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You know national defense. Don't you think Republicans win that too? Like I haven't seen the numbers recently but I think so, right? So this would mean that Republicans are better on fiscal things. I think you could call that the economy, fiscal handling, energy, the environment, immigration, crime and homeland defense. And the election is still going to be close. Thank goodness for mail-in voting…

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e. And he did all the right things. So Pence — I'm going to say it for the millionth time because I love it when somebody just does all the right things and then they just keep doing it — Pence is probably the most reasonable, grounded patriot of all time. Like the fact that he stays in his lane and just masters his domain. I know that's a funny reference but he's sort of a master of his domain. And like even the thing that we laugh at him the most, that he wouldn't go to lunch with a woman unless his wife was there. Totally right. Totally. Pence was so right about that. The Pence rule. Don't do something with a woman who's not your wife. Totally right. Like but nobody's been more right than that ever in the history of rightness. Simple. Okay well he's playing the odds right I think.

All right well we have to talk about mass shootings. You know I've told you that I don't like to talk about the individual shootings and crime. I don't like to give them attention and I don't have much to offer right because it's always the same argument. It's just a different shooting. But I'm going to make one alarming prediction. We see already that the number of mass shootings is starting to really hockey stick up, right? Everybody sees it now. Like the number of mass shootings is just climbing. That is not going to stop. Do you know why? Do you know why the number of mass shootings is going to skyrocket? Not because of gun ownership. Not because of gun ownership. I mean it requires gun ownership. It wouldn't happen without it. But it's not the reason it's going to skyrocket.

All right I'm just going to say the same thing that I said on Twitter. Men know. Men know. Women don't know what's happening. Women are completely confused. Do you know why women are confused? Because they don't give a about men. That's the whole reason. Women don't care anything about men. What they think, what they feel, what their situation in society is and how it's basically going to crap. You have an entire gender who don't have any hope. They don't think they're going to date because Tinder took away their dating options because only the top 10 date. You can't date. So if you can't date you can't get married. You can't afford getting married. You can't have a kid. And if you did you would be the third-class citizen in the marriage. You would be less important than the wife, less important than the kids, less important than the dog. And that's what men have to look forward to.

Men have what they have to look forward to is putting a lot of investment in something that won't pay off. There's no longer a path for men. Now that might be true for women as well. I don't know. Because the same way that women don't have a full appreciation for men, men don't have a full appreciation for women and vice versa. And whites and blacks and everybody else. Young and old. Actually young and old is the only one where I think the old can still have some appreciation for the young because at least they used to be young. So that might be the one time that somebody can understand the other category. Old people can sometimes understand young people but not totally.

So everything that I see suggests that the number of men who have no hope and just want to do something exciting before they die are going to do this. And that doesn't explain all of them. You know some of them are just beef at work and some of them are crazy people and all that. But I think you're going to see like the bottom 10 percent of men who just don't have any hope but they do have access to guns and they're just going to make themselves important because society has made them unimportant.

So let me ask you that. So my take is that nobody cares about men and they know it. We all know it. And that they don't have hope anymore because society has changed. Women don't really need men and women have stopped wanting to have babies and men can't afford to be the sole breadwinner. So are you all buying this? You know what's interesting? I don't see anybody pushing back. I see no pushback right now.

I'm going to go further and say that men generally understand this. Women probably only understand it because they're hearing it and it sort of makes sense when you hear it. But did you know this? How many of you women understood that the situation for men is beyond dire? You know dire is where you just you're uncomfortable and you know it's serious. We're all the way to men are just going to kill themselves and as many people as they can kill at the same time because they don't give a darn.

See how well I did that? That was totally a place where I would have sworn if this were not 2023. I totally would have let loose a whole tirade of horrible words but I did not. I held back. I held back. It wasn't easy.

All right so mass shootings, you should expect them to skyrocket and expect that nobody will do anything about it because nobody cares about men. They'll just go after the guns.

Here's a simulation alert. So you know the Schiff and Swalwell got kicked off the Intel committee. McCarthy did a pretty awesome job talking to reporters in public and telling them why he kicked those two people off. And I think most Republican-leaning people looked at that and said yep that is what we wanted. That is exactly why we want you to be in charge. If you're happy with McCarthy, if you are, that's why. He gave the right answer. He basically said you know they're available for other committees. We're not saying that they can't be in Congress. That's not up to us. We're just saying this one specific thing requires somebody who are not gigantic liars. And those two proved that they lied to the country about classified information. They didn't just lie in general which would be everybody in Congress. They lied about the stuff that only they could see.

Now that was more Schiff. I don't know what the Swalwell spy thing is. Now I'm going to go with Matt Gaetz on that. That maybe we're making too much of

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that because that happened a long time ago and it wasn't when he was in Congress. So you can use your own judgment about that. The only thing I'd like to add to this conversation and I haven't heard anybody do it is that we make fun of Swalwell allegedly having gas on camera. That didn't really happen but it's a funny story. And we of course we make fun of Schiff because his last name reminds us…

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