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hot. Well anyway, the mascot went to the hospital. And I'm wondering how that job was described to the mascot. You know, was there a meeting beforehand in which the mascot probably has a boss, right? There's a boss of the mascots. And the boss was like, hey, we've got the best idea. You're gonna love this. And the mascot says, great, great, what is it, what is it? It goes, you're going to share th…

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r what Chris Christie's policies are? No, you don't. Nobody knows. I mean some Republican stuff I guess. How about that Mike Pence? Who just took him right out of the news.

So I don't know what the Democrats are thinking. Are they thinking this is a good play? Because on day one it looked like it was. I have to admit on day one when I heard all the charges and the 37 charges and the pictures of the boxes in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, I thought to myself, oh that's worse than I thought. All this time I thought it was going to be no big deal but it's oh, it's so much worse. And it took exactly what, 48 hours for Dershowitz and Turley to weigh in, two people that I trust on this stuff, to basically say nah, it's another one of those walls closing in and not much to look at here. Now it'll be interesting and the process has to play through, but I don't think there's a risk. It looks like they just found the only way that you could guarantee Trump would get elected.

Now some would say that's their plan, Scott. Their entire plan is to look incompetent and look like liars until Republicans nominate Trump and then they can beat him easily because he's so beatable in the general. I like him. Let me ask you this. If Trump quit today, which will never happen, and DeSantis became the presumptive nominee, how long would it take for DeSantis to be accused of something equally bad, different but just equally bad? About a minute. Yeah, DeSantis would immediately become the anti-LGBTQ Hitler or Mussolini because they like to keep it nice and racist. That's how the Democrats like it, nice and racist. Call him Mussolini because he's Italian. So all right, well keep an eye on that but it sure looks like they're trying to get Trump elected.

All right. George Soros has retired, I guess you could call it that, and handed over control of his charitable stuff to his 37-year-old son. I guess he's got two sons and it was not obvious that the younger one would take over. Now you say to yourself, well Scott that makes no difference whatsoever because the son is radicalized by the father and the son will just carry on. And maybe the son was in charge for a long time anyway. Maybe there's no difference at all. And maybe you're totally right.

However, I would like to inject this little note of optimism. So Alex Soros is his name, the son. And you know he does say that defeating Trump is still important. You know he was definitely going to be political and even more political. And he says as long as money is part of the process, money will be part of the process. He'll be part of that money process. However, here's something he said that I feel gives you cause for hope. He says that he's a Bill Maher Republican. And he said he went to bed watching Bill Maher at night. So now you have a pretty good shorthand for where he is politically. Are you worried about that? Would you be worried? Let's say it's true. Let's say it's true. And I don't think you'd make that up, right? That doesn't sound like something you just come up with to sound good or something like that. That sounds real. My guess is he's genuinely a fan of Bill Maher.

What is Bill Maher's opinion of the liberal prosecutors? Do you know his opinion? It's not a Democrat opinion. Bill Maher says it's gone too far and that the cities are hellholes. And I'm sure that you would think that the prosecutors are some part of that problem. So does that mean that Alex Soros might be influenced by the Bill Maher position that things have gone too far and that the craziness level has just reached an unsustainable level for the republic? What do you think? Give me. All right, I'm just going to poll you. If you think that he's going to agree more with George or Bill, just say George or Bill. Who do you think is going to be more influenced by? George's father George Soros or Bill Maher? Just show me in the comments. See, mostly George's. And that wouldn't be surprising, right? You'd expect the father to have a big impact. And some say Bill. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. It looks like a 75 George, 25 Bill coincidence. You could be right.

Now I do think that George will be influential on all the things that he already agrees with. For example, I think the fact that George Soros was a Democrat largely guarantees that Alex will be one, has been one, will continue to be one. So I would say I would agree that George Soros is the primary influence because he's going to do some Democrat liberal stuff with his m

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oney. Well I would say that Bill Maher is going to be more influential on a narrow question such as the prosecutors. Now that doesn't mean he'll stop funding them because I've always thought that the funding was sort of indirect. You know, I don't think he wanted these specific outcomes. He just got them. So I'm gonna say that the son will, here's my prediction, that the son will modify the thing…

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