 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody, welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Monday, Monday, November 6th. I hope everybody is looking forward to a fantastic week. You had a great weekend. And ready for a bunch of Iran Brookshows. Well, maybe not a bunch this week as I am traveling. I hope to see some of you tomorrow at the University of Illinois-Champaign, where I'm giving a talk. And then on Wednesday at the University of Chicago, I'm not sure if that's open to the public or not. And then in Utah on Thursday, and then in Denver on Friday, I know that one's not open to the public. But I hope to see some of you anyway, because some of you might be participants in the program where I'm speaking in Denver. So who knows? And I know that some of you I will meet in Denver anyway. All right, let's see. Just to remind you, the Iran Rain Institute is a sponsor of the show. 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But in particular, the left in anti-Semitism and broadly on anti-Semitism, it causes its source and all of that. But in particular, we'll talk about why the left has become and manifests such anti-Semitism. So please join us. And if you're applying for the scholarship, please do it through the Einwand.org start here, because then they'll see that my pitching it on the show is helping, and they'll continue to sponsor the show. So we have to show them that they're getting a benefit. Yes, let's start with domestic politics. A bunch of polls came out this morning, over the weekend really, with regard to the 2024 presidential election. And they basically show, the polls show across the board that Biden is struggling, really, really, really struggling. People don't like him. Even Democrats don't like him. You know, whoops, what's going on here? Something is not working. Huh, weird. Let me see if I can get it to work. All right, it'll start working anyway. Even Democrats don't particularly like him, a significant percentage of Americans think that Biden is just too old. Most of them also blame him for a bad economy, for inflation, for the at least perceived loss of standard of living. So Biden generally, whoops, we've got internet, internet disruption. So it's not just here. It's just the internet has gone. What the hell? What the hell is happening? You guys there? Anybody there? No, doesn't look like anybody is there. Doesn't look like anybody is there. This is frozen too. OK, we're back. So we are back, I think. Let me know if we're back. Let me know if you can hear anything. Still on, still on. We hear you. I'm here. We are here in chat. OK. The question is, is it streaming, guys? Can you tell if it's streaming? Let me go all the way, raise my hand, go down. All right, just a momentary disruption. It felt like it was much more than a momentary destruction. Anyway, I closed a bunch of windows on me. Once I let me just regroup here one minute and go to history. There we go. All right. So as I say, Biden is too old. The number of people saying is too old, plus 42. 42% more people say he's too old than he's not. So really struggle. In a question, do you think Joe Biden's policy have helped you personally or hurt you personally? Hurt plus 17%. 17% more people think he hurt them than otherwise. Under 30, Biden still wins, if you will, but only by six points. He can't win a general election if he's only beating Trump or whoever by six points in the under 30. That is his constituency. That is the group he relies on. He depends on. He needs to win that by double digits. Otherwise, he can't win. With old people, Trump beats Biden easily among older people. So he can't make it. Hispanic voters, Biden is beating Trump by 12 points. But he beat him by a lot more than that in 2020. So Trump keeps picking up between 2016 and 2020. Trump picked up a lot of Latino votes, Hispanic votes, and now he's picking up even more of those points. And by 24 points, the most important issue to everybody is economics, and they think that he's done a poor job in economics. What's interesting, though, which hurts Republicans but might not play into the presidential race but could play into House and Senate races, is by 31 points, Americans favor having abortion legal. That is, should abortion be legal? 31 points, which is a huge advantage that is pro-keeping abortion legal. So that is going to be an issue that will continue to hurt Democrats, even if it doesn't could Biden specifically in a contest versus Trump. It would be interesting if Trump won, and I mean, it would be interesting. It would be a disaster. But if Trump won and the Democrats won the House and Senate, or at least the House, and put a veto on much of what Trump was doing, but we would just be a zoo. It would just be a zoo if that actually happened. Anyway, these polls, the polls show several polls, not just two polls, two big polls, show Trump leads Biden in five critical states, and five states that Biden won in 2020. Trump is now leading him in those states. Now, we're a year away from the election. Anything can happen in that year. But the reality is that Trump is beating Biden pretty much across the board. And he beats him in Nevada by a lot. He beats him in Georgia, in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, and in Michigan. And they're basically tied in Wisconsin. So it really does look like right now, if the election was held right now, Trump could beat Biden. Unfortunately, the real sad thing about this is that polls like this will just strengthen Trump's position in the primaries. Because the big argument not to vote for Trump in the primaries is that he lost to Biden already once. And in Nikki Haley seems to poll even better than Trump versus Biden. And so does the Santas. But if these polls hold up, then that argument goes away. He can convince people that he can beat Biden. I still think that if everybody who is against Trump actually goes out and votes against Trump, that is for Biden, not because they support Biden, but because they dislike Trump, I think Trump loses. But given how much people dislike Biden, I think what mainly happens is a lot of people stay home. And the consequence of a lot of people staying home is Trump gets elected. And that, again, it's still a year. There are all the lawsuits. There are some lawsuits that are really, really problematic for Trump. He might be in jail. There's a lot of issues here, but it definitely seems like Trump has the energy behind him. Voters seem to think that the economy would do better under Trump. Voters also seem to think that there would be more peace in the world under Trump. The second one is probably true, because we would sell out to our enemies, and there would be peace. Yeah, and it is interesting how the uncertainty in the world right now and Biden's real challenges are hooting him. And of course, one of the things that's going to hood Biden, and this is a real challenge that he faces around the Israel Hamas war, is that right now, his position is alienating Arab-Americans who are a significant voting block in places like Michigan, which he needs in order to win. And that group is alienated. They might not vote for a Republican, but they might stay home. And in Michigan, in a close election in Michigan, that might be the difference between Biden winning and Biden losing. But he is also alienating, and not so much him, but the Democratic Party as a party is alienating the Jewish vote. And God, Biden needs the Jewish vote in order to win in not just Michigan, but in Georgia, in a number of different places. He needs the Jewish vote, but he is probably, the Democratic Party is alienating. Now, whether they will still vote for Biden and maybe vote against Democrats down ticket is hard to tell. You know, the squad now, the far leftists, Democrats are all going to have challenges in primaries and the Democratic primaries. They're all going to be challenged by other Democrats. There is a real movement to try to get them out of Congress. We'll see. The districts are far left, so they might actually win. But there is a real challenge now, and this is a long-term phenomena that I'm sure we'll talk about it in the future episodes. There's a real challenge right now to keep the Democratic Party together. This is the topic on Democratic divided, which should have been next to the Biden versus Trump, but stuck in the end. The reality is right now that the Democratic Party is being torn apart not only by Biden's age and by Biden's incompetence and by the economic numbers, but what's really tearing it apart right now is the war between Hamas and Israel. There is a significant pro-Palestinian group within the Democratic Party. They are outraged at the rising death toll in Gaza. On the other hand, many liberal Jews are furious that so many progressive Democrats aren't more outraged by the slaughter of October 7th. Within the DNC, we've had 300 employees sign a letter asking their boss to demand a ceasefire. A junior state department foreign affairs officer has sent a massive internal email to organize a dissent cable on the administration's Israel policy, so there's real dissent within the administration. More and more, every day, Democratic House members are coming out against Biden's policy pro-Israeli policy. We've got at least five of the liberal House members. This is a squad I told you about a minute ago. We're going to face primary challenges. That's Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Kori Bush, Summer Lee, and Jamal Bulman, to a large extent because of the Israel stance that they have taken. The money on the pro-Israel side is pouring in. Tlaib has accused the Biden administration and the Biden of supporting genocide of Palestinians. And Chris Murphy, the Democratic-Connecticut, a chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, said that Israel's current operational approach is causing an unacceptable level of civilian harm, again demanding a ceasefire. On college campuses, of course, we're seeing the extent to which Democratic politics among young people who might not vote for Biden. These young people might not vote for Biden because he is too pro-Israel. So we're seeing a huge pro-Palestinian move on the part of young people. Young people are getting more and more of their news from TikTok. As I described last week, TikTok is overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian in terms of its content. And it really does look like this is going to be an issue that is going to have real electoral power, is going to really hurt Biden. And it's going to alienate the party. This is a significant issue right now. It's splitting the party really in significant ways. In a Quinnipiac poll that was out on Thursday, respondents were asked, do you approve or disapprove of the way Israel is responding to the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack? Overall, half approved and 35% disapproved. But only 32% of respondents age 18 to 34 approved the visual response. That is, young people overwhelmingly are anti-Israel, an anti-Israeli response. And Democrats disapprove of the response, disapprove of the Israeli response, 49 to 33. It's Republicans who overwhelmingly approve of what Israel is doing. So again, the Biden administration is basically acting against 49% of his own party. And he's only getting the support of 33%. I don't think this is probably being caught in these polls that show less and less support for Biden. And I think this is only going to get worse, not better as things evolve, as things move forward in Gaza. I don't see Israel moderating anytime soon, although we'll ultimately be forced to do the Biden administration will shift. It will turn pro-Palestinian. It'll turn pro-Pacific fire very quickly here. It's a matter of days. Israel knows this. It's trying to go as fast as it can now. It, of course, wasted three weeks of pandering to the Americans instead of going in force right in the beginning. And because Netanyahu was afraid, but it's going to have very little time to do what is necessary. All right, we'll get to Israel in a minute. Quickly on Argentina. Argentina elections are in two weeks, literally in two weeks. And that is on November 19th. You get a run-off election between Sergio Massa, the political representative of the existing political party, of the people in power today in Argentina that have brought about the complete and utter mess and disaster that exists in Argentina today. And Javier Millay, who is a self-described libertarian, self-described ANCAP, self-described revolutionary. And it's going to be fascinating. Right now, the polls have them very, very close. It really is all going to depend on who the conservatives, the people who voted for the conservative party member, ultimately vote for in this election. Do they go with the existing guy, the Peronist existing kind of left-leaning political party? Do they go with status quo? Or do they go with what are probably resulting in complete chaos but with radical change, with a radical shift, with somebody new and completely different, an economist who promises them to get rid of the peso and replace it with a dollar? So in the first round, the leftist, the Peronist, got 36.7% of the vote. And Millay got 30% of the vote. And the question is now, what happens with that other 33% of the vote? How does it split? Who gets it? Who gets it? And the conservative basically endorsed Millay, but that doesn't mean her voters are going to follow suit. Other politicians who ran or tend to be further to the left, they're going to all vote for the status quo candidate. The real question is going to be how the conservative vote. It was a significant voter block. And anyway, and turn out what matter and who votes. Millay is a huge favorite among the young. He gets 54% of the vote among 16 to 35-year-olds. He does very badly with 56-plus-year-olds. Again, it is the young who are willing to be radical. It is the young who are willing to make dramatic changes, the old, a status quo biased. Although you would think that the old know how bad things have been in Argentina for how long and would be open for some dramatic change. What have they got to lose? It's not going to get worse than it is now. It's interesting, though, because while the old prefer the status quo candidate, a significant number of them, about 20% of them, basically saying they're not going to vote. So they're not happy with the existing candidate, but they're not willing to be radical either. 12% say they haven't decided yet. But with the young, Millay gets well over 50% and is solid. He's got his work cut out for him. And unfortunately, he's got very significant negatives, just like negative appeal from people, just like Biden and just like Trump. I mean, Biden and Trump, it doesn't matter who wins, they're going to be immediately disliked by 50% of the population. That is, they both have unbelievable negatives. It's like the only reason people are going to vote for one or the other is because they hate the other guy more. It's all about the less of two evils. We do not have on the ballot, it doesn't appear that we're going to have a candidate that a significant number of Americans actually say, yes, I actually like this guy, I actually like this person. I want to vote for him. I'm excited about voting for him. I mean, clearly, about 25% to 50% of Republicans think that about Trump, but that's about it. Nobody else thinks that about Trump. Maybe it's 50% of Republicans. That's what he's polling at among Republicans. All right, so that's where we are. We got an important election in two weeks. It's going to be interesting. There are, by the way, elections in the US tomorrow, which are going to be interesting. Some elections in Virginia, an abortion ballot in Ohio, a Republican state, a red state, but something to put into the, I think, the Constitution, the right to abortion. There are going to be some other interesting races tomorrow that hopefully we'll be able to comment on on Wednesday once we get the results on those. All right, finally, let's talk about what's happening in Gaza. Israel, as you probably know, we've talked about this, has in so-called Gaza City in the northern Gaza, so the whole, so it's basically split Gaza into two. It is told for days and days and days, well over a week, the residents in the north to go south, and about two-thirds of them actually listened, but there's still hundreds of thousands of civilians in the north in Gaza City and neighboring towns. Israel is now cut off Gaza City and the northern Gaza strip from the south. It basically has reached the Mediterranean, so it has a corridor in which it is functioning from Israel to the Mediterranean between north and south Gaza. It's also taken over a significant amount of territory in the north of the Gaza strip and is slowly moving into more and more built-up areas, slowly moving into areas in which it's going to have to engage in very close combat. That combat is already happening. All accounts that I'm reading suggest that there was intense fighting on the ground. Israel took a significant position, the Hamas had, near the shore, but it's going to be brutal. They are trying to close tunnels. They're trying to collapse tunnels. Also overnight, the last two nights, we've seen some of the most intense bombing of Gaza City since the beginning of the war. Hundreds of targets are being hit and destroyed. Again, the consequence of this are going to be a lot of civilian casualties. As this happens, you're going to see more and more and more and more pressure on Israel to stop, to ceasefire, to withdraw from the Gaza, to negotiate something. And Israel at some point will be unable to resist that of my predictions so far. They're trying to buy as much time as they can. Now, I don't think they have to capitulate. I think they could do what's necessary. But I think knowing Israel, knowing Netanyahu, knowing the people in his government, he will capitulate. He will capitulate to the west. And there will be a ceasefire at some point. The question is, how much can Israel do before that? Anyway, they are collapsing tunnels, destroying tunnels. They are moving into Gaza City. There will be more intense fighting, more significant Israeli casualties as the days progress here. There are already over 30 Israeli soldiers have died since Israel entered the Gaza Strip. But so we will see what happens in the days to come. But this is a very urban warfare. Urban warfare with tunnels is a very, very difficult warfare. And it's a very, very bloody warfare. And it's going to be very, very difficult for the Israeli Defense Forces to move forward and to achieve all its goals. Particularly given the intense pressures under to preserve civilian lives, not to destroy civilians. So to play by the so-called rules of war. So we will see how it evolves. And again, I will keep you updated. Some additional things. There have been some clashes between Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank and Israeli forces. Israel has killed a number of Hamas operatives in the West Bank. And on the West Bank, there continues to be fighting. Nothing too dramatic and a lot less than what I think were some of the worst fears. Iran, of course, and many others have called on the West Bank to rise up against Israel. You're not seeing an uprising. Most of these battles are Israel venturing in to heavily populated parts of the West Bank to capture or kill Hamas or other terrorist operatives. It's not a consequence of some kind of uprising on the West Bank that is not happening in spite of the cause. On the northern front, it seems like there is some escalation. Hezbollah is more aggressive. Or at least, it's not clear if it's Hezbollah or it might be elements of Hamas that are in Lebanon that are more active. Just about two hours ago, the 30 missiles were launched out of Lebanon, basically targeting, but this is reality, basically targeting my parents' place in Haifa. I don't think they quite made it to Haifa. They were all really knocked down. And I'm not sure they made it that far south, but they were also all in that direction, basically, of where my family lives. My family lives on the side of the mountain, ultimately facing Lebanon. So it would be in direct sight. But they launched about 30 of these. Israel used both the arrow and the iron dome to knock those down. I haven't seen any reports of damage or casualties as a consequence of this. But of course, those reports lag. And this was literally breaking news before we talked. It does seem like Israel aircraft, artillery, and tanks are basically attacking Hezbollah positions at the Lebanon in response to the rocket barrage. I still will reaffirm what I said at the beginning of all of this. Israel needs to take Hezbollah out. They cannot just wait and do it on the terms that Hezbollah wants. They need to, without any slowdown, they need to tell the Lebanese civilians to evacuate to north of the Tani River, to the north of the southern Lebanese area. And they need to basically turn that entire area into a parking lot. They need to destroy it. They need to make it impossible for Hamas to operate there. They need to put so much fire on the ground that Hamas cannot launch missiles, cannot operate. They need to go after every single ammunition storage facility Hezbollah has. They know where they are. They need to launch attacks and destroy them all. And yes, again, civilians will be hurt. They need to send a very clear message to the Lebanese government. They don't want Lebanese civilians hurt. The Lebanese government needs to send troops to southern Lebanon and to stop Hezbollah and Hamas from using their territory to attack Israel. And until they do that, Israel will never be in peace. There will never be peace. Hezbollah has to be destroyed just like Hamas. It is hopefully, hopefully, on the verge of being destroyed. By the way, Israel is now releasing photographs of rocket launching sites, munitions, stockpiles in the Gaza Strip used by Hamas. And all of these are inside mosques, residential buildings. As if anybody needed proof, as if anybody needed proof, in schools, child centers, Israel is now publishing videos and photos. Won't change anybody's mind, of course. But it's good to get the evidence out there. It's good to have it in photographs. Everybody will say that the Israelis are just doctoring it and making this up. Or, as the left says, what choice does Hamas have? Israel has better weapons. Hamas needs to use whatever tools they have. And if that means civilian shields hiding behind civilians, so be it a choice that they have. All right. Finally, much of this war, suddenly the, let me just see if I covered everything. Yeah, I mean, just one other point I'll make. Hamas' political head, bureau chairman, Ismail Hananya, Hanaya, who should have been killed years and years and years and years ago. He keeps traveling around, meeting with heads of state. He's in Iran right now. He lives in Qatar in a beautiful hotel suite. A lot of the money that the Biden administration and others have pumped into the Saudis and the Iranians and the Qataris and the UAE and all these other countries have given to Palestinians. And Hamas, over the years, has gone into his pocket to sustain his lifestyle. This guy travels all over the place representing Hamas. It is time that somebody put a bullet between his eyes. It is time that whatever plane he is on be knocked out of the sky. It is time for this guy to die. It is time for Israel to make real its commitment to destroy Hamas, including the political wing of Hamas, to destroy everything about Hamas. And as long as Israel tolerates this, is willing to let these so-called pretend murderous genocidal diplomats travel around the world under the guise of Hamas, Israel cannot win. It has to finally stand up and kill these people as part of the destruction from the ground up of Hamas. It's not enough to kill the soldiers. You need to kill the imams who are preaching this, who are inciting the violence. And you need to kill the political leaders who are making this possible. In that sense, I think mosques should be targeted because they're mosques. Because they are the places in which the violence is incited. And the violence is incited in the name of Islam. The violence is not incited in the name of nationalism. Hamas does not want a Palestinian state. Hamas wants a caliphate. Hamas wants an empire. Hamas wants Islam to dominate the world. Israel and killing Israel is just one step towards more. Mosques are, at least in Gaza, mosques are the hub of what Hamas is all about. It's time that the West recognize that the enemy here is not just people with guns. The enemy here is the Islamic totalitarian ideology that Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda all represent. And of course, the regime in Iran all represents and supports. The Taliban, another part of that. So anyway, I have no problem in targeting mosques in this context. I've been warned now by Richard that I'm now on the edge of inciting violence and YouTube might not like it. OK, let's see. Let's see what the borders is of YouTube. I'm providing what I think is the appropriate strategy. Mosques are legit targets, given that that's the inspiration that is the violence, the inspiration for the incitement towards violence. Not to mention the fact that they used to store weapons and all of that stuff. All right, what else? Yes, I was going to say this war is also a propaganda war, and it's being fought online. And in this war, Israel faces a number of big challenges. And the big challenge is that it's not just Hamas that they have to deal with. It's Hamas in the entire Arab world, which and Iran, who have become very good online, very good in using social media to promote their cause, very good in spreading the ideology and spreading their lies. But it's not just the Arab world. Clearly, there are two powers out there with a strong incentive to amplify what Hamas is trying to get across, the propaganda that Hamas is trying to get across. And those two powers are Russia and China. And Russia and China are a response of a massive deluge of online propaganda misinformation. Thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of bots, I think their last count, 40,000 bots have gone online since the Hamas attack, all spewing propaganda that is being from Hamas. And this is the kind of effort that you would expect. Only the Russians and the Chinese can really manifest. And of course, the Russian and Chinese, particularly the Russians, are world class at this. They are the best at this. They've been doing this vis-a-vis American politics for a very long time. And there is a massive, massive, massive campaign right now that they're engaged in. And of course, in America, the left is embracing this, retreating, resupporting, spreading these ideas out, making sure that this propaganda is leveraged, making sure that they buy into it completely, and are using the internet. So there's a sense in which it's not just China and Russia, it's also the United States, or at least people in the United States that are helping promote this. And then on top of that, you've got even people on the right, like Candace Owen and others, who are spreading this garbage out there, this anti-American, anti-Israeli propaganda out there. Just be aware, there is a lot of content out there that is being pushed on you by Chinese and Russians, and ultimately by Hamas. The way to combat this is to help push good material. It is a war for the eyeballs and for the minds of young people who get everything they know on social media. So please use your social media to the extent that you can to promote good content. By the way, Ben Shapiro is excellent on the Israeli Hamas issue. There are others who are excellent. Michael Schurma is very good. David Deutsch, David Deutsch the perperian, is very, very good on the Israeli Hamas issue. Those are the voices you should be promoting and use it. Even Steven Pink is good on this. So use this to retweet, repost, share, do whatever you can. Of course, my material, please do my material. But repost it and share and get it out there, because it's really, really, really important that we counter the propaganda that the left and some elements of the right are reinforcing that is coming from Hamas. Of course, the other party that is constantly reinforcing Hamas talking points are good friends, the libertarians. All right, cool. 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I know Jonathan Honing did a sticker earlier as well. Yeah, right at the beginning, as did Silvanos. So they're responsible for us being so close to the target. So if you want to do a sticker, $2, $5, $10, $100, whatever you think this show is worth, value for value, please come in, use that button below with a dollar sign to support the show. I really, really, really, really, really appreciate it. Thank you. All right, let's take. I've only got three questions, so this is going to go very fast. If you're going to support the show, do it now. Otherwise, it will be too late. Silvanos says, I encountered a troubling claim that baby-supported Hamas, under the table, back when Gaza first held elections to maintain the territorial bogeyman status quo and thoughts, is baby capable of such extreme cynicism? I don't think BB was prime minister then. So this claim about BB doing it is just false. Now, is it true that Israel helped found the Hamas? Is it true that Israel helped found the Hamas to be an alternative power center to the PLO? Yes, that is absolutely true. That happened in the 1980s. It did not happen under Bibi Netanyahu's watch. It happened under the watch of other Israeli prime ministers, which doesn't really matter. It's still a pretty stupid strategy, really, really bad strategy, really, really harmful strategy. But it is a reality. It is true. The idea was that the PLO was the enemy. Yes, Al-Fad was the enemy. And they believed, as so many people believe, that religion is peaceful, that Islam would be peaceful. This is really before the Interfadas, before ISIS and al-Qaeda, but they still should have known better God. They should have known better. They believed that by supporting the creation of Hamas, they would bring an alternative voice to the negotiating table other than the PLOs. What they got is a voice that's 1,000 times more militant than the PLO ever was, much more committed because it has God on their side. And it landed up backfiring in dramatic force. I don't think that makes any difference. It doesn't change the nature of Hamas. It doesn't change the reality that Israel must eliminate Hamas from the earth, must eliminate the threat that it poses to its own citizens. It doesn't matter. Any Israeli government should do this, no matter what. But it is a reality, and it is a reality that should show you and emphasize to you the real, real, real, real evil of pragmatism, the real, real evil of the enemy of my enemy is somehow my friend. This is what the Americans should have learned when the Reagan administration supported al-Qaeda or the beginnings of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s because they were fighting the Soviets. This is what we should have realized over and over again as we support bad people in fight for other bad people. Those bad people we support originally will turn and bite us. They will turn and come after us. You cannot win that way. You have to stand for principle, and you have to fight on the side of good. You cannot create a big umbrella with evil and hope to come out of it unscathed. This is just one more lesson in that. So it doesn't change anything, though, in terms of the morality of what needs to be done. All right, we have two questions left, $2 to make our goal, $2. Jason says, for $5 of fun, imagine a magic wand. Would you rather have Christie Haley on GOP ticket, even if Dems choose Warner Porter for a healthier debate? Yeah, but I'd want Haley to be on the top of the ticket. I don't like Chris Christie. And once Chris Christie stops, once Trump is gone, this is a fantasy after all, then there's no need for Chris Christie. Chris Christie's only function is to serve as an attack dog on Trump. So I would like to see Nikki Haley choose somebody different than Chris Christie, somebody who could solidify one of the swing states for her, maybe somebody out of Georgia, maybe somebody out of Michigan, maybe somebody out of Arizona. Hard to exactly tell, but I don't think Chris Christie helps her. And she needs to get somebody who has at least perceived more conservative than her and is from a swing state that he needs to have to capture. So I'm hopeful that it's Haley and somebody in this disaster. And yes, that would be a much healthier debate. There is no debate when Trump is on stage. It's just an insult match. It's imagine who can insult whom. Frank says, your family lives near Mount Carmel Park. There's no Mount Carmel Park. My family lives on the Mount Carmel, on the Carmel Mountain. I grew up on the Carmel Mountain. And yeah, so I don't want to say more than that. It's just the way my family lives. It's irrelevant. But that is the way my family lives, Frank. 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