Ep. 2050 - Trump Secures Huge Win In The Supreme Court

This episode is brought to you by Cardiff America's favorite small business lender with over 12 billion fundits since 2004 applying under three minutes for same day funding up to 500,000 at Cardiff.co/noles. Okay, I'm still on the road in Europe in my super secret project that I can't tell you about, but probably you'll know a lot about it soon. I will be back in the studio in a couple of days at most. Who knows? Maybe sooner, but I have to come to you because of the major news for the Supreme Court that President Trump gets his ballroom, and though this case is actually about a lot more than just President Trump and certainly about a lot more than a ballroom. If you haven't followed it, I've given some updates on it, but it's such a stupid story that it actually bothers me to talk about it. President Trump is trying to build a ballroom at the White House. I've been to the White House a handful of times. It's great. It's a lovely, but it's an older building and they host a lot of functions. I've never been invited to a state dinner or anything like that, but from what I hear, it's kind of small and they have a difficulty doing that and they have to erect all sorts of tents on the lawn and then it rains and it's just not the sort of thing that the global headgemon should do. It seems to me reasonable to think that the global headgemon, the greatest country on earth, should be able to have a place for dinner. Right? Seems pretty easy. But no, if Trump says this guy is blue, Democrats have to say it's orange. If Trump says that the moon is made of rock, they have to say that it's made of green cheese. So he goes to build this nice ballroom and the Democrats make a big fuss about it. This works its way up to the Supreme Court. Now you can say how does even make it to the Supreme Court? Well, the people who claim to have standing are the national trust for historic preservation. And that's the key to this case, because after months and months of all this fighting about it, in a five, four split decision, you got the conservatives in the majority, you have the liberals plus John Roberts. Again, in the minority, you have Trump winning this case. And the argument that the majority made was not even ruling so much on the substance of the case, but rather staying this lower court ruling that was stopping the construction because the president of the United States thought the White House should have a ballroom. The reason the argument of the majority was that the national trust for historic preservation does not have standing to go in and stop the president from redecorating the White House. The argument from the national trust for historic preservation was basically that when I'm walking along Pennsylvania Avenue, I can sometimes squint and see the east wing of the White House. And so I have a right to tell you what sort of renovations you can make. It's like, it's like the most super duper care in HOA kind of busy body that you've ever seen in your life. And the court ruled, no, you don't have the right to do that. And the court, the lower courts, don't have the right to impose this undupert that would make the renovation much more costly, and that would, you know, call into question, it's ultimate success. You don't have the right to do that. And so I think the real key here, forget about the ballroom for a second, though there is more to say about that. The real key here is who should have more power in a democratic republic such as ours? Should the duly elected president, who basically won the popular vote, have a little power, not over everything, not to be a totalitarian dictator, not to be an authoritarian ruler, but to like, at least renovate the White House a little bit, just like a little bit so that people can have dinner there when the prime minister of Uzbekistan comes over if it did. Can the president at least do that? Those people on the one hand, and then the people who say no, one federal judge of 700 ought to be able effectively to overturn a presidential election. No, one organization, the national trust for historic preservation, ought to overrule the president of the United States when it comes to a ballroom. By the way, this point in the ballroom is really key here because it's not just a ballroom. And this is the historical context that I think a lot of people were missing. The ballroom is also kind of a military facility. So the history of the ballroom, I don't want to belabor the point too much, but the history of the ballroom is that in 1942, the East Wing of the White House was built to cover a bomb shelter that was under FDR. Truman, who succeeded FDR, renovated the bomb shelter, and he created the presidential emergency operations center. So the Pioch had different military additions added over the decades. This is famously where the vice president Dick Cheney went on 9/11, when George W. Bush was away from Washington, D.C. It's an important facility for the US military and for the President of the United States. And from the very beginning, the whole point of the East Wing of the White House was to cover this thing. So that's a little of the history. There is nothing that Trump is doing here that's outside the scope of historical president. But I guess the reason that it matters to me politically is your reaction to this story is going to depend on where you think the threat to your liberty and the threat to your traditional way of life lies. A lot of people, especially the libertarian types, say that the real threat to your liberty lies in a president who's too powerful. I don't think that's true. I think threats to my liberty and way of life come from the deep state, from the pure, the unelected bureaucracy, from the extra governmental institutions, the big tech platforms, the controller public square, the consensus and destroy companies it will. Thank you. There's a big threat there from our educational institutions, from Congress, which at this point structurally can't really do anything. From the Supreme Court, which very often arrogance to itself, a lot of powers that it probably shouldn't have, doesn't really have a ton of checks and balances. It's just kind of the wing of the government of last resort. So I don't think the threats to our liberty and way of life are coming chiefly from the president. I think the president is pretty law on the list of threats to our liberty. And so I think by beefing up the powers of the president, at least over like pretty basic stuff like can you renovate a room of the White House or a wing of the White House? 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He's just a podcaster who I've invited to campaign with me. Oh, stop asking me about him. I don't want to answer questions about it. Bernie Sanders, the same thing. The man who would have gotten the nomination had the DNC not rigged it for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders said, "Do we have the club? Show the club." Republicans clearly have a strategy to turn him into a bogeyman. I'm wondering, are Democrats taking the bait here over what we're saying? I mean, apparently it works when you and others will talk about Mr. Piker. He is a podcaster. Okay. On top of that, you get a son, Piker. Reportedly, I don't know, I don't really follow him, but he's reportedly deleted Twitter from his phone. I deleted Twitter off my phone. Finally, I'm going back to the basics. It's working. And now, Bernie and these other Democrats are saying, there's an operation, a political campaign underway to try to make it seem like a son, Piker, is anything more than a Twitch stream or a podcaster. He doesn't have any real influence. Come on. That's a Republican opposite. Was it Republicans who invited him to campaign with you? Was it the Republicans? I thought it actually was all of the top Democrats, specifically of the Abdul Al-Sahed, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mom Donnie wing of the party. They're the ones who invite a son, Piker out. They're the ones who go on a son, Piker show. They're the ones who dab them up and give them big hugs and high fives and smile. They're the ones who did it. You're the ones who gave us an opening and you're the reason that the son, Piker, is having a very bad day and you're the reason yourselves are having a very bad day and I love it. And the Republicans are having a good day because at least for now some random nonprofit and one federal judge can't stop the president of the United States from beefing up a military center at the White House and giving foreign dignitaries a place to have dinner. Okay, there is much, much more to get to. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Breaking Mahan News, this is a big one. It affects not just politics, but it affects my household and my budget, and it will make you angry, but it also makes me happy because it proves me right. You know the seed oil thing? Sweet little Lisa, she totally seed oil-pilled me, said, "Don't we can't eat seed oils all the millennial and zoomer girls talk about it?" Bobby Kennedy ran the maha wing of the Trump campaign and brought in a lot of new voters, and that was great. A lot of it was about seed oils, so everyone starts switching to these other oils, and one of the biggest ways they've done it is without avocado oil. They're all these new products. You use avocado oil instead of potato chips made with avocado oil. I think you can get them a Costco. All these kinds of things, and they're more expensive. Sweet little Lisa says, "Mike, I want to get this stuff with the avocado oil, not the seed oil." I said, "Okay, girl, I trust you. You make the home, you, let's, we'll do it, I'll pay more for the potato chips." Well, it turns out it was all a big fraud. There's a big report just came out in men's fitness, the avocado oil scam. This, actually, in the bottle, this is based on a study that just came out of University, California, Davis found that 89% of processed foods labeled as containing avocado oil actually have different oil, so here, I'll just read the first little part of this. If you have spent the last few years buying avocado oil, mayo, check, avocado oil chips, check, avocado oil salad dressing, Lisa makes her own salad dressing, but maybe occasionally she has. Because you were trying to avoid seed oils, there's bad news and worse news. The bad news from a recent University, California, Davis analysis is that most of those products were not actually made with the oil on the label. The worst news and the part that turns this from a health story into a consumer fraud story is what they were cut with. In most cases, the cheap seed oils you were paying a premium to escape, you were not poisoned, you were overcharged and arguably conned. This is crazy. 48 out of 54 products, roughly 89% had profiles inconsistent with pure avocado oil. Of course, okay, and so what do we think? Now that this was proven to be a hoax, do the reasonable conservative people, do we say, we got to go back to rapeseed oil or what a bad marketing, by the way, it's literally called rapeseed oil, not smart, or this other kind of oil, or that other kind of oil. What are we supposed to eat? I think the most conservative view is to not get caught up in these fads. There were all these fads that pop up. Remember, there was atkins, and then it was super high protein, now proteins and everything. I have to protein in my water. And then it was keto, remember keto, for a while, and then there's the cabbage soup diet and all these different fads. Now the big one is you cut out the seed oils and you put avocado oil on everything, but you're not even getting real avocado oil. And I think the conservative approach to this is to avoid fads. The conservative is supposed to not be fatish, or supposed to not be fatish either, though. It's more conservative to be fat than to go with a fad. Anyway, I digress. You don't want to be taken in by these innovations, let's say they're going to cure all of the health problems immediately by just swapping out one weird oil, by just if you just eat a gallon of sourcrout every day, then you'll live forever. I had a different relationship to Maha than a lot of people who supported Trump in 2024 did in that I liked Maha because it brought us new votes, but that's why. You know, all these people changed their personalities every night and they said, oh, no, I'm all Maha now. And I work out all the time and I guzzle avocado oil and I love whatever. And that was me. I don't work out that much. I try to eat reasonably well, but I don't, I like to eat food that is tasty and good. And so I didn't really get into that. I like their votes. I want them to vote with us, but I never really bought into all of their extreme claims. Now, what's interesting about the oil thing is the same argument you'd make against going along with the new fads against seed oils. You could make against going along with seed oils because seed oils are relatively new. The way that we use them and just everything is relatively new in the last, what, five, six decades, maybe even a little shorter period of time. So how are we supposed to eat? It would seem to me the healthiest, most conservative, most prudent way to eat is just like eating kind of normal things in a balanced way. You know, remember like when we were a kid, they said just eat carbs all the time and sugar, but don't eat any fat. And then a few years ago, they said, no, we got it wrong. Actually, you're supposed to eat fat all the time, just, just gargle butter in the morning when you're brushing your teeth, but never touch a carbohydrate. And like obviously both of those things are wrong. Not to sound too hippie-ish. I just kind of like eat, I just eat what my body tells me to eat, man. But even down to, they say, well, you can't just have milk anymore, you got to inject your milk with a ton of protein. You don't actually. And that can cause kidney problems. So don't, you know what you could do? You know what I would strongly recommend, might take away from this other than that I've been defrauded of lots of money on potato chips. My main takeaway is we should just be normal, right, we should just be normal. And you don't have to just, you don't have to just eat like gallons of sour crowd every day along with one stick of butter and a seltzer. Like you can, you can just be normal. And also not be taken in by promises that seem too good to be true and not, and not be defrauded by conmen. Whether we're talking about the, the kind of media conmen who have one weird trick to help you live forever, political conmen or, or just actual conmen in these corporations that were charging you a lot of money for cheap potato chips. Okay, we have to move on. There's a lot more to say first though, I want to tell you about word on fire. Go to heaven in stoneenglass.com, walk through almost any modern city, eventually you encounter a building that looks like it was designed to punish you. Concrete box, fluorescent lights, maybe a sculpture outside that looks like an industrial accident, absolutely nauseous, vomitous stuff. Now imagine you walk into a Gothic cathedral. All of a sudden your eyes go up to heaven and you feel better because it's beautiful and it's pointing you toward what is good and true. 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I think this is the biggest decision a parent has to make in their child's growth and development. Period. What are the problems that people can face? What are the problems of life? A stroke of sleep happening is deadly. You can have a heart attack, a stroke. I have had patients die. If your child has or with the donics done wrong, as a child, it will plague them for the rest of their life. When we talk about Maha, make America healthy again. We talk about vaccines and food and drugs. But we ignore one issue that has bedevilled me for my entire life and it's very difficult in my job where I speak for a living and where I smoke cigars for a living, which is my chompers, my teeth, which is why I'm so pleased to be joined by Dr. Calli Hale of Toothpillow. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming. You're the Chief Dental Officer and the founder of Toothpillow and we're filming. I should know. We're filming this interview at a very special time because do you know when I usually go to the dentist? When? 230. I have not heard that one before. Actually, when I saw this schedule pop up on my calendar, I said, "This is providential." Literally living it. So I'm curious about it because a lot of people think of dentistry as sort of witchcraft where they just lie to you about how many cavities you have and rip you off. Unfortunately. But even like braces and orthodontics, sure, all that, they think of it as cosmetic. Correct. And there are all these symptoms, like real actual health symptoms that go along if you don't fix your teeth and your jaws and all of that. Absolutely. And I have suffered from almost all of them. I hate to hear that. The grinding, the spacing. I'm such a good orthodontics patient. I wear my retainer every night since eighth grade. You're right. Yes, you're a perfect patient. Thank you. But they still the teeth kind of move. And it can cause problems for your sleep, it can cause bone problems, it can cause all sorts of issues. Yes. So what is the pitch in our maha movement for a tooth pillow? That we have to make sure that our children are breathing and sleeping properly at a very young age. And a lot of people don't correlate that with your jaws or your teeth. In some of the symptoms you talked about, tooth grinding, even bed wetting outside of an appropriate age. Yeah. I've been generally, you know, maybe a late night at the bar that gave it to me, but usually I've avoided that one. But you had the breathing, the snoring, all that. Yes, everything. It starts with how is your child's jaw development happening when they're really young, meaning how are they eating food? Did they breastfeed long enough? There's all sorts of muscle development that has to happen in order to induce bone growth, drone. - This is TMI, I didn't breastfeed, I was bottle fed. I'm going, this is like a psychologist to me. - I'm here to help you. - Thank you. - Yes. - Connect all the dots. - My producer Ben Davies is a volunteer ambassador for your Broadway. - Oh, I know. - Before you ever came on partnership with the show, he told me he said, oh, I've got my kids on Toothpillow. Like it's so great. It's a more sort of natural and serious way to deal with these problems. - Yes. - So, why hasn't anyone done this before? - That is the million dollar question. And you would think that this technology is new, but it's not. I mean, these appliances in general that we use at Toothpillow have been around for 70 plus years. But you get a little politics involved, you get a little change in the education. And if that is pulled out of orthodontic residency program, you have generations of dentists that come out never hearing about it. And when I went through a very extensive postdoc education and obstructive sleep apnea, I went for adults. I went to help all these adults that I was seeing. They had all these issues, snoring, tooth grinding. They were breaking their crowns. We were crowning teeth because they were cracking their teeth. And we're just molar mechanics. We're just fixing the problem. We're not getting to the root cause of what's going on. And as I went through the education for all the adult stuff, and I was like, "Gah, Lee, it's hard when you're older to fix it and deal with it. We can do it." But it's so much easier if you can prevent it from ever happening in the first place. And once I realized that was even possible, learning it from doctors that were older than me, and had been doing it decades longer than me, yet I never heard about it one time in my dental school education. I was floored. So why is that? Because I was only 10% joking when I said a lot of dental seemed like sort of charlatans to me. Where you go in and find 150 cavities. Some guy, I go in. All these cases, you have all these cavities. I want to fix your teeth. I want to shave one down to do this that or the other. And then I go to another dentist. They say, "You don't have any cavities." And the hygienist says, "No, you don't listen to that. You find you have to do it." So why is it? Why is it that my heart surge in? I can generally sort of rely on. Do you have any choice? Yeah, right. I guess that's why. But why is it that technology that you're talking about has been left out of orthodontist education? You know what? I mean, we'd have to go back 40 years and figure out who made that decision to pull it from the education. Because now it's back like a freight train. And 10 years ago, as I was practicing this man, the rumors, the daggers in my back, the people that were like, "What is she doing selling this little mouthguard to patients?" You would, I mean, I'm sure you can imagine what it was like. And now, fast forward, they're taking my education program. They're learning from me. Which is great. I'm like, "Hey, however you get here, you need to get here." But it was, it's really sad, the generations of adults that had orthodontics during the first time. Myself included. Which is part of my passion of fixing it while they're young. And growing, it makes so much sense. I talked to somebody yesterday. They said it makes sense when you think about it. I go, "Exactly. You're growing. Your bones are developing. Your skull is growing. Your tongue is working. Your muscles. All of that. While you're still literally growing, you can make an impact in kids' jaws and breathing that will last them in lifetime." Now, I had braces as a teenager. They put it on a 12/13. A boy's head and neck. And a girl's head and neck development by 12/13 or up to 90% complete. So we wait until the foundation is pretty much solid. And we squeeze teeth into an alignment that looks good. Mom and dad paid for braces. They want straight teeth. They got straight teeth. Not ever realizing that it was going to change the way that child breathed for the rest of their life. They still pull teeth. For braces. This is still happening. Really? Oh, absolutely. Your mouth is too small. We need to take teeth out. You know why they didn't start at three or five or seven? They didn't see you till you were 14 or 13 or 12. And they say, "We don't have any way to do it without taking teeth out." That takes away so much tongue space. And it's literally precursor for sleep disorder breathing and potentially obstructive sleep apnea, as an adult. Well, and also, what mattered a lot more to me when I was end of middle school, early high school, is that when you go to school, early high school, is that when you get the braces on, it's much harder to impress girls. And then even in the long run, in that very chair, I interviewed one of the great philosophers of our generation, Mr. Clavicular, very famous, who talks about looks-maxing and bone smashing and mogging and all the rest of it. Anyway, it's very important to be able to impress girls. But at a deeper level, let's fear monger a little bit here. What are the problems that people can face other than a mouth that doesn't look good or you know, you snore a little bit. What are the problems? A stroke of sleep apnea is deadly. I have had patients die of a stroke of sleep apnea. My dental assistant's father passed away at 55 years old, took a nap, woke up, had a heart attack, and died. And he had sleep apnea, and we knew this. He wasn't wearing a CPAP. He wasn't being properly monitored. He didn't like a CPAP. Who likes their CPAP? Yeah. Only a small majority of people. And so when that, when you think about, it's like, I hate to fear monger and I hate to go full blown with that. But I'm telling you, if your child has orthodontics done wrong, as a child, it will plague them for the rest of their life. This is a stupid question. I didn't go to medical school. Why is it that if your teeth are messed up, you stop breathing when you sleep and die? I actually don't understand the connection. I would love to explain it to you. So your mouth, your breathing complex is from here around, right? They call it the nasomaxic complex. All of your air has a community through your nose, your mouth. It should come in through your nose. When you mouth breathe, as a developing child, you have allergies, you're allergic to something, whatever, food sensitivities, underdeveloped large, a tongue tie that went missed, whatever it is. If you were a mouth, and so did I. I had it fixed when I was 37. Yeah. Yeah. If you haven't had it fixed yet, that's a whole 'nother conversation. I need to go get my tongue snapped. Oh, 100%. Oh, this is great. This is why I'm going to the dentist. I can tell you people, I know, right? Here we go. Yeah. But when you mouth breathe, your muscle, your tongue, this massive muscle in your mouth that is responsible for pallid expansion, sits low. If it's sitting at the bottom of your mouth, like this, you will grow in a vertical pattern. Your lower jaw, the mandible, will grow in the direction it's stimulated, which is why the tooth lowers. Because we stimulate the lower jaw to grow forward, and that looks maxing. We help the jaw to be held forward, especially when these poor kids have a lower jaw that's way back. You can tell a profile anywhere you look. Everything we're talking about today, I'm so sorry. You'll never be able to unhear it or unsee it in all of your friends. But when that tongue is low, the jaws do not expand and develop. And the roof of your mouth is the floor of your nose. Do you want to affect your breathing? You need to widen your palate. There's a lot more to say first. 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All right, now that I'm prepared to be healthy and to look smacks, to have a nice, beautiful smile. Now, I'm excited for my favorite time of any show when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Michael, I'm a 22-year-old stoner fan of yours. Thank you. You talk down on people who smoke weed or you, as you call it, peruvian parsley or the devil's lettuce. I also call it the California human jazz cigarettes. You know what I'm talking about? The gong, the old Haitian oregano. Talking about pot. But Alexander writes, "Many of us live flourishing lives. I attend mass regularly on a six-figure revenue landscaping business. Have a beautiful family. What is the problem with me using some leaves to chill out on the weekends?" Thanks for all you do, bro. Okay. Well, there are worse things you can do, I guess, than smoking pot. However, it is bad. And the fact that you say that your Catholic here gives me at least a way in to help you see my perspective, which is, you say you attend mass regularly. If you're attending mass and you're receiving the Eucharist, and you are regularly smoking pot without repenting of it and confessing your sins and receiving absolution, you are committing a mortal sin because you're Catholic. So you do not have a religious tradition that says that things are kind of ambiguous man and it's up to your private judgment. You have a religious tradition that is dogmatic and based on authority, where we can know the answers to these questions and we don't leave them merely up to our private judgment. And the Catholic Church says that it is grave. It's a sin and it is grave to smoke pot recreationally. Now, if you have a medical marijuana prescription, that's a different situation that can be debated. But if you're just doing it recreationally, that is a sin and you should not receive communion according to the Catholic Church. So that's the first thing. Now, you might say, "Well, I disagree with the church on that." Okay, maybe you do. But if you're a practicing Catholic, that's actually not your right to do. But let's just zoom out a little bit and say, "Well, why does the church say it's bad? Why do non-Catholics, why do plenty of non-Catholics object to marijuana?" Well, because marijuana affects your mind. It affects your brain, it affects your body, but it affects your mind. In ways that are different from how tobacco or alcohol is. would affect your mind. It's not necessarily a mortal sin to smoke tobacco. It's not necessarily a mortal sin to drink alcohol. The first public miracle that Jesus performs is turning water into wine for people who've been drinking for days. Drunkenness is a sin, but just drinking wine. That's, I mean, it's, for goodness sakes, it's part of the blessed sacrament. It's consecrating wine. So what are the differences? Well, with alcohol, you can have a drink. And you know, you feel a little more sociable. It's, that's a good effect actually. It's a social lubricant. We're social creatures. It's good to be in community. You can do that without being drunk, without losing your reason, without clouding your judgment. The same is not really true of marijuana. You can't really smoke pot or eat a gummy or a brownie or something to the point where it's just, you know, like a little, I don't know, it kind of relaxes you in a way, but doesn't actually cloud your judgment. I mean, there are products that derive from marijuana that can do that like CBD, I guess, in principle could do that, but that's not what you're talking about. You're talking about THC. You're talking about pot. So it's, it's different in kind. Also, the effects of it are totally different. If you have a drink, if you have a glass of wine, make sure a little more sociable, make sure a little more gregarious, it's conducive to community flourishing. If you smoke pot in my experience, you know, having sampled the old devils like us once or twice, it doesn't do that. It makes you more introspective. It makes you less sociable. It makes you hungrier. It makes you much less funny. It makes you think things are funnier, but you yourself become less funny. So it has totally contrary, even social effects. You mention here that you have a great life. You go to mass, which is good. Though again, if you're committing a mortal sin involves grave matter and a conscious choice. So if, if you're doing something that is grave with full consent and with full knowledge, that is a mortal sin. Now you're aware of that. I've kind of spoiled it if you didn't know that. But anyway, it's good to go to mass, of course, and you have a successful landscaping business. That's awesome. You're a successful business owner. You have a beautiful family. That's even more awesome. That's great. Yeah. There's all this good stuff in your life. But I don't, I am very skeptical that marijuana is helping your life. For a lot of people, booze doesn't help their lives either. But you know, a glass of wine at dinner, that's one thing. A scotch over a cigar with some friends is one thing. A bottle of scotch is something different. And so I would be skeptical. I guess I would ask you to ask yourself, why? Why are you smoking the old gong? What's it doing for you? Why are you so defensive of it? I guess I would ask too. Because if you have this, you know, kind of wrote defense to say, I don't know, but I have to defend my marijuana smoking. That might even speak to an addiction, or at least a kind of disorder view of it. Okay. Enough on pot. Next question from Jason Mamiol. Michael, online people have been calling for the deportation of sneaco and the arrest of Hassan Piker. Sentences, I never thought I'd read. Many people on the right who are critical of Trump, including Nick Fuentes, have said, all President Trump needs to do to get their support back is to port sneaco. This Trump have a legal leg to stand on to do either of these things, or is it just hopeless optimism more than that? If it is legal, do you see Trump doing it? Well, it's funny. I mean, you're mentioning here Nick Fuentes and saying, well, he has to win his support back. I don't know that that really matters all that much politically. In terms of Trump's actual elections and the elections of Republicans, electrically, I don't think that's mattered that much. I don't even say that to throw shade. I just mean Trump has bigger fish to fry in maintaining an electoral coalition than that. There's the other question, which is, there are all these people. It's not just Nick Fuentes, many, many other people coming from many other perspectives who say, you know, I've supported Trump, but he did this one thing that I don't like and I'm out. To me, that is not how politics works. That's not effective. That's not how coalition politics are supposed to work. It's a little ungrateful. It's not really being a team player there. Right off the bat, and that hasn't really worked with Trump. Trump goes very hard on people who flip on him because of one issue or two. I disagree with Trump on a number of issues. I say he has a 99.3% accuracy right, but nobody's perfect. Nobody gets 100% at the time. In the first term, I didn't like the first step act. There was a major piece of legislation and it was a bill that would let some people out of prison. I thought it was a bad law. Does that mean I'm going to turn on Trump? Does that mean I'm going to support some other guy in the 2020 or 2024 election? No. Trump's great. He's the best president on my lifetime. And so I'm not going to do that. And he was, and therefore, by the way, he was never really at risk of losing my support over it. So then let's get to the substance of your question. Can we deport Sneco? I don't really know almost anything about Sneco. I'm skeptical that that's his Christian name, but the question is, is he an American citizen or not? Is he a natural born citizen? Was he naturalized or is he not a citizen? If he's a foreigner and he's not a citizen, then you could deport him. You know, you'd come up with some reason, but yeah, in principle, you could deport him easily enough. With the son Piker, I know him a little better and I know that you couldn't deport him because he's an anchor baby. Even though he grew up in Turkey and he hates America and he calls for the murder of senators and all the rest, you can't deport him. That's one of the flaws of our birthright citizenship program that the Supreme Court unfortunately just upheld. So maybe you can deport Sneco. I don't know anything about Sneco. I don't care to know that much about Sneco, but if you can deport him, that'd be great. With Hassan, you can't. Though I think you could possibly prosecute him and I would strongly encourage that. I know my libertarian friends who just want to endlessly debate things forever. They say, no, we have to invite him to the free marketplace of ideas, but I don't think so. I think he called for the murder of senators. I think he celebrates 9/11. I think his ideology is putrid and we can know that with certainty or near certainty and we should just arrest him for the crimes he's committed and we should imprison him and that would be good. So I would encourage the administration to explore that, the DOJ to explore that if they can. And then for the bad people who don't have citizenship, try to get them out if you can. Okay, this is from Kelly Klaid. Michael, my boys and I went to see Spider-Man last night and they're obsessed. There is something about seeing boys, even even men including my husband, staring at a movie screen, watching their favorite superhero that is heartwarming. My question to you is who's your favorite superhero? Batman. Since I was a boy, I don't really, I don't pay that much attention to superhero movies anymore, but I don't like the movies. I try not to go to them, but I don't, I'm not opposed to the superhero stories generally because the superhero stories are just modern mythology and they're not always the best. They're not always the highest forms of the myths. They're not. But they do a lot of the things that the ancient Greek myths and the ancient Greek hero, hero tales, did. They do a lot of the things that the medieval stories about knights and crusaders did. The Roman de la Rose or those kinds of books did. So that's just the modern diversion of that and instead of Hercules and Achilles, we have Iron Man or whatever. But since I was a boy, I've always loved Batman and I'll psychoanalyze my childhood self. I do wonder if it's because he's not actually a superhero. His only superpower is money. He has a kind of super amount of money. It seems to be endless. He never really seems to be running his company, but he just goes around at night and solves crime. But it doesn't have any magical powers or anything like that. He just is really rich and has technology. So I guess in a way, he's like a Iron Man that way. I'm not as familiar with Iron Man. But I like that also because Spider-Man is about New York. It's about a real city. It's about a guy who experienced injustice, very up close and personal. First hand, he sees his parents murdered and then he devotes the rest of his life to enacting justice, albeit as a vigilante, which brings in all sorts of interesting ethical debates. But the story at least is that he enacts justice in a world that often mistakes it. So I like that. I do like that.