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It is a slow Friday, so Jon Herold opens the phones and the conversation gets real fast. Trump posted a middle-of-the-night Truth Social calling for the 2020 presidential election to be permanently wiped from the books with no further force or effect, and Jon unpacks why that kind of rhetoric matters even if nobody knows exactly what it means yet. Then the callers come in hot: a wide-ranging discussion on blackpilling, burnout, hopium addiction, and why Chris Paul keeps getting misrepresented by people who cannot sit still long enough to hear a full sentence. A special forces soldier just got arrested for betting on his own Maduro operation on Polymarket, and Jon finds it hard to be outraged when Congress has been doing the same thing forever and walking free. The DOJ also quietly dropped its criminal probe of Jerome Powell, which Jon finds very Tillis-shaped. Plus: the firing squad is officially back as a federal execution method, Todd Blanche made a significant speech at the NRA on embedding second amendment protections into regulatory infrastructure, and Wickoff is heading to Pakistan for Iran talks without Vance, which is apparently a thing now.