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ause we know children to be damaged by being kept out of the social school situation. They're not learning as much. They're not socializing right. They're getting damaged. It's real. It's important. But likewise the economy really depends on getting the kids back to school because you've got two parents that can't work at the same time necessarily if kids are there. So the teachers unions have bec…

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kills to transfer to space? Because space is going to be nuclear, all right? Probably they won't use nuclear engines to take off. That might stay similar to how it is now. But once you get into space you're going to need some serious energy, right? To stay up there for a while, to go to Mars and back, that sort of thing. You're gonna need a lot of energy.

And so the idea is nuclear thermal propulsion. So it uses the nuclear reaction to heat liquid to some god-awfully high number which causes the propellant to expand and shoots out the nozzles and whatever. So if you use nuclear energy in rockets once they get to space, not only could you get to Mars, is it two years they think? Maybe it's twice as fast. But when you get there you've got a nuclear energy source. So not only does the nuclear engine allow you to travel but should you try to colonize something you'd have a nuclear energy source. Just plug in your devices to your spaceship I guess.

All right, so that's good. And again I point that out because if the United States doesn't dominate or at least be a major presence in space we don't have a future, right? Whoever owns space, that's who is going to control the future. That's it. So and without nuclear that doesn't happen. And without a robust civilian nuclear program you're not going to have the talent to do it in space. So we have to pursue that.

Now what would happen if we tried to find unity in this country? What would that look like? What would it look like if we tried to have unity? Well Joe Biden's call for unity involves impeaching Trump. So he just said again that he wants to do it even though it's bad for the country. Revenge, I know. So is that good for unity? Is impeaching Trump at the expense of the business of the country for unity? That's not much unity.

I was watching Alan Dershowitz's podcast which is really good called The Dershow. One word, as in the first part of Dershowitz, it's his name, The Dershow. And he had asked people for ideas and suggestions on how to build unity with the left, political left and right. And I tweeted yesterday a caller who called in to suggest that maybe the best way to get unity would be for Joe Biden to correct and apologize the fine people hoax.

Now I was a little bit concerned that Alan Dershowitz would say that's no hoax, that's a real thing, as most Democrats would say right now. Remember Alan Dershowitz identifies Democrat. He voted for Hillary Clinton, has never wavered. He's a Democrat to the core. And as a Democrat he said unambiguously that the fine people hoax is a hoax and went through the reasoning and said it as clearly as you could possibly say it. And I felt really good about it because I've told you before that I'm never confident in my opinion until I hear Dershowitz agree with it or I hear him first and then I just agree with him because it's easier than coming up with my own opinions because his are better than mine. So I just wait till Dershowitz says something. I go, what did he say? Okay, that's my opinion now.

Now I do think about it a little bit but he's so damn logical that once he says his opinion I just look at it and go, ah, who else has an opinion that's going to top that? I don't think so. So I feel as if we should pick a thing and push it forever. And I think the thing we, meaning

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anybody who wants Biden to pursue unity, I think we should push the fine people hoax as the thing that needs to be corrected. It's the thing in my life that most needs to be corrected. I need the people on the left to know they were lied to about that in particular because it was so important. They need to understand they were lied to about that. That's a big change. There's nothing else unity wis…

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