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lucky, huh? Pretty lucky for you. 15 billion years, and you just happened to be alive at just the time we learned there are aliens floating around the planet. Somebody says 4.5 billion. I think it's 15 billion. 15 billion for the universe. 4.5 might be for the planet or something. But for the universe, I think it's 15 billion. So I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would bet a million dol…
← Previous segment →like this guy. And he's definitely smart enough. He definitely is a good persuader. I've seen him giving interviews. He's really good in public. So I feel like he's got a really good shot. I wouldn't bet against him at all.
All right. Remember I was telling you that I think people who are overweight may be the super spreaders? Well, there are now, we do know that obese subjects with influenza, now this is influenza, shed the virus for a longer period of time, up to 100 percent longer. So there is now some evidence that at least with viruses in general, influenza virus, that obesity makes you closer to a super spreader, all things being equal. Not every person, obviously.
So Rashida Tlaib is getting into it with Biden because I guess Biden is not doing enough to speak out against the violence in the Middle East. And when Biden tried to say some nice things about Rashida Tlaib, he called her Rasheed. So he didn't even know her name, which is funny. And I don't think there's going to be much movement. I don't think Biden will abandon Israel. He's got a long history of being pro-Israel. But this is interesting to watch the left eat itself and tear itself apart.
Now, what do you make of the fact that the one representative who has a Palestinian heritage, I don't know what the right word is, that she's more pro-Palestinian than other people? It kind of makes it feel that race is a big part of this, which it is because it's a big part of everything. But it does make me think that she supports the Palestinians because she has a connection, as opposed to she's representing the United States and has decided that what's in the best interest of the United States is to be more supportive of the Palestinian people. I don't feel like that's what's going on. It feels like she's an American representative who's representing another foreign power because it doesn't look like it's based on what's good for the United States. So that's not so good.
So there's a big question about why Biden lifted sanctions on the Russian pipeline in Europe, which will make Europe more dependent on Russia, which is a bad situation militarily and defense-wise. You don't want to be in that situation. But a week after Russian hackers, not necessarily connected with the government, we don't know, but Russian-based hackers shut down a U.S. pipeline, and then suddenly Biden is allowing a Russian pipeline. So Russians shut down our pipeline, and right after that Biden gets his pipeline back online? Huh. I feel as if there's something we don't know about this story.
Let me speculate. One possibility is that Putin has already executed the hackers. Because let me ask you this. If the hackers were operating independently and they made a lot of money, apparently over 90 million dollars with their various hacks, so there is strong evidence that the hackers were working independently, as they always had, is that good for Putin or bad for Putin? Do you think Putin said to himself, yay, some ha
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ckers on my territory took down some American infrastructure? Yes? I don't think so. I don't think so. I think Putin would have said, and of course we can't read his mind, but if you put yourself in his position, did you want those hackers to do that? No. If you're Putin, you want those hackers dead, don't you? Because they crossed the line. They embarrassed Putin himself. They made Putin's job h…
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