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uppose if they wanted to find every asset for every year and really dig into every single thing that could have been inflated, maybe, maybe. But by now we would have a specific example I would think. This building was — you know this problem. There were other little problems but boy this building, they really inflated this cost on this building. I'm feeling that every day that goes by that we don…
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Somebody says been there Scott. A lot of bad memories. Sorry I didn't mean to trigger you.
All right. I guess Tucker Carlson also called General Milley a stupid pig for his wokeness comments etc. Max Boot got on the air, a Democrat operative, and he says what would Republicans have said if AOC or the squad had called the general of the United States military a stupid pig? What would Republicans say then, huh? What would they say?
I think they would cheer. This is the worst argument I've ever seen, Max Boot. If the squad had said exactly what Tucker said about this general, which is that he's using wokeness for probably political reasons and weakening the military with his wokeness, if the squad had called him a stupid pig for chasing wokeness instead of keeping the country safe, do you think Republicans would have said hey no you're going too far? No. Republicans would have said well finally we agree. Thank you. Yes he's being a stupid pig.
They wouldn't use those words. I agree that that's not so much the way Republicans typically talk. And I'm not sure I would call Tucker a Republican but I'll say leans in that direction. I don't know what he is technically.
Let's talk about North Korea. Apparently Kim Jong-un has fired some people who are in charge of his COVID stuff because they're not getting it done. And North Korea is in big trouble. They got 25 million people and basically no vaccinations.
Now let me suggest the following. Here's another situation in which Trump would have been a better president clearly. And let me lay this out for you and you'll see it. I think it's guaranteed that the United States will reach a point where we have more vaccinations, more supply than people willing to get vaccinated. And we're probably about there. Meaning that the U.S. will be in a position to create or generate lots of vaccinations for other countries and help them out.
Now how should we do it? Because there are lots of countries that are going to need lots of vaccinations and we can't do everybody. But just imagine a President Trump saying 25 million people in North Korea, we're going to vaccinate them all. Just think about it. 25 million people in North Korea. And as long as Kim Jong-un says yes, we're going to vaccinate them all. And it might come at the expense of some other countries that could use some vaccinations quite desperately. You know some African countries, some other countries that are in desperate straits.
But why would it make sense strategically to vaccinate all North Koreans? Because it would end any threat we ever have with them forever. For the price of 25 million vaccinations it would take China's influence over them to a lower level and it would guarantee that the United States doesn't want to be in a war. In fact we'd like you to be healthy. We don't want North Korea to crumble having nuclear weapons. We could basically guarantee that North Korea is never a threat to the United States again just by doing them a solid that we're not doing for other people and just play favorites.
Just say look when it comes down to an emergency call on us. Call on us. We'll take care of it. So I think a President Trump could make that happen. I don't think a President Biden can make that happen. And this would have been a permanent change. This would just be a forever memory. North Korea would never forget if we did this for them.
Now of course this requires Kim Jong-un to be fully on with the plan and willing to get closer to the United States in return for this. But man this is a giant opportunity. I mean it would be crazy not to take it. This is free money. Don't I always tell you that Trump always takes the free money that people leave on the table? This is freaking free money because we're going to give vaccinations to somebody and we're probably going to give them to countries that don't have a strategic value to us at all. So why not do it, right?
So North Korea, if you're listening — and I suspect you might be — we'd like to help you out. At least some of the citizens would.
Here's an irony I didn't see coming. That apparently climate change and the agreements to lower carbon are going to destroy China before the United States. Didn't see that coming. Apparently China has a massive energy problem right now. It's not the future. Like right now they don't have enough energy to even produce what their economy can produce. They're actually rationing ener
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gy. And the problem is that they can't use their messy coal plants as much anymore and they can't build new ones because they're committed to getting to being carbon neutral by 2060. So even though their goal is pretty far down the line there's no way to get there unless they get really, really tight on energy right away. At least they think. Which means that their economy is now constricted by t…
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