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have a real good case if they lost you know the Congress entirely that they would have to say well you can't lose the presidency too. That's too far. That would be pretty motivating for their base. So I think it's going to be tough for a Republican to get through that wall. There is a new kind of doctor that I was exposed to twice today. I'll call them the LOL doctors. Where you say something tha…

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and Ukraine. So why do you think that the U.S. offered basically nothing except a willingness for open dialogue? Why would they not be willing to have Russia completely stand down which is what I imagine we would ask in return and stop hacking? Why would we not take that deal unless there's something we don't know? Or here's the other possibility.

So I'm going to give Biden the benefit of the doubt and I would have done this for Trump okay. I would have given the benefit of the doubt to Trump. So I'm just going to extend the same courtesy to Biden. It could be the people who are smarter than I am on Russia, which would be almost anybody who spent five minutes trying to be smarter than me on Russia, it could be that the smart people just know that Russia can't do anything and that we basically have Putin by the balls. And as long as we have them by the balls we just don't even have to agree to anything. And then maybe that's just the best way to handle it because I don't think there's any chance that Putin's going to invade because the financial repercussions would be devastating. I

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don't think there's any chance. So it could be that the Biden administration is simply confident that it's a bluff and they don't have to give anything. So even though in my opinion what they're being asked to give is so minimal it's laughably nothing, maybe we don't have to give anything. And if you can get away with giving nothing well it shows strength doesn't it? Would you disagree? It does s…

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