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very corpuscle in my body, powering up. All right, full power now.

You don't know what you're gonna get now. Well, let's see what's going on in the world. China's pretty much screwed. They're shutting down things because of COVID. They've shut down life in Shenzhen and Shanghai, and the Foxconn company that makes iPhones is having to move their business to other locations. And well, it's looking kind of ugly.

And here's my question. Number one, do you remember I've been warning you that China's pandemic is ahead of them? I did that, right? Can somebody confirm that I've been telling you that China's pandemic is ahead of them, not behind them? Yeah, okay. I'm seeing in the comments you remember I said that. I don't remember anybody else saying that in public. Do you? Do you remember anybody else saying, "I think China's problem is ahead of them"?

Certainly when Omicron came, because the idea was that the virus was going to be around forever and the vaccinations don't stop it, and the Chinese vaccinations especially don't stop it. So well, it looks like Sweden's pandemic is behind them. Yeah, I think the West has largely conquered this thing. I hope so.

But why is it that every single thing that happens in the news has a supply chain impact? This can't be a coincidence. Is it just everything has a supply chain impact, whereas two years ago n

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othing did? Am I right? It just went from everything affects nothing to everything affects it. There's something going on that doesn't look completely organic to me. I don't know what it is. Could be that we're in the simulation and we're testing supply chains. It could be a weird coincidence, I guess. Zelensky has picked up on my persuasion. Not specifically my persuasion, but let me explain. So…

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