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be a mix. But I think it's all bad for kids. Are you aware that Representative Dan Crenshaw and also Michael Waltz, both Republicans, issued a joint resolution authorizing Biden to use military force to combat the cartels pumping fentanyl and other stuff into the country? So that's all good. Now remember, my current political stand is that I'm going to back for president whoever has the best fen…
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Crenshaw, the architect of the bill, last Congress told Fox News Digital that the cartels quote are responsible for about 360,000 homicides this year in Mexico. That couldn't possibly be true, is it? 360,000 murders in one year in Mexico? No, that's not plausible. That is not plausible. I'm sorry. 36,000 might be. Would you accept 36,000? 36,000 is a lot. That would be a lot of murder. But 360,000? No.
So can we do a fact check on that? Because my belief is that — oh, 370 per day. What's wrong with a little hyperbole? Well, that's a lot of hyperbole. Yeah, that's a lot of hyperbole. Because if it were really 360,000 murders in a year, the Mexican government would be begging us to send in the military, wouldn't they? Am I wrong about that? If it were really 360,000 a year just in Mexico in one year, they would be begging us for the military. That can't possibly be true.
Would you believe 25,000? I would, yeah. I would believe 36,000. I mean, I wouldn't know if it's true, but it's within the credible range. So that's weird.
Let's talk about China. Wall Street Journal has an opinion piece. I'm trying to decide if it's racist. Every time I hear that China can't develop technology, you know, because they have something about their system, they can't develop techn
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ology. Did we say this about Japan when I was young? Didn't we say, oh, the Japanese, there's something about their culture. They'll never want to take a chance, so therefore they'll never build any technology because they don't want to. There's something about their culture. Well, Japan is doing okay. Seems like they fixed that. Now we're doing the same thing about China, that there's something…
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