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ow makes sense? Yes, because he said go into Mexico, first try to work with the Mexican government but if that doesn't work we take care of it ourselves. Trump also said that. Trump said it first, which I think also raises Vivek's bid. So now you have two strong candidates, one of them the one who's leading in the polls saying war with Mexico. Like actually invade just the cartels, not the governm…
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Have you heard about this? It's like the worst story in Iran. I guess there's all these poisoning attacks in girls' schools. Over 50 schools and more than 400 schoolgirls in 21 provinces across Iran have been poisoned in school. Like intentionally. I guess it's obvious that it's intentional but they don't know who's doing it. They assume your best guess is some religious extremist who doesn't like girls' education, which is a pretty good guess. But I can't even imagine that, can you? It's like it defies imagination. It's like a level of evil that your brain can't even wrap itself around. So you know this is one thing where I guess I can say I agree with the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah says if they find who's doing it they're gonna execute them. And I hate to agree with the Ayatollah but yeah, that would be my guess. You need to execute whoever that is. Wow.
President Xi was getting a little more pointed about America. No surprise. And he's saying directly in his speeches that the U.S. is hurting China's economy. And I don't know how much is the U.S. hurting it with sanctions and how much is just the natural situation. But here's some of the bad economic news for China. No surprise. China's exports fell seven percent in the January to February period. I don't know if that's a big deal. Could be seasonal. I don't know what that's about. Extending a decline from previous months. Okay, that's even worse as global demand weakened. And imports dropped 10 percent. China's exports to the U.S. plunged 15 percent. There we go. Good work, America. Yeah, China's exports to the U.S. plunged 15 percent.
Now here's something that you wouldn't necessarily know if you're not an economist or you don't study this stuff. You don't have to take a hundred percent of anything to destroy it, right? Things have a breaking point and you know you don't have to get down to zero exports to America before China's in serious trouble. Fifteen percent sounds like a catastro
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phe to me, doesn't it to you? A 15 percent decline in exports to the U.S. To me that sounds like a catastrophe. Like it's not an end of the economy catastrophe but what if it's 25 or 30 percent? You know if it's 30 percent it's probably game over and we're heading in that direction. Now you know that's always hyperbole too. Have I ever used any hyperbole before? Is this the first time? I think may…
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