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if your other possibility is just to stay home and be unhappy, just stay home and be unhappy sometimes. All right, don't follow my advice about anything. All right, let's talk about my other favorite topic. You know I've been saying for years that the future is building cities from scratch. NPCs, you may yell at 15-minute cities now. Go yell 15-minute cities. Say no, no, 15 minutes at least. Oh,…
← Previous segment →py with, and it came out really well. But that's the future. The future is cities from scratch, and there's almost no way around it because it'll be the biggest industry that everybody agrees we need. And people who want to live there — and there will be lots, lots of different ones. Will some of these cities be 15-minute cities that Klaus Schwab will take all your freedom and your security and your privacy? Maybe. But others will be something else.
All right, this Hunter Biden plea deal. We're finding out more about it. Politico is trying to spin it as late payments that nobody goes to jail for being late on their taxes. You just work out a payment plan, and it would be very unusual to go to jail just because you were late on your taxes. So that's what it was, right? That was the problem, was the problem that Hunter was just late on his taxes, but now he's paid. Now he's paid. Yeah, you know, I was once late on my taxes too, so I mean same kind of crime.
Now in my case I did not set up a series of international shell companies to hide the fact that I was late. I didn't do that. I just, I think I forgot or something. I may have forgotten to pay an estimated payment once, and I just paid my penalty and paid my money and I didn't go to jail. But you know, I also didn't have a series of shell companies to run it through so it would be hidden from everybody. So there's that.
There of course is some pushback. So lawyers never agree on anything. Some people saying, oh it's not that big a deal, nobody would have gone to jail for the specific things that Hunter did. Others say this is not late, this is hiding money from the IRS about the most illegal thing you could possibly do. Well, you know, potato, potato. But there is evidence that the investigation only went forward be
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cause of the whistleblowers. So pretty much everything you thought about everything was true on the Hunter Biden story. Everything you suspected seems to be true. It's a pretty interesting model because sometimes you see stories where you're like, I don't know, that might be true but no way to know. Yeah, maybe, probably not. But you see the Hunter story and now there's a pattern that's developed…
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