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he taxes on Israelis. I don't think Israelis should be taxed to take care of the Palestinians. That's too far under the current circumstance. Before maybe it was more of a conversation. Before, but now nope. I would say complete divorce and make it permanent. That would be my take on that. And I definitely wouldn't open the border to let anybody come in and work ever again. Wouldn't do that just b…

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in the air over it, you could probably turn it into a technological prison where if anybody gets out, drone is activated and hunts them down and just kills them where they're running. You could probably come up with some technical solutions for identifying tunnels that we've not seen before.

You want to hear the most low-tech idea I ever had? You take a Roomba, one of those little vacuum cleaner robots, and if you find one of the tunnel openings, it wouldn't be hard to find one, you just put the Roomba in there and you let it map the entire inside of the tunnels. Now you'd have to have some way to get the signal out before they destroyed it. So you put the Roomba in and it just goes Roomba, Roomba, and it figures out where the walls are. It kind of maps the place until the first terrorist sees it and then blows it up. But then you send something down to kill that terrorist and then send in another Roomba. You just destroy them with Roombas, you know, little robots with bombs on them.

So the problem with using robotics or drones is that you will lose your signal, right? If you send in a little drone like a little flying drone into a tunnel, eventually it would lose signal. But there are new technologies, and in fact I just talked about one yesterday, in which you can put AI onto the device with the small little chip, which they have an alpha version of it right now, that would make AI-related decisions on its own once it lost signal. So we're pretty close to you know Skynet kind of thing because the intelligence to make their own decisions is going into drones and it's happening now. Like that's current technology, is putting an entire AI onto a chip, putting it in the robot, and then the robot goes off and makes its own decisions from that point on. That's real. That's current technology.

So could it be that some of the robots that would normally be used to clear the tunnel, normally you would use it remotely with some remote control, but maybe they send some independent ones down there and maybe they send as many as you need. You know, just keep sending them, just keep making them in sets of them. And you know they'd get destroyed, but before they did maybe some would get back, maybe some would find out how to send a signal, something like that. So you'd end up mapping and killing everything in the tunnels without ever going down in a tunnel if you had enough robots and AI.

The other possibility is just gas. I believe I saw the brother, the son of the leader of Hamas who is pro-Israel and anti-Hamas, weirdly. So he was actually saying you're probably going to need to use gas, to which I said, huh, what kind of gas? And I thought it could be all kinds. Somebody suggested skunk. Why not? Why not put a smell down there that's so bad that you just couldn't exist without a gas mask? Yeah, we could drop Eric Swalwell down there, just dangle him on a rope, let him do the rest. Or other possibilities are sleeping gas, etc.

But the one that I like to suggest is they should be running out of that captagon drug pretty soon if you wait long enough. So that's the one that makes them stay up all night and want to fight and do horrible things. As I've said before, Israel should already be making fake versions of captagon so that four out of five are either normal captagon or they're a little underpowered, and the fifth one's just an overdose waiting to happen. The fifth one's actually designed to kill you but it's mixed in with the ones that aren't. So you want to get rid of all of their legal forms so that their only choices are Russian roulette with the next pill. Because I'm guessing that they're addicted. What do you think? You think the captagon has already made them addicted? Like if they run out, there's nothing that they're going to do not to get some more. So if you could give them deadly captagon at the same time they run out and they're addicted, they're going to start popping the stuff that kills one out of five people, right? Because they're like, well, four out of five chance, that's not bad.

The ADL is embarrassing itself in the midst of this Hamas situation. They put out a statement saying white supremacists are still a big problem. Not really reading the room right. What have the white supremacists done lately? Can you think of anything the white supremacists have done? Well, I can think of something. Let's see if you can think of something else. Here's something the white supremacists have done recently: backed Israel. That's all I need to say about that.

And not, yeah, because I don't think that they're crazy about Hamas is what I think.

Well, my old nemesis Chen, who some say is a Chinese operative but Chen says no, he's just a guy on the X platform saying stuff. But he's talking about the British Broadcasting Company, which some call the BBC. He points out that it said that 1,400 Israelis were quote massacred but 4,000 Palestinians were quote killed. And Chen points out it's extreme bias in choosing the words is staggering. Well, okay, it does matter. The intention doesn't it? The Hamas were intending to slaughter and disembowel people. That was literally what they were planning to do and then they did it. The Israelis were trying to protect themselves and trying to avoid civilian deaths if they could. Not really the same, Chen. But I only point it out not because he makes a good point or not even a bad point. It's just sort of a stupid point. But is sort of anti-Israel and he's, I believe he's an approved Chinese voice in their foreign influence campaign. So that would mean that he's sort of suggestive of what Chinese leadership would also say. So they seem to be taking sides.

Have you seen the story that's partially fake news about Biden paying cash for his beach house, the one he uses now? So at some point back in 2017 I guess he paid $2.75 million in cash for his Rehoboth beach home. He paid cash. Who pays cash for a house? Some people. But it's suggested by the people who are chasing his bad behavior that this is a symbol of the sort of thing he's doing with or was doing with his ill-gotten criminal gains from selling his influence or something like that. But to me it just looks like a story. You know why? So remember the propaganda isn't only coming from the left. So this was pure propaganda I saw on the right. So the story starts out saying blah blah Biden crime family. So you're all primed to think this is a criminal thing. And then they tell you he paid cash for a $2.75 million home and you're thinking, whoa, on a senator's salary or a vice president's salary, can you do that? And then at the end of the article it says that it was about the same time he got $1 million in royalties for his book. Isn't that the whole story? He made a lot of money on a book and then he bought a beach house. Like the fact that the anti-Biden people tied together what looks like a public and completely understanding source of money but put that at the end of the article.

Here's how that article should have been. I forget who wrote it but it doesn't matter. The article should have said at about the same time he was making millions of dollars on his book he bought a beach house. That's it. That should have been the whole story. Why did we have to assume that this money came from some other source when he got paid $11 million? So the fact that it was worded all of his bad behavior first, oh bad behavior, bad behavior, but he also bought a beach house for cash. So the bad behavior and the cash he paid for the beach house, that must be the same story, right? That's what the Democrats do to you. That's what the Democrats do. You know if you see a story like that from your own side, you know, let's say you lean right and it's a right-leaning entity that writes it, that's just, right now I'm not defending Joe Biden. I'm saying you're going to need to do better than that. If you're proving he made a whole bunch of legal money that's well disclosed and then he spent some of it, that should be the whole story. Separately maybe he did some scabby things but that's separate. I wouldn't put those together. So the propaganda is not coming from just one direction. Just be aware of that.

Is writing a book a good way to make a million? Well, let me explain book publishing. Number one, it could be a way to launder funds. In other words if he got an unusually high advance for his book, you know, way more than they expected to sell the books, that would be suggestive that maybe there's a publisher who wanted a favor from somebody in the government so they were willing to overpay a little bit. You know, maybe there's a billionaire involved with the publisher who

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is willing to subsidize a little bit of their overpayment. So there are a million ways that you could do some sketchy things that launder money by overpaying for a book. And that's probably what happened given the players involved and the fact that they sell influence for a living, you know, legally perhaps. I don't know that Joe or Hunter did anything illegal but it's obvious they were selling in…

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