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together a list of if you just do these five things we can live in peace. We're just asking you stop abusing us in these five ways. Nobody's ever done that. Here's why I think they don't do it. If a Palestinian leader put together a list of five things that you needed to do in order to have peace and none of those five things said get all Jews out of Israel the leader of the Palestinians would be…

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ll number. So I think Trump might have a good lawyer in that mix there. There's something about this I like so much. So much.

Well speaking of Biden and inflation. So Biden's trying to argue that corporations raised their prices because their own costs were high but then when the inflation went down according to Biden but not too many other people the corporations didn't lower the prices. So you know what the problem is? It's those corporations. No it's not how much money he printed. It's not how much he borrowed. No no no it's those evil corporations. That's all he has. Imagine having nothing else to run on but that. Yeah inflation's high but I blame the corporations because you know what the free market stopped working. That's right. The free market has stopped working. That's what he's arguing. Because if a company raised its prices and then its cost of production went down but it didn't lower its price it's competing against somebody unless there's collusion or monopoly activity that could be. Too anyway.

Trump is finding a way to lose it looks like. Trump is going to take a crack at getting rid of Obamacare. That is such a losing strategy. My God how many times have I told you that? Nobody's even brought up Medicare I'm sorry. Nobody brought up health care. Health care was the biggest thing and it just stopped being an issue. When was the last time you heard anybody complain about Obamacare? A year? I haven't even heard the name in two years probably.

Well so here's what I think. I said this in the beginning and I'm going to double down on it. I think Obama was a genius about Obamacare. And in public Obama said that Obamacare was basically a mess but once it got in the system it would be too hard to remove it and so the government would be forced to keep tweaking and improving it until it had something that worked. Because remember health care was like this huge unsolvable problem. Nobody could figure out how to create a good health care system that would also be supported by people. There wasn't any way to do it. If he had the best idea in the world the other side would have said no and there just wasn't any way to make a good one.

So instead of making a good one he actually in public said directly so we're going to give you a bad one and we're going to stick it with the country and when they're too hooked on it they'll have to fix it. And that's actually happening I think. I think there have been enough tweaks that people just stopped complaining about it or they adjusted to the cost, got used to it, started worrying about other things.

But here's my point. I'm not going to make an argument that Obamacare is good. If you heard that that's not what I'm saying. Let me say it again. I'm not making an argument that Obamacare is good. My argument is it's no longer a political question. But if Trump says I'm going to get rid of it it's just going to turn into the worst political thing of all time. You should just ignore it. If people, if nobody's complaining about it at least in the media and social media I don't see anybody complaining. If they're not complaining move on to something they are complaining about that you can fix. That to me would be like the abortion question. It would be another way to lose on principle. On principle he might say this has to be fixed. I know people aren't complaining but on principle there's some things wrong with it we need to fix. But that's how you lose an election on principle. So you have to make that decision. You have to make the Vegas decision to just say I'm trying to win this time so I'm going to let TikTok survive until I win.

All right. And that ladies and gentlemen concludes my prepared remarks for what will no doubt be the best live stream you've ever seen in your life. Probably will go down in history as the greatest thing that ever happened.

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You can persuade him to talk to you in an interview online. I don't know. We'll try. Bye for now.