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you know why? Do you know what Putin's popularity is in the Russian country? Putin's popularity I think it's north of 80 percent. And I don't see people saying that's a fake number. Now obviously the news is very controlled but Russia has the internet do they not? Can't every Russian get to the internet and see all free information everywhere? I think they can. And they still decided that even in…

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So I'll tell you what we need is a lot of details.

Oh somebody says Carl said it is real. So we do have confirmation that audio tape is real. Well good for Carrie. She went up in my estimation because of that and she's always very capable but now we know she's also honest.

So Boston is also going to have that task force take some time and get back to him. Now it's I call it the pointy haired boss strategy because you don't want to say no but you can't say yes so you send them back to study it and when they come back with a result you say that's not good enough you better study it some more until they just give up. Right that's how it's done in corporate America. Just study that thing until you give up.

But I think this is the same approach that would work in Gaza. So Israel has the same situation. They can't allow Hamas to form another country next to them just like they did before. But they also because of the intense international pressure they can't say they're not going to do it you know which is what Netanyahu is saying but it's not working out well.

So what could Israel do much like the reparations people are doing? Well if I were Israel this is what I'd do. I'd say you know what you Hamas supporters say that at the end of this war at the end of the military actions that you want to rebuild yourself. Can you give us a specific detailed plan of how you plan to run and keep terrorism away from Israel? That's the important part. Come back with a detailed plan of how Hamas will take power over and that what they will do specifically to make sure that Hamas no longer attacks Israel.

Do you think that could ever be done? Do you think Hamas could ever put together in writing a plan that says all right we're going to take over but this time we're going to put in all these functions that will guarantee that we don't attack Israel? They can't do that. There's no way in the world they could do that. But if you don't ask them to tell you what is your plan for how we should rebuild Gaza then it looks like you're the bad guy right?

So you don't say no to reparations. Say go study it and tell us the details. When they come back with the details it's like give every black descendant of slavery 1.2 million dollars and everybody laughs at it because it's just so stupid and impractical. Same thing would happen if Hamas came back with a plan. They come back with their plans like all right here's the plan. We just go back into power and then there Israel said well the most important part's missing. The part where you do something differently so we're no longer attacked like October 7th. So go back and work on that some more until you've addressed what you can do. And they'll go back and work on it for another year and they'll come back all right here's our plan. We'll take over the government. Hamas will be back in charge. Everybody will give us money to rebuild and that's our plan.

Then Israel will say did you maybe not get the memo? We said this entire past year you were supposed to be working on your specific plan about how to stop future terrorism because that's sort of a base requirement for having a country next to us. And then they say well you better give us another six months. You could make them spin their wheels forever until they just give up because that's what's going to happen with the reparations committees. They're just going to spin their wheels. Occasionally they'll come up with a plan that's so absurdly impractical that nobody takes it seriously and then they're sent back to study it some more. You could do the same thing with Gaza forever. Give us your plan. Well that's not a plan. Try again. But I definitely would like to work with you and see what your plan is. Come back when you've got one. And then repeat.

All right so you know more reports about the Soros organization pouring zillions of dollars into various entities and political groups in the United States. And I have this question. Shouldn't there be some kind of a law about one person how much any one entity can put into the political process? Now you don't want to say it's zero because that's a free speech issue because sometimes you have to pay to get your voice out so that requires money. So yes money in politics and paying to get your message out that seems fine. But at some point there's an amount of money that's so great that you've subverted the political republic. So I feel like we should at least consider a maximum amount that can go into the system in every different way.

So if the Soros organization is putting lots of money into different organizations I think you'd have to sum it up and say okay that's too much control for one person. Something like that. Now I don't love new laws and new regulations and new limits on freedom but I feel like it might increase our freedom by getting that you know the money effect out or limiting it. Just a thought. It just seems crazy to me that we would let one person have this much influence when we know it right? Why does he get, you know Soros probably controls 20 million votes. You get one but Soros can probably influence probably 20 million people you know just his own money alone. That feels right. You know maybe 20 percent of Democrats would vote the way they vote because they've been influenced by his money one way or the other. That's a lot. It's enough to control the country.

All right. What we need is love says Jose. What we need is love. Well I'll try the love. You try the love. I'll try being well armed. We'll see who does better. Yeah if you look at Zuckerberg, Hoffman and Soros between the three of them they do control a lot of the country in terms of our opinions.

So Doc Bo Johnson saying some rumors about, no who is it? No JM says but Scott that's me told us Soros is just a nice giving guy a few months back. He called it all a conspiracy theory that he was evil. No I didn't. Nope it literally didn't happen. You are hallucinating. I definitely never said he's giving money because he's a nice guy. I said I don't understand it which I still don't. So there's something about it that I don't understand.

See you think that Soros is the head of the snake. Was that anti-semitic? Did I accidentally use the anti-semitic trope? If I did I take that part back. But you know what I mean. It's a common statement. The head of the animal or head of the beast. I don't think he's in charge. I don't think Soros is calling the shots. I believe Soros is controlled by somebody's country's intelligence operation. It might be ours. Might be ours. I don't know.

And I would imagine that he's putting a lot of money into things we don't know for the same reason that he's being controlled by some intelligence entities. Because I kind of doubt he could do so well without a little help you know what I mean? Isn't he an unusually good investor? You know unusually good for years and years. He keeps nailing it doesn't he? Wow he's so good at investing. Do you thi

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nk that's all just natural? It's organic? It could be. Maybe he's a super genius but he doesn't act like one when he talks. You don't say to yourself well there's a guy who got everything right. I mean maybe he got lucky when he started but I can't imagine that the intelligence groups in the various countries would leave him alone right? You don't think anybody's knocked on his door and said all r…

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