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oth super young right Madison and Hamilton but if they came in at that age and you looked at the resume you'd say ah yeah I think you need to get seasoned a few more decades before you. But if you were smart you'd say hm young Steve Jobs, young Mark Zuckerberg, young Elon Musk right? And so you see that same 1776 hiring decisions if you can call it that being made by Trump. Vance too young perfect…

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ertified as a real education. Now I don't think I would love if college turned into only online because the in-person part of college is important but we could probably figure out ways where people are taking classes they have something in common could group together and have meetings and study together and do projects together and stuff like that. So I think it's solvable and I very much would like to see the government offer the low cost. There you have no excuses. As long as you have a laptop every single person can get a respected education and I think if you add AI to that we're in good shape. The American College Plan I'm all for it.

Meanwhile you are not surprised to learn that there are reports which are unconfirmed of all kinds of potential election cheating in Maricopa County. Now there are some claims in Wisconsin and maybe somewhere else where that weird pattern of votes going in a smooth line and then suddenly the Democrat vote goes straight up because there's a batch of votes that come in that's only for one person. That actually happened again. Now I've only seen the reports of it. Wisconsin is showing that it happened but the sudden increase in one vote didn't wasn't enough. In other words it was too big to rig. It was literally too big to rig if those reports are true. Now I'm having a little trouble believing that somebody would have cheated in exactly that way when it's exactly what we're looking for so it's got a little bit of the too on the nose to it. So I'm not going to say I believe it's true yet. So if you've seen a story about Wisconsin having a sudden surge in only Biden votes maybe maybe but just be aware that it's exactly the kind of thing that if there were a fake story it would look just like it. So I'm on the fence on this one so I'm not going to say that that's likely to be true or likely to be false. Let's just keep an eye on it see if we can find out for sure.

But likewise there's stories about Maricopa. I won't give you the details you can find that in the Gateway Pundit. Jordan Conradson writing about that. But we're in the fog of elections area and that means that there will be lots of claims that won't check out. There might be some claims that do check out and this might be one of them but it's too early to know.

And then this from Breitbart. Joel Pollak is writing that Iran is reportedly postponing its promised third ballistic missile attack on Israel. So Israel and Iran have been doing the you know if you bomb me I'm going to bomb you but you bomb me I'm going to bomb you back and in the last round Israel completely eliminated the air defenses of Iran. So Iran is sitting there with no air defense and suddenly at the same time they have no air defense they're saying you know what you know what maybe we should have I got an idea let me just run this past you what if instead of attacking Israel while we have no longer any air defense why don't we maybe see if we can make a deal when Trump gets in there. So that's what they're signaling. They're going to hold off in the hopes of reaching a deal with President-elect Trump who I call President Trump. What do you think of that?

Now on one hand of course they're just being practical because they just lost their air defenses so talking is sort of all they have left. You know what I mean? Well we can they haven't bombed our mouths yet so we can still talk let's talk. So I'm going to say it again Trump is the president-elect but he's also the symbol of the new age and he's also a legend. He's a legend in his own time. He's still with us. He just started his second term and he's a legend now. If you're a legend can you get a peace deal that somebody else can't get done? Yes you can.

So Trump has become what I call everybody's fake because. The fake because is something I've been teaching my audience for years now. It's the reason you give that's not the real reason. You just need a reason that sounds good and looks good and other people think it's a reason but your real reason might be something else and that's fine. So Iran would like to not be at war and not be destroyed so their fake because is oh hey hey new president so wouldn't it make sense to hold our fire until we see what the new president's up to? That's a fake because. The real because might be that they have no air defense.

Likewise over in Ukraine and Russia the current situation is who's going to win which is the wrong frame. Trump's going to come in as the legend who said he's going to end it in one day and then both parties who really want it to stop. Russia doesn't want the war. Ukraine doesn't want the war but they don't have a way to stop. So Trump comes in and he says I'm going to threaten both of you. I threaten you both. I don't just threaten Russia I threaten also Ukraine and I'm going to bring the biggest stick and I'm going to beat the out of both of you until you give us peace. What's that? That's a fake because because they don't need Trump because they don't want to be at war and they also every single person knows there's going to be a land for peace situation that looks about the way things look now. So Ukraine and Russia only need a fake because they don't need a real one. They only need a fake one and here it is. It's the fake because.

Because Trump. Does China want to have better relations with the United States? Probably because that would be good for them. Do you think that there are hardliners in China who are telling President Xi no no no we must destroy the United States we cannot be friends with them? Probably probably. What happens when Trump comes in then suddenly President Xi can say oh are you watching what's happening this guy's making peace plans all over the world he's revived the American economy he's rebuilding the military. You know guys I hear you your hardline stuff and I've been agreeing with you up to now but don't you think now would be the time to talk? And then President Xi gets a fake because because Trump.

So do you think you could get rid of DEI in the military without Trump? Nope there's nobody else who could do it. You need a loyalist in there and it looks like you'll have one. So the

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fake because that comes along with being a legend that escaped two assassination attempts and had the greatest third act of all of politics of all time that's really powerful. So the golden age could be completely unlocked with fake because just because Trump. You could just add because Trump in front of every piece of good news that you hear from now on. Why does Bill Ackman say that everybody's…

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