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rehensive tariffs just as a negotiating tool but don't assume that we're going to do a smart thing that could easily be done the smart way and people have done it the smart way forever. That Trump will be the only one who will do it the dumb way. So here's how you do immigration the dumb way. The dumb way would be on day one go get all the farm workers. I mean seriously do you think that the bord…

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accept that he would get rid of the criminals and maybe the most recent arrivals first and if we could ever get to the end of that pile which I don't think we can well then maybe you look at some other stuff but we would do it smartly.

Anyway according to one report the US government loses between two hundred billion and five hundred billion to fraud every year. To fraud. Up to half a trillion dollars to fraud every year. Are you kidding me? To fraud every year. What kind of fraud are we talking about anyway? Elon Musk made a comment that maybe DOGE can do something about fixing that. There has to be some kind of transparency change that can happen.

Now I've been saying forever that the United States is doomed unless we fix this one part of our system. You cannot have local city officials deciding who gets what contracts. As soon as you do that they all turn into criminals because it's just too easy to give it to your friend and take a bribe. So I think the law needs to be changed somehow that there needs to be some either transparency or oversight or something but otherwise all local cities just attract criminals. It's kind of like I say about shoe salesman. If you see somebody who's a shoe salesman who's been working in the lady shoe sales department probably has a foot fetish. Just saying follow the money follow the fetish.

Well do you remember Dr. Deborah Birx from the pandemic days? Of course you do. She was a sort of a right-hand person to Fauci and she says she backs RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services. How about that? And she hopes for transparency. Well here's my take. I don't need and nobody needs your nomination your backing Dr. Birx. Dr. Birx is a backer of the drinking bleach hoax. She was on the stage and listened to Trump very specifically talk about

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light as the disinfectant and can the light be brought into the body to be disinfectant which was being trialed at that time was literally being tested or being set up to test at that time. And she allowed the media to say that he said how about drinking bleach and she never corrected that. I she's one of the people I just hate with a passion. I just hate this lady because this was a big big up no…

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