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ngs that aren't true. It's the main tool. And the Overton window takes it away. It's brilliant. I've never seen anybody do it like that before but it's brilliant. So here's where we're getting close to the line of what is too far. And I do not mind when the Trump administration gets close to the line of what's going too far because often that's the only place that works. Sometimes you got to be c…

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hat requires a little bit of explanation. Interestingly Joel Pollak's book The Agenda which came out in the summer suggests this very thing, that the US should have a sovereign wealth fund. It's one of many suggestions in the book. It's a book full of suggestions of what Trump could do in the beginning of his term. And it was a great book. You should see it.

So here's what a sovereign wealth fund is. It's basically where a country can make investments and then it just keeps in the fund and then the country has access to that fund for whatever they might need it for later, which could be more investments. So the types of things that would be in this fund would be for example let's say if Trump gets his way with TikTok and he said hey the government in the United States should own half of it because if I don't approve its sale it will be worth zero. So if the government has to be involved to make it have value we should keep part of the value. So let's say that the government gets a bunch of shares of TikTok and the sale goes through and maybe Ellison or somebody buys it and then a few billion dollars worth of value just gets in stock, gets put in this fund. Now we could sell it or we could ride it because if we think it's going up and it's a good investment, well we keep it.

Then here's another thing. Suppose the Special Forces start making real progress against the cartels. I'm told that one of the biggest things that the cartels do to fund their operation is gigantic pallets of cash because obviously they don't

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want to write checks for their illegal business. So they have to move gigantic shipments of physical cash. Suppose the Special Forces go after the cartels and figure out where their giant bundles of cash are. Well who does that belong to? Does it belong to MEIO? Does it belong to whoever finds it? Well I would say it belongs to the United States government. So we take their big piles of cash and j…

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