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ne and then the deal would be signed and at least during his term probably Putin would pull back. Now I don't know that that would last forever but Trump would be able to claim victory if he got a good deal and then he said look four years and Putin, well I guess it'd be three years and Putin has pulled his military back. Everything's looking good. But if that didn't happen and the deal blew up t…

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chance whatsoever of passing unless something outside of the legal process happened which I hope not.

So let me say unreservedly I am not in favor of a third Trump term. Not in favor. Now I might be if we didn't have JD Vance and others who are pretty strong. But I feel like Trump has now set the stage. He created the frame and the Republicans have a pretty good bench. They've got some strong players. So once he sort of created this idea of what can work and what can be popular it seems to me that you don't need somebody who's in his mid 80s and everybody's calling him a dictator because he served more than two terms however it happens. So I'm against it. I don't want a president who's that age. You know what a third term would look like. I don't want that age. Although I must say Trump currently he just looks great for his age. He looks great.

Anyway remember I told this story about Norway. Norway had this big fuel depot that would fuel American warships that were in the area around Norway and they were mad about the Zelensky meeting so they decided that they wouldn't sell fuel to the American Navy around Norway. And I said what kind of an idea is that? They've decided to punish themselves by making less money and being less safe because it's not like we're going to rush to protect them if they're not going to sell us fuel for naval ships.

Well it took about one day for the government of Norway to say, this is again Michael Lee from Fox News, the government of Norway to say no we don't mean that. No we're totally going to sell you fuel. Everything's fine. Don't worry about that. So there must have been some crazy person in charge of that big fueling company in Norway. They straightened that out.

According to Unusual Whales on X, Pete Hegseth, he's the Defense Secretary, has told Mexican officials that if Mexico didn't deal with what he calls the collusion between the country's government and the drug cartels the US military was prepared to take unilateral action. Actually this is per the Wall Street Journal. And then the New York Times reported that the cartels were, I don't know how much you can believe. You tell me if this even sounds believable. Do you believe that the cartels are literally afraid already because if they go to sleep their house might blow up? And it says there are people who are shutting down their fentanyl labs and people are not sleeping in one place and that they're all worried and that the government of Mexico probably working with the US has already arrested a whole bunch of people and severely weakened the Sinaloa cartel. Do you believe that? I don't know. It's hard to imagine that it could be true that Mexico is making great inroads weakening the cartels at the same time that Hegseth is complaining that the government is working with the cartels. Now obviously that could be different people. The leaders maybe not but maybe the middle people maybe yes. Just speculating.

So I've always imagined it's a hybrid situation where some members of the government are just absolutely on the take and support the cartels one

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way or another and maybe some people aren't. And the people who aren't probably get killed. So in the long run it seems like they would all be supporting the cartels or they'd be dead. So I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of the Mexican gover

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