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're women. Yeah, you know, but we're not arguing the definition of words. We're just saying that biological men, they're stronger and so there's a risk and sort of an unfairness to the women. But they're women. They're women. It's a definition. By definition. Say it, say it, say it. They're women. And then they do the same thing with January 6th. They start with, first let's agree that this is an…

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is happened and then the magic would catch it every time it tried to happen again? No. The Russia collusion hoax was just a made-up whole thing. What about the fine people hoax which by the way, and was it NPR actually pushed the fine people hoax again I think yesterday? Now the media has never been real. And if you don't know that it's never been real historically it's really hard to understand that like it suddenly turned bad. But most people think well it was pretty good in the old days you know maybe it got a little worse but it's basically okay. No it has always been completely fake and there are reasons for it. There are structural reasons that guarantee it will be fake because people have interests and those interests have money and sometimes the writers, but nobody's really interested in the truth. They're interested in what works out for them.

Meanwhile TSMC, the big gigantic chip company that operates mostly in Taiwan, says they're going to put 100 billion dollars into the U.S. to build and support semiconductor manufacturing here. Now that sounds familiar right because we've had a few rounds of this company's going to do that, this company. So I saw Daniel Baldwin who works for OAN and he put together a list. So it's 100 billion from TSMC the chip company, Apple promised 500 billion for domestic manufacturing, something called Zepbound 27 billion, 100 billion from SoftBank, 20 billion from DAC I don't know what that is, 500 billion from Stargate, 600 billion from Saudi Arabia. Now those numbers start adding up don't they?

The other thing that's important that Trump understands better than anybody's ever understood it is that sometimes you have to BS a little bit about how things are going and then everybody's like, really? Everything's going in that direction? Everybody, there's a big list of people putting a lot of money in there. I better get on board. It's how I get attention. It's how I make the government like me. It's how I get the public to like me. Looks like it's a trend. So these type of deals are being really well promoted and the promotion

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is probably as important as the dollar amounts at least in the early stages because you need a lot more but you want everybody to think everybody's doing it. Like you need people to just think oh this is the thing now. This is what we do. And I think he's actually achieved that. Eric Daugherty on X says that HP is looking to move a lot of their operations from China to the U.S. in response to Tru…

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