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anything about it. Nope, nope, surprise. You can't prove we knew anything about it." And maybe it will go away. But it could be such an important funding source that they might have a money problem, and maybe the money problem would be enough to give them a big problem. We'll see. Anyway, Trump has ordered an attack on the Houthis. Now, if you're not keeping up with this, the Houthis are a group…

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story books will say? Because it's not true. Or will they say that the protesters were trying to save the country from what they thought was an obvious insurrection by the left, and they were trying to make sure that the election had not been rigged because it certainly looked like it had? Or will the history book say, well, there are two points of view on this. Some people say this, some people say that.

I don't remember history books ever doing that. Do you remember any history that you've ever read where the history was, well, you know, some interpreted it this way, some interpreted it that way? No, they just sort of told you what happened, and then you got tested on it. So what are they going to tell your children what happened? And does the federal government have any way to control that, or should they? Maybe the federal government should stay out of it, but the state government gets to buy the textbooks, right? So the market will decide. And so if the state government in blue states decides, oh, we'll buy these textbooks to say Republicans are the devil, then they will. And if Texas and Florida say, get those textbooks out of here because we're not going to sell propaganda to our children, well, then that's what'll happen in those states.

So I feel like we're at the verge of having two different histories, a blue state history and a red state history. And I don't know, does the federal government have anything to say about that? Should they? I don't know. I don't have an answer for this one. It's just a big problem if we can watch history being written incorrectly right in front of us. And I think that's going to happen.

Meanwhile, in Mexico, a truly scary thing happened. So Mexican authorities found some kind of fairly huge crematorium for getting rid of people. Now, I can't tell if it was for cremating people who were already dead or the worst thing, that maybe that's how they killed those people. But apparently they just found hundreds of shoes and clothing, meaning that there were hundreds of people involved. And there are human bones. And obviously it was a cartel operation in the western state of Jalisco. And it might be the Jalisco cartel. I don't know, maybe that's right.

But here's the big picture. Apparently there are 120,000 what are called forcibly disappeared people in Mexico. 120,000. Now, this is over multiple years, of course, but there are 120,000 people who presumably were rounded up by cartels and just disappeared. Well, for t

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hat volume, you would have to have some way to get rid of a lot of bodies. And horribly, this might be how they did it. Incredible. Anyway, you heard about the activist judge, an Obama appointee, of course, who said that Trump can't use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to get rid of the Venezuelan gangs. So apparently there was some kind of old law on the books that Trump was using to say, all right, y…

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