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laims of DOGE because I feel like the DOGE claims, if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes, what was your…

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time they've done a video to say, oh yeah, if you come for us, we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you. And so they've done it before. But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly.

So Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything, but they're willing to have indirect talks. And that's the way they say it. They say would be willing to negotiate indirectly. And I guess they're unwilling to talk directly as l

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ong as sanctions are on. So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions. And I can see why they would have that point of view. But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this. I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything. I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed. So if they didn't build all those missile cities, you know,…

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