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hey're exceptions. But if Trump gets five, even though they're maybe 200 that you need to get, if he gets five, let's say in a two week period, it's going to look like everything's going the right direction, and that would be a good time to own stock, I would think. I don't know if you're following the story of the DNC, the Democrat leadership, where David Hogg is getting a lot of heat because he…

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g at the criticism that's coming in from the dumb people. So somebody is criticizing me for not being expert in deals. Well, surprise. I'm actually expert in deals. I used to be a contract negotiator for a living. And then when I became a cartoonist, I was deeply involved in contract negotiations my entire career because there were always licensing and publishing deals etc. So I actually am an expert in deal making and I'm also an expert in persuasion which is part of negotiation. So sorry I'm kind of an expert in this domain. I hate to disappoint you. You're going to have to come up with some new Nazi strategy. That one didn't work.

All right. There are lots of things I talk about in which I am not an expert such as anti-drone technology but no, deal making, that happens to be one of my domains.

RFK Jr. also made some news according to the National Pulse. He claims that DARPA might be mixing some kind of chemtrail agents into commercial jet fuel. What? How could you make that kind of accusation in public without somehow being able to check it if you're part of the government? If you thought that the fuel of commercial jets was intentionally tampered with to do geoengineering so that the jet exhaust was doing more than just being jet exhaust and was changing the environment somehow and you thought that it was DARPA that was behind it. Is there not kind of a simple way to confirm that? Can't you say to President Trump, could you talk to DARPA and just ask them because you can declassify anything? Just ask them if they're doping the jet fuel. I feel like this one's a little premature. Doesn't mean he's wrong. I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying I feel like that one should have been confirmed before it became a public accusation. So maybe he's getting a little ahead of himself unless he's really confident that DARPA is doing that. And I'm not saying they're not. Not saying they're not doing it, but we need to know more about that.

As Breitbart and others are reporting, the GDP for America was weak in the first quarter. Of course, I think Trump is blaming Biden and there was a bunch of distortions because people ordering things ahead of the potential tariff stuff. So we don't know if that GDP number is telling us anything really important, but maybe it is. Maybe it is. So how many of you would be surprised if the country goes into a mild recession before it improves? Isn't that kind of baked into the process? I'd be surprised if it didn't happen. So I'd expect a little bit of a recession at the least. I mean, anything could be worse and anything could be better, but I think it was Jamie Dimon who said this that the best case scenario is a mild recession. I think he's probably right. That's probably the best case scenario, but it is the best case scenario because if we have a mild recession followed by a rapid return and maybe to a higher point once the trade deals are getting signed, I'd be happy with that.

According to Frank Luntz, famous poll

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ster, he talked to a bunch of people who voted for Trump and he wondered if they were still backing Trump given that they were feeling some economic pain and probably were going to feel some more. And he said that it's unprecedented that Trump voters still stand behind Trump despite the economic pain. Luntz said on CNBC, "I've never seen this before." Because usually when you're hurt economically,…

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