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ng coming back to America, you're going to need lots of people who can just do practical things and they don't need to read Shakespeare to do it. So I'm glad the government sort of understands the reality of the world that way. However, it's even better. Google apparently has launched an ambitious program, this is according to Clean Technica, to train 100,000 electrical workers for the AI-powered…

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en we might see if we can control the media. So if you turned on the television in Greenland it would say people really want independence, meaning joining America. People really want this. And so then the public would start to think that there's this gigantic natural organic movement toward whatever the thing is, but it's really just driven by us.

Now I don't know how far we would go in this so-called color revolution, but the fact that it's public knowledge that we're increasing our spy campaign to figure out which of the locals are on our side, it's kind of hilarious. So we don't even try to hide it. It's just fully transparent. Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message to the intelligence agencies to collect as much information as possible. Now I am again genuinely curious what is the breakdown in the actual public because I think it depends how the question gets asked. I think there's a way to ask the question where the locals would say hell no and there's probably a way to phrase the question where the locals would say huh maybe or even yes so you have to be careful how you ask the question.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the fentanyl question is a key to the fact that the US and China are going to be talking about trade when some of our people are in Switzerland for other reasons. Well China was going to be in Switzerland for other reasons and we decided to meet them there to talk about it. I think that happens this weekend. Now the way it's being reported by the Wall Street Journal is that China started using the fentanyl opening as a way to sort of get things moving because we were stuck and they didn't quite know how to unstick things but they thought if they can just ask some questions about fentanyl and the questions were what exactly do you want us to do which is a good first question. So I've been fascinated watching China navigate the dignity part of this where Trump acted like a big bully and then China quite reasonably said you can't bully us. So this can't look like bullying or it's going nowhere. But how do you get out of that frame? Well you have people meet in Switzerland instead of the US or China. That's a good start because it seems like it's just Switzerland and it just doesn't seem like it's a direct thing

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. And then you have them asking, well what would you like us to do about fentanyl? As if it's just a separate, unrelated, perfectly reasonable question, which it is. And apparently the US answer is that among other things they want China to send the message out to the makers of the fentanyl precursors that the penalties will be severe. Now I don't know if that's ever going to happen because I don'…

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