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looks terrible to me. According to Elon Musk, Doge has discovered 100,000 active federal employees who are also collecting unemployment insurance. Jim Hoft and the Gateway Pundit are writing about that. Now I think I've told you before that my current view is that I'm not going to believe any of the Doge claims. I'll just tell you that that claim is out there, but probably it's not exactly what i…

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ct, you know, because I think we would just complicate things at this point. So those two just need to work it out.

I guess Germany's new government is already threatening Russia that if they don't do a ceasefire, they're going to put new sanctions on them. So Germany is trying to be helpful there. And of course the Ukrainians and the Russians are just full-on drone war on the front.

So ladies and gentlemen, I think you can see that this is one of the best weeks that Trump has ever had. And if half of these things go in the right direction — you know, if the wars look like they're winding down, the prices of stuff look like they're winding down, and did I mention that China and the United States have agreed to delay for 90 days the big tariffs? So both countries have pulled back their tariffs. Now that's probably the big reason the market is up. And that's exactly what we wanted. I always say the stupidest people in the comments are the ones who just say, "I don't understand the topic." Like you couldn't fit a reason in there.

So anyway, Zelensky had his pants on backwards. Yeah, it looked like that in one of the pictures, but I think Scott Bessent probably did some good work. I think the main thing is just to get China and the United States to think that they're negotiating productively. Will that lead to anything good? I don't know. I saw Joel Pollak mention that it'll save Christmas because there'll be enough toys for Christmas from China. But it also puts us in a stronger negotiating position than we've been in. So we have China's full attention. They know that Trump would be willing to tariff the hell out of them. But one of the things that Scott Bessent said, and maybe this is the thing that China wanted the most, is that neither China nor the United States want to decouple. So I wonder if China was just really afraid of decoupling because there are a lot of people in the United States who do want to decouple such as me. But there are a number of industries etc. like the high-end Apple phones. There's nobody else who can make them. So the low-end ones I guess you can make in India but the high-end ones require more special processes or whatever and so i

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t looks like we're stuck with China and China is stuck with us on a bunch of different levels. You know we can't really quickly get all the pharmaceutical products. We can't quickly get all the tech stuff, the assembly. We can't quickly get all the rare earth minerals, etc. So we're kind of stuck with each other for a while. And it looks like maybe we're heading in the right direction. So everyth…

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