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ntioned which is age. I don't know that this is true but wouldn't you expect that alcohol use decreases with age? So if the new generation is smaller because we've got this demographic problem, wouldn't alcohol use just drop off just because of age? I think there would be some effect there. I don't know how big it would be but we'll talk later about how it affects crime. Anyway remittances to Mex…

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at. It's already been a while but she's got a 20-year sentence. And Dershowitz thinks that it would make sense to commute her sentence. Now it's been three years. So I'm doing this three years. Okay.

Now how many of you think that what she did fits a three or four year sentence? Because it literally involved trafficking minors. That's a tough argument. So I went to Grok and I asked if her sentence was in line with comparable court cases and sentences. And Grok basically threw up its hands because there's nobody who did a crime that's quite like that. It was over a length of time and involved lots of different variables and she may or may not have been coerced by Epstein. And part of Dershowitz's argument is that Maxwell was a victim too. So that she was a victim of Epstein as well as an accomplice. Now if that were true and you could prove it it would look like she had no choice with what she did or she got brainwashed or something. But I don't think we've seen any evidence that points in that direction, have we? To me she looked like she was a pretty happy participant. Yeah we only see pictures but who knows?

So the question you must ask yourself is is Dershowitz being influenced by any outside forces? And of course the most obvious thing that you would say is since you already suspect that Maxwell was part of the Mossad operation and you also believe that Dershowitz quite openly is very pro-Israel. Is it too much to imagine that Mossad said hey it's time to see if he could get her out because the longer she stays in the more risk we have that she talks and the sooner she gets out the better. Now I have zero evidence, zero evidence that any kind of influence is happening but I would look and see if any other lawyers have a similar opinion. If today you see five more lawyers who are in this field of law had the same opinion that that sentence was too long then I would say oh well I guess I'm no lawyer. So if normal lawyers who are just observing say it's too long well okay maybe there's something there. But if Alan Dershowitz is the only one who is willing to say anything like this and he's very public, there's no hidden agenda whatsoever but he's very pro-Israel, then you have to ask yourself how much of this is about Ghislaine Maxwell? How much of this is about the law? And how much of this is about whatever influence Alan Dershowitz might have or interests? I'll say influence and/or interests because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could be pushed around. So maybe it just makes sense to him on some level that we don't quite understand for whatever reason. I see in the comments somebody saying the CIA. Yeah you can make the same argument about the CIA being an influence on him. If you believe the CIA was somehow involved in the Epstein thing I don't see the evidence for that but it's not a crazy hypothesis.

Anyway so President Trump was asked about Iran. He says if they enrich then we're going to have to do it the other way. Meaning something military and I don't really want to do it the other way but we're going to have no choice. There's going to be enrichment. Now that's just a setup for the next thing I want to talk about. So Trump has very clearly said we're going to bomb your country unless you give us what we want on gi

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ving up your enrichment. Related to that I was watching a podcast with Matt Gaetz. He was talking to the author of a book called Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against the West. And this was on Newsmax and this was Dr. Walid Phares. Would that be the way you say it? Anyway so Dr. Phares recommended that Trump give a televised speech directly to the Iranian people. And he compared it to Reagan…

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