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hat's what Joe Biden did. And that's what we should expect from the party. So even Randi Weingarten, the head of the biggest teachers union and one of the biggest Democrat supporters, is completely aware that the party is not even focusing on the main people that they would need to focus on to get back in power, the working class. And then James Carville who remains entertaining but he is one of…

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think this is the time for Trump to attack. Which is notable because he's a general and he knows what he's talking about. But he was on Benny Johnson's podcast and General Flynn said, "No, do not do it, Mr. President. Right now is not the time." Now he's talking about using the bunker busters. He says, "Don't lose focus of why you were elected. You have options." And as General Flynn points out, it's a good strategy to have the most options you could have until the last minute. Now that's a really good summary. And it also explains Trump's strategy pretty well. He wants the most options for the longest period of time. The most options for the longest period of time. And that's what the two-week delay gives him. The two-week delay creates an option that maybe Europe will come up with a deal that the US couldn't come up with. Maybe the Israeli forces could do something on the ground to get into those underground bases. So your options will and then of course he's moving more assets into the area that increases options. So Trump is very much following this plan of keeping the most options open until the last minute. So hearing that summarized by General Flynn is kind of good for my confidence. So we'll see.

In other news, I saw a post by Marina Medvin and some other people are talking about this that apparently there's a writer for the Washington Post who once worked for Al Jazeera who's posting the exact coordinates of successful Iranian missile strikes in Israel. And the problem with that is that if the Iranians are trying to tune their missiles to be more accurate, that one of the things they would want to know is the exact place that the existing missiles hit. So why would the Washington Post feel it necessary to print the GPS coordinates? It's not as if when you read the newspaper, the Washington Post, it's not like you're gonna say, "Oh, uh-huh. I see the GPS coordinates. Now I know more." That would have no value to a consumer of the Washington Post. It would only have value to the people who are firing the missiles so they can know how accurate they are and adjust accordingly.

Now that's one point of view. I think Bill Ackman is asking the same questions like why are you doing that? Is there a reason? Because if you don't have a reason for printing the exact GPS coordinates of the missile landings, why are you doing it?

Others have said, pushing back on that point of view, that the Iranians have satellite imagery and they can tell what they hit so that it's not actually news to them. But I would ask, well if it doesn't help the reader of the Washington Post, because it's not like you and I are going to look at GPS coordinates and go, "Ah, okay. Yeah, it's a 53424." Yeah. That's what I thought. So there's no value to the reader and if it were true there's no value to the Iranian regime firing the rockets, why would you do it? So it's sort of an open question. So my guess is that Iran might not have the ideal satellite view of the battlefie

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ld. So I don't know what assets they have, but there's got to be some reason that those are included in the Washington Post. Former Vice President Mike Pence is speaking up about the existential identity crisis that the Trump supporters and the political right is going through. Now how many of you think that there's some kind of permanent Trump supporter split that's happening that will somehow s…

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