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te by a lot. So as you know at least one person has admitted to having access to the autopen. I think there were more and we'll learn more about that. But Neera Tandon said that she I guess she told Congress when asked that she would use the autopen without actually verifying from Joe Biden that he gave the order. Now wait a minute. Let me say that again. That the person operating the autopen ap…
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So the person doing the autopen literally did not know if it came from the president. Does that seem like a problem? Yeah, that seems like a problem. It's bigger than Watergate.
Anyway, according to Newsmax, the gross domestic product did not look good for this quarter, but the special case or reason for it is because people were buying a bunch of foreign goods in anticipation of tariffs. So you can't really look at the GDP for this quarter, this most recent quarter that they're reporting. That would be sort of a non-standard number this time, but they think it will bounce back to a good number next time we see it. And whatever happened in the April to June quarter is unlikely to be repeated. So that's good.
So there's a post on X by Konstantin Kisin, who if you're on X you probably know him. So he's what would I call him? He has one of the biggest podcasts, Trigonometry. He's one of the two who do that. And he's often debating people on other podcasts and he's very active on social media, but he's very well-informed and very smart. But he's the only person reporting that there's some kind of maybe deal coming up with Gaza and Israel and the Middle East.
So I'm going to say I don't believe this is true, but he says that there are reports that Trump and Netanyahu have made a deal and it hasn't been announced yet. Now I'm going to read you what Konstantin says is reportedly a deal, but I'll tell you in advance, I don't believe any of it. So I checked with Grok and Grok could not find any independent reporting that agreed, but only because Konstantin Kisin is a highly credible commentator. If it were someone else, I probably wouldn't even read it, but I'll let you know what he thinks based on sources that he has that are unnamed.
So he thinks that there might be a deal to end the Gaza war in two weeks, which is possible. It's possible because you could certainly imagine that Trump would want to take the goodwill he's garnered in the Iran situation and maybe use it to put a little pressure on Israel or get something done. So that part, I doubt it just because the Gaza situation seems so intractable. But maybe it's entirely possible that they might announce some kind of a framework. You know, they would take a long time to implement, but maybe.
Next thing that Konstantin reports says is being reported is that Gaza would be governed by four neighboring countries. To which I say maybe because that does make sense in terms of how in the world would you ever solve this problem. You would almost certainly need some non-Israel, non-US, non-Hamas leadership. And it does make sense that having only one of them would create a whole new problem. So if you said let's say Saudi Arabia is going to monitor or manage Gaza well immediately that would turn into Saudi Arabia would become a target and there'd be bad will there but suppose you said four of the closest neighbors were all going to jointly be part of it maybe they would be helping economically. But if there were four of them, you'd feel like, oh, okay, that really is neighbors helping out a difficult situation.
Now, again, I'm not predicting any of this is going to happen, but it's possible. It's within the realm of possible. Then the third part, if any of this turns out to be true, is that Hamas leaders would be exiled. I don't see anything else you could do with them, right? You'd have to exile them. Otherwise, they stay underground in Gaza and you can never solve anything. So while I don't love the idea of them staying alive, and Israel wouldn't love it either, it's entirely possible. It's the only way you could make a deal.
So is it possible? Yeah, it's possible. Again, I'm going to bet against it because I'm a little bit pessimistic on this particular topic, but it's possible.
Here's the part that I think is the red flag for this not being real. That the fourth element would be a two-state solution that would be agreed by Israel and for the West Bank. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Netanyahu would agree to a two-state solution with all of those Israeli settlements that are in the West Bank? Does that sound real? So that's the part that tells me maybe, but that seems really unlikely to me. You know, maybe like a 2 percent chance, something like that.
And then the last one is that several new countries would join the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel. Certainly, if
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there were an agreed upon, reasonable conclusion for Gaza, that would lead to more people joining the Abraham Accords, that'd be a big deal. So that's possible. But there's no word about hostages or where do the refugees live for the many years it would take to make Gaza livable again and do they all get to move back and who exactly is going to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza and all that. So I'm…
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