his five senators that maybe he could push toward deficit reduction or something. So we'll see if he follows up on that.

I know that whatever we're doing now isn't the best system. So I don't know. Would he make it better or worse?

How many of you believe that the Russian economy has been suffering because of the war? Didn't you sort of think that was true? Didn't you believe that the Russian economy must be sputtering? Well, maybe your news didn't tell you that for the past two years the Russian economy has been zooming. Now it's probably because of the stimulus of having a war, so it's not a permanent situation, but now there's some reporting that maybe their economy after two years assuming might be a little bit weaker. I don't think so. I think if we're waiting for Russia's economy to falter and then we'll negotiate, I don't think we should wait for that.

Well, Trump continues to say that he's got a TikTok deal pretty much done that would allow some American or at least non-Chinese investors to buy it if it can only get China to agree. But when it comes to China agreeing, he's going to be talking to them next week, I guess. And he says when asked if he's confident that China would approve the sale of TikTok to an American consortium, probably, he said, I'm not confident, but I think so. President Xi and I have a great relationship, and I think it's good for them. The deal is good for China, and it's good for us.

So does that sound like he's going to succeed? To me that sounds like China's not going to give up on this unless they get some big trade concession. So in order for Trump to satisfy his investors who are probably also Trump supporters, the ones who have agreed to buy TikTok, so in order to get that done, the question I would ask is, is he going to have to throw the rest of us under the bus by not pushing China as hard as he could on trade? I don't know. I'd be a little bit concerned about what China asked for in response, as in, well, we really, really don't want to sell TikTok, but we might be willing to do it if you just drop this whole trade war thing and give us AI chips. There's probably something they're willing to ask for that would make it worth it for them to sell TikTok, which they don't want to do.

And also TikTok is how they can brainwash our country. So China might just say it's not even about economics. It's entirely about having a platform that can control minds in America.

Anyway, so the Democratic National Committee is sharpening their attacks on Trump and their new approach is that Trump is quote killing the American dream through price hikes and his big beautiful bill. So does that sound like a good attack? Trump is killing the American dream again. There's no image that goes with that. So it's not visual persuasion. It doesn't exactly ring true. I don't imagine it would ring true for — I don't know. I can't put myself in the head of Democrats. Maybe for young people who believe that everything is too expensive so they'll never own a house. So if their message is he's killing the American dream through price hikes, you'd have to give examples of those price hikes. And at the moment inflation is not bad. So they would be Democrats look to be hooking their horse, so to speak, to an argument that is the opposite of the data, which they always do. It's the most common thing they do is come up with an argument that's opposite of the data.

Anyway, so that's their best idea. So the new hoax, the new Democrat hoax would be that Trump is preventing the American dream instead of creating it.

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