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me because they show it so obviously. Is that your experience men that when a woman is interested in you, you know it so easily. It's never a surprise, is it? So anyway, according to Daniel Greenfield, he's writing that one in three Americans feel lonely every week and one in five feel lonely every day. And less than half of households are headed by married couples now and 63% of single people ar…

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? So he monetizes the Ukraine Russia war, which I have to admit is kind of smart, just monetizing it. And then you could wait as long as you want. Like your whole who wants to blink first is totally answered. Well we're not going to blink. We're making money. We'll just keep making money. If you guys want to keep fighting, go ahead. But now Trump has monetized fentanyl because we assume that China won't do enough to stop the flow because they probably want it to keep going. But we'll just keep charging them 20% extra tariff. So do I want the fentanyl trade to be stopped? Yes of course. But if you know you can't stop it, why not monetize it? Now Trump could never say that out loud that he's just monetizing the horrific fentanyl trade because it's killing people like crazy. But if your option is it's going to happen anyway, you might as well monetize it. There's something about that that I hate and I love at the same time. I just love the fact that Trump keeps finding ways to monetize our problems. If he can't solve them, you might as well monetize them. Charge other countries for it.

Okay. Well if you're watching the drama with Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Trump wants him to quit. He thought about firing him but he says he's not going to fire him, which the markets liked because they thought the idea of Powell getting fired for what would be no legitimate cause at this point would be a bad move. So if Trump ever wanted to do that, he says he's backed off it or he never thought about it. I don't know which, but he says he won't do it. Now the exception would be if they found some malfeasance or corruption or something that we don't know about, and then there would be a reason to do it, and then he could do it. But one of the reasons, the potential reasons might be that the Fed is building a new headquarters and I guess it was like 2.5 billion dollars they needed just for renovations and some of it looked a little extreme. So Bill Pulte — he's the head of federal housing, director of federal housing. He's volunteered to take a tour of the construction project because he's an expert on construction. That's his background. And to let us know if there's anything that looks corrupt there. As in, how could you possibly spend 2.5 billion just renovating? I mean if you were building it from scratch, maybe, but renovating 2.5 billion and that would be an interesting idea. So if Trump agrees to that, I guess Trump could probably authorize that. You might see Bill Pulte doing a tour of the headquarters construction project and letting us know if Jerome Powell should be fired.

Now as far as I can tell, Jerome Powell would never spend a day in that new headquarters, right? Because his term is over in May no matter what. And I can't imagine they'd be done with this project by May. So it doesn't seem like he's building this project for his own consumption. But there might be something going wrong here in terms of who got the contracts or just essentially managing the project correctly. There may be poor management here. So Bill Pulte might find enough to make a move there. Give Trump enough ammunition to make a move. And by the way, if you're not following the career of Bill Pulte, you really should pay attention because I'm going to tell you right now, he could be one of your future presidents. If you're not already keyed into that idea, start paying attention. He has the full talent stack and he's clearly highly America first super patriot and he doesn't need the job. You know he's

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very successful in his life. He doesn't need the work. But he's putting in serious serious work into making our country better. So keep an eye on Bill Pulte. He has the entire talent stack to take it as far as he wants. I don't know how far he wants, but he could go as far as he wants. Let's see. Today is the day that there's a national protest against Trump, right? That is the day, July 17th. Th…

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