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eat that all he did was get on the phone and tell two warring countries, I'll give you bad trade deals unless you stop firing. And then they immediately just said, all right, all right. And they backed down. I feel like that might have been a case of what I call the fake because probably Cambodia and Thailand really really didn't want to be in a war — as in really really didn't want to, like real…

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ssage was for women because I feel like men always thought their profession was their identity. But here's what I think. So I think he's definitely on to something which is that we stopped valuing it and started valuing individual attainment. But I think it's a follow the money situation and for other countries it's also a follow the birth control. They may just have more birth control. It could be that if you eliminate the accidents, you know, your birth rate drops really fast.

But I would give you this advice. Don't get married until you can afford the divorce. That's the best marriage advice you'll ever get. Don't get married until you can afford the divorce. That was always my plan because the people giving you the worst advice were commenting to my comment and the worst advice is this. Don't worry about divorce. Just make sure you meet somebody that would never get divorced. How in the world do you think that you can identify the person who will never want a divorce? That's not a thing. Every person who gets married thinks that they found the one person that they could be with forever. And half of them are wrong and they get divorced. And of the ones that don't get divorced, I suspect half of them wish they had the money to get divorced.

So if you look at the odds, that whole idea of, well, I'm going to game the system by being so smart, I'll pick the best mate and we'll never have to worry about divorce. Well, okay. Some of you will get lucky, but the world is not full of awesome people where everybody can get one of those. Not so easy.

Trump says he's going to reduce his 50-day deadline he gave Putin to come up with something to do with peace in Ukraine. And after the 50 days, which now Trump is talking about reducing because he says he knows what Putin's going to say, which is no to peace, that I guess he's going to sanction him harder. So that's coming.

The Israeli government is reportedly opening up some humanitarian aid routes to get food to the starving Gaza people. I will remind you that I don't believe much of anything that comes out of the war zone. So everything that comes out of the war zone is either from one side or the other. And they're only going to release it if it makes their side look good, the other side look bad. So I don't know what caused the food not to get where it was going. I don't know whose fault that was, but if the kids get fed, that's good.

I will just point out that when Trump is asked about this, he frames it perfectly because they're trying to fool people like him into taking a side and saying, "Oh, Israel's bad." Or, "Oh, Israel's doing a great job and Hamas is the ones who's keeping the food from people." And I frankly have no idea what's going on because I don't believe anything that comes out of there. But when Trump was asked about it, he said, quote, "I'm looking for getting people fed right now." That's perfect. So if they try to get him to talk about the ethics and the morality and which side was good and which side was bad and who's lying, it's just a dead end. I mean, nothing good can come from that. So instead, he just makes you focus on the part that mattered. I'm looking for getting people fed right now. Nicely done.

Then he just says, "You have a lot of starving people and he wants the European nations to step up as well."

Senator Lindsey Graham believes that Trump and the Israeli leaders do not believe a ceasefire deal with Hamas is possible or maybe not desirable, which would be the same thing. You will recognize that opinion as the one I had at the beginning of the conflict. At the very beginning, I said, "You don't think that they're just going to give Gaza back, right?" I feel like I was the first one to say that out loud. And Israel was saying from the start that they were looking for, quote, total victory. What does total victory mean? It doesn't mean we give him a black eye and then put him back in business. That's not total victory. That's the opposite. Total victory looks like Japan after World War II or Germany after World War II where there's an unconditional surrender and one side completely redo the culture and education system and government of the conquered country.

So given that Hamas is never going to go the way

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of Japan or Germany, there's no realistic possibility they're going to say, "All right, you won fair and square. We're going to play along because that's our best bet." It's just not going to happen. So to act as if it might is crazy. So it looks like Lindsey Graham and Trump and Israel have all the same opinion that the one and only thing they can do is completely dominate Gaza, kill everybody in…

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