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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 b…

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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 Hamas and probably depopulate it because otherwise it just reconstitutes the way it was.

So I would expect nothing to happen about a ceasefire. You're not going to see a ceasefire anytime soon.

And I would like to give you a way to know you won a debate. If you get into lots of debates with people, as I find I often do on X, if the other person's point depends on making up your opinion and putting it in quotes, you can declare a victory, you don't need to debate anymore. Because if somebody has a real point, they'll say, "You said," and then they'll quote you correctly and then they'll make their point about it if they have a good point. If they don't have any point at all, a frequent thing that people who have no point do will say, "Well, you said," and then they'll put quotes around something that you definitely didn't say and would never have said, and then they'll demand that you defend the thing that they just made up. That happened to me twice yesterday. Twice people quoted me just making up something. It wasn't anything I said. They just made it up and put it in quotes and said, "Well, if you're saying this, that means you..." You won. If somebody misquotes you, you don't need to go on. That is your victory right there.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I have for you today. I'm going to talk privately to the locals

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people, the beloved locals people. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. We'll be here tomorrow, same time, same place. Sorry I missed yesterday. I had just an insane stomach problem. I feel as though I have the same problem today. I just decided to power through it and pretend I'm not in severe pain. But it seems like it might be a reaction to my new meds because apparently that's a known side…

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