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onfirmed I would say, that the model/actress Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican. I don't know if that's true, but President Trump was asked what he thought about her in her commercial. And whoever was asking the question said that she's a registered Republican. And so Trump says she's great. He's a big fan now. Now that he knows she's a registered Republican. All right, that was the least…

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kind of, well, maybe you could just put it in the middle of an existing place. All you need is land.

Well, my point is nobody has a good idea to fix that problem. But I do think you could get the cost of building a house down to under $100,000 and it'd be like a three-bedroom, three-bath house. I think we can get there. And it'd be very livable. It wouldn't be like you compromised. It wouldn't be a tiny house. It'd be just like a full awesome house for $100,000. I think you could do that.

But Trump is focusing right now on pharmacy costs, pharmaceuticals. As you know, the pharmaceutical companies charge other countries way less than they charge in the United States. So we end up subsidizing all these other countries. And Trump doesn't like that. And he's going to use every tool in his arsenal to force drug manufacturers to lower the prices.

And one of the things that they're going to do is to cut out the middlemen and sell medicines directly to patients. Now you might say to yourself, who are these middlemen? Is it the pharmacy? Well, the pharmacy might be a middleman, but there's this other entity most of you have never heard of, a pharmacy benefits manager. Have you ever heard of that? It's not a person, it's a company with people.

So there are several large companies that take on the role of intermediaries. So that would be a middleman between drug manufacturers, the big pharma, and the health insurers. So you've got big pharma and then they've got to deal with these professional negotiators that manage the process because it's complicated. So they're middle people, too. But the trouble is they can totally game the system.

And these pharmacy benefit managers or PB

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Ms, if they negotiated a discount, if they wanted they could just keep it and there's nothing to stop them. It's not illegal. It's not even unethical. They're just managing that process there. So it seems like you could save a bunch of money by figuring out a way not to have that have to happen. But then there's also the pharmacy. So doesn't the pharmacy have some expense? I don't know. I hope th…

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