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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…

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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 they're talking to Mark Cuban about all this stuff. He would know the most about that world because he's doing direct sale of meds to consumers, I believe. So that means he would have already cracked or he would have an idea of how to attack this problem.

And the PBMs often steer patients to their own pharmacies. So that's another conflict of interest. Basically, you've got a situation where these middlemen could, if they wanted to, I'm not saying they are, but they could totally abuse customers because customers have no visibility on what they're doing.

Well, I have a feeling that CNN has discovered that when their dating guy Harry Enten does a clip or he does an appearance, it always gets better ratings because he's just so damn charismatic. But also, he often tells the truth about how well Trump is doing in some of the poll numbers. But this he went to a whole new level this time.

He did a segment where he said that Donald Trump is the most influential president of this century and probably dating back a good portion of the last century. And he said that the big reason is what Trump did to change immigration and what he did with tariffs and more executive orders than anybody except FDR. So that's sort of his own definition of what's influential.

But I love the fact that CNN's ratings probably zoom or at least the clips get a lot of play, you know, wherever they're saying clips. So maybe we'll see more of Harry saying good things about Trump.

There's a clip of Jasmine Crockett, who is only famous for being so dumb, which is funny. She doesn't know that, but if all Republicans ignored her, she would have no attention at all. But the reason that Republicans don't ignore her is not because she's a worthy opponent. It's because she's amusingly stupid and she was recently on MSNBC and she was talking about ID mandates for mail-in ballots and she said our numbers fell in Texas after ID mandates for mail-in ballots. To which I say you're not supposed to say that in public. If there were fewer mail-in ballots because ID was required, that would sort of suggest that you used to have maybe potentially some fake voters and fake ballots. So you're n

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ot supposed to say that. I saw that in the End Wokeness post on X. And speaking of low IQ, that's what President Trump calls Charlamagne tha God. So apparently Charlamagne, he did an interview with Lara Trump recently and he thinks that the conservatives are going to use the Epstein files story to take back control of the GOP from Trump. Does that sound like something that's going to happen? It…

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