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public charter schools do better at teaching. But my guess is that the people who go to a public charter school have parents who are making sure that everything works out. If you had to guess, would the parents of the kids who got into the public charter schools be more supportive of good education than the average of everybody else? Probably not even close. I mean, if you are going to go through…

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rt of agreeing to be the visitor, not the host. The host always has the dominant position, not the visitor. Anyway, he is right about that.

Here is something that Zelensky said. He said the Ukraine’s constitution makes giving up land for peace impossible and should only be discussed at a trilateral meeting. Okay, those are two separate thoughts. One, that the constitution makes it impossible to give up land. Number two, they should only have discussions about giving up that land, the thing that is impossible, if it is a trilateral meeting. Remember I taught you that you can tell what people’s real thoughts are by their choice of words. Not what they say, but by their choice of words. So in other words, people will try to be fooling you with what they say, but sometimes you can tell their real intention by the specific words they chose to do it. Here is one of those cases. Why would anybody say impossible when we have a meeting to talk about doing it? We should make sure that three entities are there that is trilateral. Why would you even have the meeting to do the impossible? So Zelensky is saying it is impossible, but also saying that it is negotiable, but he is trying to get away with both. Now, I feel like it is probably not that negotiable, but not because of the Constitution. I do not think the Constitution is going to stop him. This is a guy who already cancelled elections. How much do you think the Constitution says? Oh, you know, the president can just cancel electio

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ns, you know, whenever they want. That is not in the Constitution. So to imagine that he cannot make peace and save his country because the Constitution says he cannot make this deal, that is ridiculous. He could just make the deal and then have the courts wail about it. But what are they going to do? Say, well I do not know. Technically the paperwork is not right. So we should go back to war. Who…

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