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do. And there was a pretty good argument there that if you allow that he had the power to declare something an emergency. So you'd have to accept that he has that power and it's not up to you to disagree with it. He just has that power. He can call it an emergency. And then if he does, there's a good argument that tariffs would be well within the normal range of tools that he would have at his dis…

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enario for a Democrat. But if we go out there and say we are Vermont, I don't know which states are in play, but go out there and say we're Vermont and we're going to join California in gerrymandering. Well all that's going to do is guarantee that every Republican state does it. I think every Republican state or most of them are going to do it just in case and just because they can. But if you're a Democrat you might say to yourself, "Why don't we just shut up about this and let California be our answer? They just matched Texas." As long as you're matching, there's not as much argument that you got to fight it. So I'm just wondering if Democrats are trying to lay low and see if it blows over. I don't think it will. I think Trump has already put out the word, you're going to gerrymander or else I'm going to make your life difficult. So surprise, Democrats possibly.

Are any of you following the story about the statins? You know the drug statins. I remember some years ago, it was quite a while ago, that my doctor did whatever test. So the statins are to lower your cholesterol and when my cholesterol test came back and it was already as low as you'd want it to be, I remember my doctor saying, "If your cholesterol were higher I'd put you on a statin." And then he told me that the studies were so positive for statins in unrelated areas that he said that if he could he would put every one of his patients on statins even if they didn't have any cholesterol problem because he said it was just so good for your health in just so many different ways. And the science was so clear that he would just put everybody on statins if it were up to him.

Now time goes by and the current thinking, and I don't know if it's real, all right? So I just know what I see on social media. So I can't claim to know that any of this is true. But people are saying really really bad things about statins. I don't know if you've noticed but now there's some indication, and again I'm not going to say th

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at I know that any of this is true but there is some indication that having low cholesterol makes you higher chance of getting diabetes. So we've got 92 million people on statins and many of them don't even have any heart disease. They're just told their cholesterol is too high. And because of that they may or may not be giving themselves a higher chance of getting a blood sugar disease. Now agai…

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