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roblem, or you're disabled, or you're in a dangerously abusive relationship. Don't we all have gigantic problems? And that's life that we're all navigating our own little problems. But why do some people have special problems that my money needs to go away from me where I would be using it for my own problems and my family's problems and that sort of thing. So who gets to say that any class of pe…

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and then, but I'm not obsessed by it. I'm not addicted to it. So you can keep your pets if you want to. I mean, I'm not going to tell you they're great or anything. That would be Gary. Gary, I'm sorry. That would be Roman. Gary believes that all human contact is incredible.

Okay, we'll be knocking things on the floor. Anyway, PJ Media's Matt Margolis is writing about how Florida I've got a two-cat wrestling situation going on here. So it's going to get intense in a moment. Let me just give you a preview of what's about to develop here. Yeah. You don't like it when I pay attention to you. They're going to fight. All right, you watch that while I tell you the news.

So Florida is going to get into redistricting, which would be part of a larger move where the Republicans are going to make a big gain on redistricting. That's enough of that. So I'll tell you the Democrats, it looks like they're going to lose the redistricting game and they're going to lose it big. Oh well.

Speaking of Greta Thunberg, she's now boarded a boat to go break the siege, as she says, in Gaza. And she's saying that Israel can't stop her this time. Hm. Israel can't stop Greta. How many journalists have been slain in Gaza so far? Because I would say that Israel stopped them. Stopped 200 journalists. Some of them might have been actually closer to Hamas operatives than journalists, but they managed to stop 200 of them. Do you think they can stop one more? I think they can.

Now, I don't think that Israel would intentionally target Greta, but you know, it's a war zone. Things happen. Things happen. No, I don't think that they care because I don't think Greta has enough pull that it would even be worth targeting her. She seems like a sort of a ridiculous character now cuz one of the things that happened is she got a lot older except the way she looks. So she looks like one of those troll dolls. What were they called? Were they called troll dolls that had the little You know what I'm talking about? So she's no longer the cute young person who's so young that that's what makes it special. Now she's exactly the same as she was, except she's older and it kind of doesn't work anymore. Kind of doesn't work.

So we'll see if she can solve that whole Gaza thing. But it turns out that according to the New York Post, there's some big plan. I don't know to what extent Trump is behind this, but it's being announced that there would be a Gaza rebuilding plan. It would be a 10-year plan to move out all the residents, all of them, just move everybody out so that it can be rebuilt. And the plan is that they would be given $5,000 a piece to relocate. They'd have to relocate for 10 years. They couldn't come back and that during that time the Gaza Strip would be transformed into the Riviera of the Middle East. So at least the coastal part, they're imagining hotels and recreation and they're imagining that there would be businesses around the perimeter, I guess, and they'd build it all up and the people would be asked to leave for the $5,000 cash would also get four years of free rent somewhere else and a year's supply of food, again, somewhere else.

Now, the part that's unspecified is who's going to pay for all of this. The idea is that somehow the United States would be some kind of owning or governing the area, but maybe not officially. But then when it was all built up and ready to go, there would be presumably some temporary entity of Arab leaders getting behind it. So I don't know who would pay for all this, but we'll see.

I would have to say if the United States is paying for it, I'm opposed to it. And I would also say that if the way it's received is that it makes the United States more actively involved in depopulating Gaza, I'm not sure we want that on our permanent record because that would make you more of a target for terrorism, wouldn't it? Whereas if we say, "Hey, you know, we just want everybody to be alive. Israel's doing what Israel does. We're not trying to stop it, but we recognize their right to do what they need to do." So I would be concerned that although this is an impressive offer, it's probably good from the perspective of showing that there's some path potentially that the people won't lose hope, although that might feel like losing hope. I don't know. So it's probably good. I would say it's a good idea that there's something out there that people can talk about because it shows that there's some thought about keeping people safe, but they're not going to like it. They're not going to like anything that comes out of this war, of course. So I don't know if it'll solve anything. Could make things worse for the United States, and I would not be in favor of making anything worse for the United States.

And the thinking is that whoever invests in this project we get a four-fold return over 10 years. I don't think anybody can really predict that kind of thing. But at least it makes sense that they can present it as a money-making oppo

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rtunity for the people who put money into it. It might be, but it also would suggest that the prior owners, the Palestinian well the Gaza residents presumably they would be losing everything to these investors or almost everything. I saw an article by Red State saying that the Democrats are losing credibility because they cried wolf too often. In other words, they deny the obvious too often, like…

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