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't do anything about it, I've often wondered if the best solution isn't for people to apply for, let's call it a grant or a scholarship to move out of whatever bad place has a bad example that's being set for them. Not just in this regard, but someplace safe where they can really concentrate on school or whatever. Don't you think that that would be one way to save a failing neighborhood? Literally…

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d up. Of course that represents me. But if the people in Chicago don't want the help, should we really force it upon them? I mean, they do have the ability to vote in people who would change that and they apparently are not choosing that path. At what point does it just become their problem?

So I don't know how much of my tax dollars I want to spend sending the military or any form of the military into Chicago. It's not that it wouldn't work. I think it would work and I think politically it would probably be a total winner. But I don't know if it's because of my empathy. Don't ask me to have more empathy than they have for themselves. That doesn't make sense. I should have maybe equal to but not more empathy than they have for themselves.

Anyway, I guess Trump and the team won another court victory. So now a judge is going to allow the ICE to sweep up immigrants in raids. And partially they can use the race of the people as part of their decision-making, but it can't be all of it. So if the only reason they stopped somebody to find out their status was because they look like they were Hispanic, that would not be allowed. That would be pure racism. But the court has allowed, the Supreme Court has now allowed that it would be one of the elements you might look at. So for example, if they were Hispanic and standing at the Home Depot, I'm making that up, and speaking only Spanish, I don't know, there might be some other elements, but you could use it as one variable, but not the variable. I don't know how I feel about that.

Moving on, apparently Nepal is having some issues. The parliament building is on fire and the public had revolted. Except there's something a little bit weird about this Nepal situation as in why it happened. So I guess it started because the country was trying to ban some fake social media accounts. But the issue of banning some fake social media accounts turned into the public being mad about corruption and digital censorship. That turned into riots in the street and then it looks like maybe the country has fallen I can't tell but here's the thing. When you hear that Nepal has done this street protest against the government and burned down a building and dragged down some of the politicians, I don't know what happened to them but some of them got dragged out, do you assume that that happens spontaneously or do you believe that there's just no such thing anywhere of this kind of organized thing unless there's some external source, maybe a color revolution kind of a situation, some foreign country, maybe some intelligence people within the country, who knows, but I'm way beyond imagining that this kind of stuff happens on its own. So I would have some questions about who might have been involved behind the scenes, if you know what I mean.

According to a post I saw on X by Wall Street Apes, there's some independent investigation about Gavin Newsom's association to some NGOs which allegedly all these Democrat conspiracies and alleged corruption things were also complicated where he allegedly was doing something called behested payments. So this would be legal. So allegedly somebody like Newsom could go to a bunch of rich donors and say, "Hey, I behest you to put a bunch of money into these NGOs. It's a charity. It's really good." And then the rich people go, "Oh, got it." Wink wink. So if I put

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a bunch of money into the charities, then you'll be good to me when I need a favor. Well, I can't say that, but if you put a bunch of money into these charities, they sure would be good for those charities. And then you work it out with the charities or you've chosen them because they're working with you where they say, "If you can get us a bunch of money from a bunch of rich people in return for…

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