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ve ever heard me say this before. All data is fake. All of it. I saw a Laura Loomer post today. That's pretty scary. It says al-Qaeda's taking root in the United States and planning a multi-city attack. Have they done that before? I don't remember the multi-city part, but that would be extra bad if it were multi-city. And my question is, would that include drones? Do you think al-Qaeda is going t…

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for continuing that because I'm sure a lot of money gets sent back home etc. and that maybe what this is is just more pressure on India because ultimately we want them to stop providing or buying oil from Russia. So it could be that what Trump is really doing is saying if you're going to buy Russian oil, which is bad for the world, bad for us, bad for Ukraine, bad for Europe, if you're going to do that, we're not going to buy your employees unless they're so valuable that you know it's good for us. So maybe I don't know maybe that's part of it. But it might be that it's helpful for negotiating but it might be that we just want America first. So it could be more than one thing.

Trump's already also introducing his gold card visa. So for a million dollars you can get a visa. A million dollars. And if a corporation wants to sponsor the individual, it's $2 million. Wow. It costs you $15,000 just to do the paperw

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ork. So if you want to buy yourself a visa, you can do it, but it's going to cost you. I like the United States having a two drink minimum and a cover charge. I kind of like that. You can't even get in this country without paying. Have you noticed that I have not been exuberant about Argentina's president Milei? Yeah, even though he was doing impressive things with cutting expenses and getting th…

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