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we're going to let it go." And maybe they would just turn the other way in terms of the federal charges. Anyway, so I think Sean Duffy could improve that argument a little bit. Did you know that if Jabba the Hut had an evil twin, that twin would probably be considered a frontrunner to be the next governor of California? And the only reason I say that is because the only thing we could do that's…

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e Trump is not part of the conversation. He's the only one who's not part of the conversation. Look at all the other politicians. How many of them could have pulled this off? None. None. There's not another politician that could have done what he did. He was playful. He showed that he understood the TikTok kind of vibe that if you're completely serious, you're doing it wrong. Right? If you're completely serious, you're doing it wrong. But how well can an elected politician deliver some social media quality? I'll say witticisms, not outright jokes, but just witticisms. Who can do that? And the answer is nobody. Nobody. JD Vance can do it. If you don't realize how thin that target was, he just hit a target that was the size of the arrow and he did it effortlessly. So he has just the right sensibility of when to mock something, when to mock himself gently, you know, without going too far in the self-deprecation. I don't like the self-deprecation. But if you're wondering who has the right stuff to be the next president, boy, would you miss this if he didn't have it. Do you know how much you would miss having a president who could deliver a, you know I won't say a laugh line but at least "oh that's pretty funny." You know you hit that target. Very rare. He can do it.

All right I didn't love his suit the suit he was wearing I thought was a mistake so I'll give one negative. If you're going to do a full body image do a little more work on the suit. He wears good suits just, you kno

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w, not that day. I think he had a, yeah, I won't say more than that. The Trump administration is rumored per Forbes that they're thinking about maybe selling a portion of their gigantic student loan debt to a private market. Why would they do that? Now what that means is people owe the government I don't know $1.6 trillion for student loan debt. The way anybody who owns the debt, in other words t…

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