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an. He said, "Joe, why won't you have me on the show?" He was on another podcast when he said this. He said, "He won't have me on the show. It's a one way and he has guests coming on attacking and bashing, but he won't have me on the show. Full stop. He should have me on the show." And basically challenged him to do it. Now, does it seem to you that cursing and insulting Joe Rogan is how you get…

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who just have an affinity for it. No, no, but it's not like they have a leadership. Well, how are they collecting money if they don't have a leadership? Well, okay. Well, they have some ways for money to get around, but not in a leadership way. Well, how do they decide who gets what money? Well, so but one of the people is Jimmy Kimmel. So he was mocking Christine Noem, I guess, and referring to Antifa as quote an entirely imaginary organization. And then some other people, there were some other talking heads that people had captured saying the same thing. Oh, it's imaginary. It's imaginary. And but they were the ones who were saying it's imaginary were saying it's not like the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front. Because they said those are real organizations, not like Antifa. That's just totally imaginary.

So I went to Grok and I said, "How many people are in the Proud Boys?" And the estimate was from 300 to 3,000. I guess at one point might have been a few thousand more than that, but it's losing a little bit of its esteem. But what if the Proud Boys is really only 300 people? And then I asked it about the Patriot Front because that was also mentioned and it said there were 200 to 300 people. This is in the entire nation. Don't you think that every single Antifa event had more than 300 people and more than a thousand? Probably. There's so many more Antifa people than there are Proud Boys or Patriot Front. So many more now, but there's no estimate. Grok doesn't have an estimate for Antifa. But don't you think if you did some kind of a survey, just asked people if they're Antifa, you guess something like 1%, which would be a lot of people. Definitely more than the Proud Boys and the Patriot Front.

So now we're hearing a little bit more about how this deal with Gaza got done. We're hearing that Jared Kushner might have been far more important to the process than has been reported so far. So that's one thing that it looks like. And it looks like Qatar—or Qatar as you like to say—is maybe one of the big stories behind the curtain. So Qatar wanted some things, but we wanted some things from Qatar, which is to back a peace deal. And what Qatar wanted was I guess they got some dedicated space where they can test their jets that we're selling them, the ones we're selling them. They can test them and train in the United States within the bounds of some American base. They'll have their own little space, but it'll be controlled by America. So they don't have their own base. They would just have some space for training that they would pay for that would be on an American base because apparently their country is so small they don't really have a good place to test jets. So they'll test them here, they'll buy them here, they'll put billions of dollars into buying more of them here. So it turns out it was a good deal for us because we sell some more jets and we'll have a place that they can test them so they feel comfortable getting them. And apparently Qatar wanted to get in better with the United States and not be seen as half a terrorist supporter and half a supporter of the West. You know, they want to be more on the clean side of things. So it's sort of a way for them to reposition themselves with the United States entirely by doing something for us that presumably will get them some favors in return. So Qatar seems to be a big part of the backstory. And the fact that we were able to cut a deal with Qatar probably has a lot to do with how we go

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t to this point. And like I said, if Hillary Clinton is saying yes, it must be that there's so much money that's going to be funneled into that area for rebuilding and the Abraham Accords and everything else that probably all the big money people just said cha-ching. You know, I'm just guessing like did all the bankers just say, "All right, we can make some money on this." Did all the construction…

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