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ught maybe the sentence was too much or something. So there's some noise about maybe he was being mistreated in jail but nobody gets treated well in jail. So I don't know if the thinking here, what I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want the thinking behind this to be he's a Republican so we're going to get him out of jail. I hope that's not the thinking. I do like Trump being protective of his base. So…
← Previous segment →ve rejected it. And he said, quote, using the f-bomb, which Trump is so good at, he says he doesn't want to fuck with the US. Is that perfect?
Remember, I keep telling you that the Democrats, they try to copy Trump and they do it by trying to swear like they think he swears because it seems to work when he does it. They don't do it right. They just throw the f-bombs in podcasts. Whereas when he throws one in, it's the perfect application. Imagine you're Maduro or you're the Venezuelan leadership and you're watching the news and Trump turns right at the camera, looks at the camera and says he doesn't want to fuck with us. That's not just a good use of a swear term. That's a whole different level. That is making sure that you know that he means that. And if there's one thing you're going to pay attention to, it's that. Everybody. There's lots of things going on today, but here's what you're going to pay attention to. You're going to pay attention to my f-bomb. They don't want to fuck with us. And that is such a clean, clear, strong message. Perfect use of a curse word. Perfect use of a curse word. Then you watch somebody like Newsom just sort of randomly throwing in a blue word. Doesn't work at all. Doesn't work at all. But if you do it this well, that's how to do it.
So we'll see. Maybe something will happen with Venezuela.
ABC News has an estimate for building Gaza, rebuilding Gaza, $70 billion. I saw somebody else say 60 billion, but yeah, once you get into that range, you're just guessing. $70 billion. Where's that going to come from? Apparently over 80% of Gaza's city buildings have damage and 40% are completely wiped out. Only 40%. You know, when I see pictures of Gaza, I don't see anything that looks like it's salvageable. Are there entire parts of Gaza that weren't damaged that much, but we only see the pictures of the ones that are totally flattened? I don't know. I'm doubting that 40% number. It seems like it's more like 80%. But 70 billion, I don't know how anybody's going to get $70 billion to invest in a place that's still going to be festering with terrorists. 70 billion.
Over in Great Britain, there's apparently a breakthrough in fusion energy. If you follow my podcast, you know that I always talk about the many breakthroughs in fusion, but we've been having breakthroughs in fusion for my entire life, and we don't have any fusion yet. So don't get too excited. But apparently over at Oxfordshire, they've made some kind of major breakthrough, technical breakthrough. They've figured out how to stabilize the turbulent edge of a fusion plasma. Wow. They can stabilize the turbulent edge of a fusion plasma, which actually is a gigantic deal. If they could really do that, apparently that's gigantic. Gets you a lot closer to fusion. The US has also published a roadmap to get us to fusion. So the energy department appears to be doing a good job both in priorities and communicating.
I always talk about what's happening with living situations and especially senior citizens. And here's a trend which I was expecting to see. And apparently there's some studies that show this is true. The older people are far more likely to take on a roommate now. So if there are seniors who own a house and they don't want to leave their house but it becomes too expensive to run the house by yourself. Apparently it's a very big trend now. Close to a million adults are living with unrelated housemates, older adults. You know, it's not surprising if it's 20-somethings have roommates, but when the 70-somethings start getting roommates of other 70-somethings, then you've got something going on here. So the number of people who are cohabitating with non-relatives is up quite a bit since 2021.
So I was telling you before that China seems to have adapted to the one child thing better than we expected. So the one child would just stay home and would just be an asset to the parents in a way that maybe if they had several kids, the kids would have le
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ft and gotten jobs and whatever. So it is useful to watch how society can adjust when it just has to. And this living, the cost of living is so high that the seniors just have to adjust. They just won't be able to afford the old kind of lifestyle where you could just live in a big house, I guess. So yeah, you're going to see a lot of people cohabitating. I think they'll be happier. I think they'll…
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