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Back to episode — Episode 3003 CWSA 10/29/25

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t's probably partly why the stock market's up. He thinks that there's going to be a deal to reduce US tariffs on imports from China in exchange for here's the part I don't believe. China trying harder to block the fentanyl precursors. As you know, China produces the precursors that go to Mexico and then the cartels turn that into fentanyl and then they kill tens of thousands of Americans every ye…

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trying. It looks like they took something off the shelf. What do we got? We can't figure out any good gifts. And he just got this banger of a gift from Japan. We can't top that. What do we got? Well, we've got this thing we sort of make up. We call it the Grand Order of the Mugunghwa. Why don't we give him one of those and we'll put it on a plaque so he doesn't have to put it around his neck. And that's what they did. Anyway, I don't mean to make fun of South Korea. They're an awesome ally, but you got to catch up to Japan's gift giving.

As you know, there will be some things that I say about the Middle East that will make you think, "Wait a minute, is this a repeat?" No, it's because the Middle East is a repeat. The most predictable thing about the Middle East was that Hamas would be accused of breaking the ceasefire. What else is predictable? Israel would be accused of killing people they shouldn't be killing. You know that's going to happen. So sure enough Hamas says they were not behind it but there was some Hamas people who did some attacking some IDF people. Netanyahu decided to respond aggressively which is his right and he responded militarily. Now, I guess Israel is saying that they did their hit back and now they're good to go and the ceasefire is back on. But even as I'm scrolling through the news, you have to check the exact time on every story because you can't tell if okay, is this the end of the last broken ceasefire? Are they ceasefired again? No, wait. No, there's another break in the ceasefire. But wait, it looks like they're back on the ceasefire. So it'll just be broken ceasefire after broken ceasefire forever. But as I've said before, as long as the total amount of violence stays low because most of the armed people and most of the arms have been drained out of the area, it's still manageable. It's still manageable, but I don't think

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the ceasefire breaking is going to stop anytime soon. Might get a good result. We'll see. And let's talk about Trump's third term. So apparently the news today is that Trump has admitted that it's not an option. He said, quote, "It's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. It's too bad." Now, so he's just noting that the Constitution says there's no way he could have a third term. Now, we had all gr…

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