I mean it's a tax collection process too. But the Constitution doesn't say anything about collecting taxes, but we do it. So yeah, I'm just concerned that it's the wrong branch of government handling the most important thing. It's just the wrong branch of government.

Anyway, three Chinese nationals from the University of Michigan have been arrested, it looks like, and charged for smuggling what they call biological materials into the US. Oh no. Turns out it was their lunch. Just their lunch. Joking. I'm joking. It wasn't their lunch. It was biological materials. What kind of biological materials? I don't know. I don't like the sound of it. Hey, Bob. What's that in that bag? Uh, nothing. No, seriously. What's in the bag, Bob? Wait, what? Speak up. Biological materials. Say it. Can you say it a little more clearly? It's biological materials. Ah, and then I would start running out the door holding a mask, double masking. That would be the first time I ever double masked if I heard that. I got a big bag of biological materials. Would you like a handful?

Well, here's something I found out today. Apparently Russia has a persuasion expert. Yeah, Russia has a persuasion expert. Turns out that that Lavrov guy that we always see, you know, he's he seems to be their head diplomat guy, Lavrov, he's sort of a hard ass. And by being a hard ass, he's sort of guaranteed that nothing got done, you know, that there was no peace, no nothing because he just asked for too much. He asked for things he'd never get, like the dismantling of the Ukrainian army. Who's going to say yes to that? So Lavrov was worthless if the goal was to end the war. We don't know if that was Russia's goal. Maybe they just wanted him to be the guy who extended the war, in which case he did a good job. But now there's this new guy, Kirill Dmitriev. He's a special envoy for now, but he's high up in the influence part of the government. So Putin must like him because he's sort of putting him in charge of figuring out what to do with Ukraine in terms of not ending the war because I just don't know if Putin is even wanting to end the war. But this guy is taking the lead. But here's what this guy's doing. He's definitely not trying to end the war. But he's one of the people claiming that Russia and Putin in particular are going to uphold traditional conservative values. I think he just calls them traditional values. So he's trying to confuse the US into thinking or at least this is one take from Mark Toth and Jonathan. It's an opinion in The Hill. So let me give all credit to them for the story. Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet. So the idea here is that this guy is just going to mess with us and he's going to act like oh those conservatives, you know, we agree with the conservatives basically. We like their conservative values. So Russia and the Republicans, you know, we should be getting along. And that would rea