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got good at grabbing their photos, it turns out we're now good at identifying cartel members. So when it says that the number of suspected terrorists is up 30-fold, it means we got really really good at spotting cartel members crossing the border. Trying to do it legally, but obviously we're spotting them. So what looks like bad news is actually extraordinary. Extraordinary that they had a 30-fold…

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other countries because we were racist or something. And now I'm wondering how many other engineering miracles that China has built are just going to fall over. You know all those ghost cities they built that they ended up blowing up. Did it ever make sense to you that they would just blow them up? Unless they were built so poorly that they knew they couldn't put people in them and that they would be dangerous. Could it be that some percentage of their engineering miracles are just pure shit and that they didn't do a good job, they just made it look good and then sold it as a miracle? I don't know. Yeah. Makes me wonder how much is real.

Anyway, the US is going after some more of those drug boats. RSBN is reporting two more taken out on Sunday and we report that these vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics. Well, how could we know that without the British intelligence? Without the British intelligence, these could have been tourists. How would we know? I'm just joking.

Have you noticed that there are a lot of things governments do that they can blame on our intelligence people and you and I can't check? So are you sure that those were narco boats? "Oh yeah. Yeah. Our intelligence people confirmed it." Which intelligence people? "Oh, we can't give that up." How'd they confirm it? "Sources and methods. Sorry, I'm not going to tell you that." How sure are they? "Oh, they're really sure. Very sure." You can just blame anything on the intel group and nobody has any way to check. Absolutely. These are narco boats if I ever saw any.

Apparently there's some big anti-corruption watchdog thing happening in Ukraine where there's some allegations that Ukraine is filled with corruption. Huh. And that they believe that the corruption is not just the government itself taking its taste, whic

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h of course is probably happening, but rather it seems to be criminal enterprises. So there seems to be criminal organizations that are taking 10% of everything that's happening over there. So starting to think I can't trust those Ukrainians. That's my joke of the day. All right, everybody. Thanks for joining me. That takes me to the end of my valuable comments. I'm going to talk for a moment to…

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