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ake sense for Trump to be trying to work on some kind of a side deal with Saudi Arabia? And then if we get one we like, he just shoves it down Israel's throat. As in, you better take this. No, I know you don't want a two-state solution, but take this. So we'll see. It doesn't seem likely, does it? It seems like Israel, of course, can control its own fate in this particular way. So I don't think we…

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second time. We'll see.

Anyway, China is allegedly, according to Natural News, Kevin Hughes is writing about this, China has some kind of a technical breakthrough in a space-based particle beam weapon that they could just park up in the atmosphere, not outside the atmosphere, and blast away at everything. Now, I already told you that space might be the cheap way to get unlimited energy. Well, suppose you needed unlimited energy because you developed a network of particle beam weapons that require enormous amounts of electricity. Well, here again, you're in luck because if you can only get that enormous amount of electricity from space and enormous solar panels, is China going to be able to park literally a bunch of particle beam weapons that are just sort of pointed at us and they could go from space to the ground in I don't know how long would it take, five seconds, you know, even at the speed of light or faster, right? Faster than five seconds. I'm not quite sure. But how in the world would you defend against that? I mean, you would have to attack it preemptively. And if you missed even one node, it could just sit up there all day long creating infinite energy and just destroying everything in your entire nation, right? If you tried to send a rocket up to knock it down, the particle beam would knock the rocket down first. I don't know. We're in all new territory here.

But I also don't believe stories about any country with an advanced particle beam weapon. I feel like if we know about it, it can't be true. Wouldn't you say? It can't be their best secret weapon if we know about it. So you have to basically take whatever it is you think you know and then make some assumptions about how good the real stuff is and it's going to be real good.

All right. Did you know that most Americans believe that migrant farm workers should be allowed to remain in the USA? That's according to physicians committee for responsible medicine. You disagree. I know. But 65% of adults support establishing some kind of program where the people who pick our food can be happy and we'll be happy too. I don't know what that looks like.

Who was doing a great job the other day explaining why you can't. Oh, I think it was Trump explaining why you can't just hire Americans for things because you want Americans to do it. How many of you think that's a real thing? Now, Trump says it's not. It's just not a thing. That if you wanted to, let's say, import some high-tech industry that we don't already have skill at, it's not a thing that we could just train our own people. You just build the factory and by the time it's built, oh, we trained everybody, so now we can do this high-tech thing. We'll make our own chips. That's not a thing. It takes a lot of work to prepare a country or anybody to take on a whole new industry. So I think Trump is the one who has the closest view to reality about the H-1B stuff, which is there is no world in which you can just hire Americans on day one. Now, if your ambition is to make sure that in five years or however long it takes that it's 100% American, that might be doable. Three years depends on the industry. But yeah, totally doable in the long run. But to imagine that you could just jump into it, that's just not a feature of the real world. And Trump seems to understand the real world well enough to know that he has to make some concessions. So I got to say it seems he's completely right.

There's a report that the US and Russia are planning some kind of Ukrainian peace deal that does not involve the Europeans negotiating. What does that sound like? That sounds just like the last story, doesn't it? Where the question is, wait a minute, did Trump find a way to negotiate peace deals by just leaving out the part that they don't like? So the part they don't like is Europe might not agree with something, so he just leaves them out. Is he going to make a peace deal in which the Europeans say, "Oh, no. We don't agree to that." And t

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hey just force them into it. Would that be the third peace deal that Trump did where he just pretended that people were on the same page when they weren't? Because this goes back to what I was saying. Did he invent a whole new way to make deals? It's kind of weird. All right. I am in so much pain that I think I'm gonna have to end early. Oh my god. I have to. It's a muscle pain. So don't worry to…

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