because we don't have any transparency and the people in charge over time you get people in charge who are willing to steal it because it's stealable and they just notice and so they do.

On the same point, Remix is writing that almost every German city is now on the verge of bankruptcy. Almost every German city. Do you think that Germans don't know how to do a spreadsheet? How in the world could all the Germans miss the budget? All the Germans. Have you heard of Germany? Have you heard of Germans? You know by pure chance a few Germans would hit the budget. Do you think that Germans want to have a balanced budget? Yeah. Yeah, they do. I'll bet the Germans want to have a balanced budget more than just about anybody except maybe Japan, you know, and I'm talking culturally. Do you think Germans want to be overspending their budget? I don't think so. And yet every single one almost everyone did in fact do it. How do you explain that except corruption and fraud? I don't have a way to do it. I think it's literally just corruption and fraud. That's what I think.

Anyway, there's some whispers. The Daily Express US is writing about this that the US is preparing or getting closer to every moment some kind of a military operation in Venezuela. I don't know if it'll be a quote all-out invasion or maybe a head fake, we don't know. But we're definitely moving, continuing to move resources there. What do you think we should do? Do you think that we're simply putting pressure on the powers that be? And it's just one of a variety of ways we're negotiating by essentially suggesting that if they don't give us what we want, there'll be a military invasion. We don't really have to say it. We just have to prepare for it. And then you don't have to say it.

But do you notice that there's something missing in this whole Venezuela story? What is the dog not barking? What's the thing that's missing? The thing you would always have, but at the moment it's missing. I would say the thing that's missing is who are we negotiating with and what are we asking for? Do any of you know? Because I'm a little worried. It appears my country is getting ready to attack a sovereign country and I don't even know who they're talking to. I don't know what they've asked for. What would it take for them not to do it? Is there a specific ask? Because it doesn't look like it to me.

How do you get this far? And if I were to stop you on the street and say, "Are you American?" Yes. Are you familiar with the Venezuela situation? Yes. Who are we talking to? Because I don't think it's Maduro. I don't think we're talking to the head guy. Who are we talking to? And what are we asking for? And what are they saying about giving it to us? You know, part of the reason I wonder is I wonder if they've already offered to give us what we've asked for. Do you ever wonder about that? Because didn't we hear early on, I didn't believe it. So maybe it's the believing it part that's missing. But doesn't it seem like we made some threats and then Venezuela said some version of okay let's talk. Didn't that happen? I don't believe there's been a phase where they said let's talk and then we talked and then we asked for some stuff and then they said oh no we can never give you that. Did that ever happen?

So I feel like we're on some kind of weird autopilot where we know what it looks like when the fake news starts moving the country toward war. Doesn't i