taking so long. You know, we've all automatically assumed that everybody involved is very capable. And if they're very capable and they don't give you the files, then you assume that they have a reason for not giving you the files. But it's entirely possible again using the Dilbert filter that at least part of the reason for the delay is that they don't know how to handle that many files and they don't know how to solve that problem. Maybe not impossible.

All right. Did you know that the US exports of LNG that's liquid natural gas to Europe are way up? But the Russian natural gas that arrives by pipeline to Europe is down. But the surprising part of the story is wait what? Are you telling me that Europe is still buying natural gas from Russia at the same time they're funding a war against Russia? How in the world is it possible that they're still buying Russian gas at the same time they're funding a war against Russia?

Well, part of the answer is that they're based on long-term contracts. Okay, but is that good enough? And some of those long-term contracts are running out at the end of this year. So allegedly the amount of gas that Europe gets from Russia will go way down and the liquid natural gas from the US will continue to increase. So it does look like Trump is winning because we're selling more energy to Europe. We're not funding the war at the moment and Europe is going to have to wean itself off of Russian gas real soon. And where are they going to get their alternative? They're going to have to get it from us.

So could it be that Russia might get more flexible when their source of money, which is the gas, gets cut in half fairly abruptly. So it might be that just waiting for the changes in energy markets is why we have to wait to get any kind of a deal there. But as you know, Trump has been seizing some oil tankers. Now oil is different from liquid natural gas, but he's been seizing some of those Venezuelan bound tankers. I guess we got three of them. Maybe we'll get some more. And he says he's going to keep the oil that we seize, but he's also going to keep the ships.

And I asked Grok, could you convert the ships that he's seizing into liquid natural gas ships because that's the way it's shipped. It's shipped on a special ship. Now Grok said, and it disappointed me, that it would be too hard to do that because the ships that are made for transporting liquid natural gas have different hulls. So there wouldn't be anything left of the ship if you tried to retrofit it. You'd have to take everything out. You'd have to redo the hull and add all kinds of special equipment. So economically, it would never make sense to convert them to liquid natural gas. But that would have been funny. It would have been funny if we could just use them for liquid natural gas, but we can't.

Two quick stories and I'll be done. So I saw a post by C3 that Elon Musk was agreeing with. He says the following. You are taxed and then after you're taxed, the government sends $300 billion of your tax money to fund college faculties. I didn't know that. $300 billion of my tax money goes to fund college faculties. College faculties are 90% Democrats. So 90% of political donations from faculties go to Democrat politicians and essentially Americans are forced to pay Democrats. So without your approval bunch of money goes to Democrat faculties and then they in turn donate a bunch of money to politics but only to Democrat candidates. So in effect, we're being forced to fund Democrats and Elon agreed to that. Well, that seems sub-optimal.

And then lastly, Breitbart News is reporting that Japan is trying to tighten up their rules for becoming a resident of Japan. So it used to be you had to live there for five years, but they're going to change it to 10. And you have to be proficient in Japanese, the language, or you cannot become a citizen. You know, I think Japan has a pretty good chance of survival, because they're more badass about immigration. But any country that's not totally badass about immigration, as in limiting it, is probably doomed for all the obvious reasons.

All right, people. That's all I got for today. I'm going to sign off, get some breakfast. I'm going to take a final sip of water and tell me, did you like the show today? And if you did, what part did you like? Did I do anything right today? I'll just stay on for another minute to look at your comments.

All right, that looks like you enjoyed yourselves. That's all I ask. All right, thanks people. I will see you tomorrow.