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think mostly right, but when it could give me the page number, I'll bet that was a hallucination. So I don't know. I've not confirmed that his book included my financial advice. I can confirm that a few people asked for permission to reprint that. So whether he did or not, I don't know. Anyway, did you know that I've had an influence on personal finance? How many of you knew that? That's one of t…
← Previous segment →most obviously documented total facts is that the Trump administration has in fact reduced the number of illegal border crossings? Now, how can she possibly say that that didn't happen?
Well, here's what she did. So she didn't want to give credit for what is an immense accomplishment. So instead, she said, "We know that this administration has not been the most honest when it comes to reporting numbers." So instead of saying yes, obviously they stopped border crossings, she questioned whether the data was accurate. Oh my god, I hate it and I love it at the same time. It's so bold that you would even go that direction, but if you assume that the public isn't really following things closely, she says, "Well, you know, they cheated on the jobs numbers." I don't know if that's true, but she said the jobs numbers were fake. So if the job numbers were fake, couldn't it also be true that the border numbers were fake?
No. Because we would definitely notice that the border numbers were fake. If the border was exactly the way it had been, you don't think we would have noticed. It's harder to notice unemployment or employment, you know, especially if you're talking one or two percent. But it's not hard to notice that the border is wide open or totally closed. But the hubris of even saying that it might be a data reporting problem by the administration, that's pretty bold.
So apparently there's a giant tanker, oil tanker that is one of these shadow fleet trying to illegally move oil from Venezuela. And so the Coast Guard started chasing it down and instead of surrendering, which you would expect them to do because they're literally up against a military. So instead of surrendering, they decided to do a U-turn and make a run for it. Now, obviously, they're not going to outrun the Coast Guard. So there's a little bit of a mystery as to why they haven't surrendered because the staff of the vessel, they're not military, you know, they're just underpaid seamen, so to speak. So why would they even take a chance? It's not their oil. I mean, I suppose there's some risk of penalty to them if they give it up, but what do they think? Do they think they're going to outrun the Coast Guard?
So part of the story, Wall Street Journal's reporting on this, is that the US is just waiting to bring some more military assets in so they can do a proper military takeover of the boat if they don't voluntarily surrender. It looks like they're not.
So did you know that there's such a thing as a maritime special response team? So apparently the US military has a group who are specially trained, an elite force for boarding hosti
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le ships. And I guess what they do is they bring in a bunch of helicopters. And the helicopters keep everybody busy. Then the special elite team, they rappel down presumably. I don't think the helicopter lands. I think they probably rappel down. And then they use their superior weaponry to make it to the bridge and then basically take over. And then there's some speculation that they're looking fo…
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