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tually one force, one country or one entity will win and only their drones will be in the sky. At that point the war is over because the humans underneath have no chance against the drones. They have no chance. Drones could just hang up there all day long. If you go outdoors, they kill you unless you do what the country with the drones tells you to do. So I think we're going to see entire wars fo…
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So if you're a public company and you care about what your customers and your stockholders are saying, you're going to be looking at this situation and you say, you know, it's sort of okay now, but it would be actually dumb to plan a move into China. Could we agree that if you were contemplating moving to China before, let's say a few years ago, you were ramping up and saying yeah, we've targeted China, we want to build some facilities, would it be fair to say that you would not proceed with that project if you had to decide today?
So if you were sitting around a meeting table today in a big Fortune 500 company and somebody says to the boss, we need a final decision. Are we going to move our production into China? What's the CEO going to say? Hold, give me some options. No smart CEO would commit a large amount of resources to moving into China under these conditions. And it doesn't look like those conditions are going to change. I don't see China moving against fentanyl. They talked about it but there's no action. I don't see them doing anything really about theft of intellectual property. I don't see them ramping down their military and their military seems primarily aimed at us, right? China's entire military, who else are they fighting with? They don't have anyone else to fight. They're cool with Russia. What do they need a navy for? They don't need a navy to fight Russia, right? The Navy is about us.
So I don't think an American company can move into China. There's the big story. The big story is not how many are moving out. The big story is that nobody's going to move in. That's done in my opinion. Any big company that makes a new decision, one that's they can actually decide either way, no big company can do that now. When was the last time you heard some big company announced they're moving to China? It would be suicide. It would be crazy. It wouldn't matter what the tax situation or the employment situation is. You just wouldn't do it.
So I think that you might see at first a slow trickle of people moving out of China. But every day that the trade negotiations go on and it seems more and more obvious that no deal can be reached because apparently China doesn't do business that way. Apparently China does not do honest business where they make a deal and then they keep it. It just doesn't seem to be part of the set of possible things. And as long as that's the case, I would expect China's economy to crash in the next 20 years. So that's my prediction. China's economy will take quite a beating in the next 20 years.
All right, that is what I wanted to talk about today. I have these little pieces of paper so I look more like a real newsman. Check that off. Check that off. Check that off.
All right, can we laugh a little more? Somebody says I don't know what's funny. Now let's talk about concentration camps. So one of the things that is very amusing about AOC is that she can even tell you what she's doing and you'll still act like it's not happening. So she did it again. She's right in her sweet spot. So she called the, let's call them detention centers for immigrants on the border, she called them concentration camps. What happened when she called them concentration camps? Well suddenly we started seeing photos of these detention centers which I've never seen. Had you ever seen a photo of the detention centers? I hadn't. But as soon as she calls them concentration camps, photos all over, right?
So suddenly we know a lot more about these detention centers. Suddenly the priority of them has gone up. We're talking about AOC. We're talking about the detention centers. We're talking about a topic in which she is relatively strong because she's got sort of a moral argument if not a practical. It's not very practical. And everybody's saying, AOC, how dare you compare this to Hitler? How dare you compare this to the Holocaust? And they're completely correct. As I often say, there are at least two things you should never compare. Don't compare the Holocaust to anything ever. There's no right time to compare anything to the Holocaust. And American slavery. There's nothing like it. Stop saying there's anything like slavery in America. There are other slavery situations but these are unique things and you should never compare anything to them. You just look dumb.
But she did it and she did it. That's funny. So the people who come in here and anyway I'll just block that troll. And so anyway AOC is doing what she's really, really, really good at. Even if you don't like a lot of things about her, she focused all attention on the thing that helps her, helps the Democrats and hurts the president and maybe could someday help the immigrants themselves. Although I'm not sure that that's the top priority for AOC. I'm not reading your mind. I just don't know one way or the other.
So there's still people on here saying AOC is an idiot and she looks pretty dumb. You are so missing the show. If for those of you who don't know, AOC was selected based on American Idol-like contest. She literally auditioned for the job of politician with Democ
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ratic people who knew how to pick people. It's not an accident that she's this good. It's not an accident she was selected out of thousands of people because she can do this. This is special. You don't have to like it but it's special. And she can reproduce it over and over again. And every time she does, people say that's a stupid thing she's saying. How could she be so dumb? And then we go on an…
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