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nes where it had been banned before? I didn't think so. I mean technically anything's possible but I didn't think it was going to happen and he just signed a piece of paper and it happened and that was like the law of the land essentially. And so that's the frame. Not so good on little unimportant stuff where you have to say things just the right way. But when it comes to things that are literall…

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ectly. Played it perfectly. He just has Kim Jong-un's back and that will be good for the country.

All right. The thing that I wish Trump had said about the forest fires is that we need nuclear energy. But I think that's just sort of, people can't quite understand the topic yet. Probably 80 percent of the country still thinks you can't deal with the nuclear waste. You can. It's not that big a deal. A lot of the country thinks it's dangerous. It's not. They just are not up to date. And I think the president maybe just doesn't want that fight again. I'm not a mind reader. I would be only speculating. But it would be the obvious thing to say and it would be provocative so you would expect him to go there but not.

Here's something that somebody noticed. When Gavin Newsom was blaming climate change for the fires, if you see the map the fires go from the bottom of California to the top of the country and then the fires, of which there are I don't know dozens or hundreds, and like the whole state of California looks like it's on fire in different places. And you go right up to the border of Canada and there's no fires. So after the Canadian border, no fires. Now is the climate that different a mile on the other side of the border versus a mile on our side? I don't think so. I don't think it's that different. So you have to ask yourself is it management of the forest or not?

Now the thing that I would like to see is that our forests that have the biggest risk, we should be cutting these 50-yard paths, crisscrossing them so that there will be a natural fire break should something start. But I would also like to see those 50-yard fire breaks through the forest turned into, what am I going to say, why should all those fire breaks that we need to build across all these forests, what should they be in addition to fire breaks? That's right, they should be bicycle paths. You should be able to go anywhere in California on a bicycle without reaching traffic. It should just be bicycle paths that are also coincidentally good for the forest. Could you charge people a toll to use the bicycle paths and use that money to help pay for the forest fire remediation? I would say yes. If I could ride a hundred miles on a bicycle path through cool woods and stuff, you know as long as I had a paved path, yeah I'd pay for that. Absolutely I'd pay for that. A little bit of a toll.

Here's an update. CNN after reporting for months and months and months-ish, CNN's been reporting that every expert will tell you that mail-

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in votes are fine. They're fine. There's no problem with mail-in votes. The president's a big old liar. There's no problem. Mail-in votes, they've worked in other countries, they've worked in other states, they've been working for years, nobody's finding a problem. Therefore the president is completely wrong about the risk of mail-in votes. Well until yesterday when CNN, here's the important part,…

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