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about the thing that you do. It's about the marketing of yourself. And that's your reframe. Your reframe is doing what you're told gets you a paycheck. Doing more than you're told might get you more than a paycheck. Well, we learned a little bit more about the TikTok ban that's never going to be a ban. That seemed like it was going to happen for a while, and now it seems like there's no way it's…

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chief. They just say this is dangerous to the country. I ban it, and then fight it out in court. But you ban it first. You don't fight it out first. It's a military asset. You ban it first and then you see if you followed the law.

So now the country is not being run for the benefit of the country. Whatever is happening here, it's for the benefit of China. There is no feasible, conceivable argument that this is good for the United States. And by the way, that's a bipartisan opinion, right? So you know it's about people being bought off essentially.

Well, Mike Lindell says he will keep fighting in his lawsuit. He's being sued by the Dominion and Smartmatic people. Apparently he has at least the option, I guess you always have the option, of trying to do a settlement. That would be super, super devastating and expensive. Or he could fight it out and bankrupt his company, which is likely. He decided he's going to fight it out and bankrupt his company.

Now I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea. He's the only one who can judge that. But I wouldn't want to get in too much of a fight with Mike Lindell because this guy doesn't quit. He just doesn't quit. Yeah, I weirdly respect it even if it's the wrong decision. I kind of like his fight. I don't know if he's right. I have no idea if he's right or wrong, but I do like his fight. He clearly believes he's right and he's going to bet it all. He's actually just going to bet it all.

Now I'm sure he saved up a few bucks so he's not going to go to the poor house, but that's a pretty big sacrifice to sacrifice your company. And it looks like he's willing to do it. But here's a question that I have. I've never seen anybody a

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ddress this. How can Dominion and Smartmatic sue Mike Lindell for being wrong about his claims about the election unless they make their code public? How? How does this work? How in the world can they sue him with his claim? Would presumably, I would assume, that his claims would include some allegations about what happens with the code, you know, the actual programming code. Isn't that part of i…

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