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ly be wrong about that? So I don't believe the poll because there's no way 10% of Republicans think he's doing a good job. There's no way. It couldn't possibly be true. Anyway, if you break it down by age, you can find our stupidest citizens. Who are the dumbest citizens? Who are the dumbest voters? By age, by age, by age. Who are the dumbest voters? The young ones, right? Young voters are the du…
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So now I'm seeing some photos from before the bombing started. They had high-end luxury stores in Gaza City. Now Gaza City would not be like the rest of Gaza, but I didn't know there was any of that there. Apparently there was an upper-class Gaza society where people went to reasonable educations and drove nice cars. And even more surprising is that pictures of the public areas in Gaza City were well-maintained, very well-designed, modern. It looks like a modern city, or at least looks it in some places. There must be bad places, but I didn't know that it was actually that functional given what I'd heard about it. Kind of surprising.
Now let's talk about, you may remember or some of you may remember that when we were looking at the beginning of this war and the beginning of the invasion of the IDF into Gaza, we all asked the same thing: what are they going to do about those tunnels? They're too deep to bomb them easily and they're too extensive. And if you go down there, it's a death trap. And if you try to invade, they could pop up from the tunnels from anywhere. So it'd be a dangerous thing. So what do you do about the tunnels? Well, I told you, and it turns out I was right about this, that in all likelihood, since Israel has had to worry about tunnels for 20 years, that they would have the best tunnel-breaching people in the world. Turns out they do. They've got specialists who are tunnel-breaching experts. So exactly that. They've got teams of tunnel-breachers, probably the best in the world because they have the biggest problem with it.
But the two technologies that we've learned about, and I believe we're going to find out maybe a lot more later about tunnel-clearing technologies, but two of them, they're sort of medium-tech. One I talked about, that's a kind of a bomb, a sponge bomb. You throw it down the tunnel and it explodes and it just fills the tunnel like it blocks it and it hardens kind of immediately. So if you were in the tunnel and you thought bad guys were coming down the side tunnel to get you, you could block them off with one bomb. So I think mostly they would use that just to temporarily block somebody because they could probably shoot through it if they had to or something.
But the other technology I just learned about was apparently they're pumping purple smoke down the tunnels when they find an entrance, and then they wait to see where the purple smoke comes up somewhere else. And if it comes up somewhere else, you've got either an opening or at least a source of oxygen, and you don't want them to have either one. So you bomb it. So you just put smoke down there and bomb it.
Now do you think they're putting any other kind of smoke down there? Do you think there's any other kind of smoke they might be pumping down these things? Or do you think the purple smoke has nothing else in it? Why would they pump smoke down the tunnels unless they add a little bit of toxic something in it? They might want to avoid a war crime, so poison gas would be off the table presumably. But shouldn't they also make the purple smoke very, very difficult to breathe so that they want to just run out of there as soon as they can? So that's what we know of. But I'll tell you one thing. The idea that we want them to come out of the tunnel so we can fight them is so wrong. I can't imagine anything more terrifying than being in a tunnel right now when they're turning off the oxygen one by one. And if you come up, they'll shoot you. Literally it's basically they're buried alive, wouldn't you say? What would be the difference between being buried alive in a coffin and b
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eing in a tunnel right now? It would be the same except you could walk a little bit. Right? At some point if they've got enough food, their tunnels will literally be full of — am I wrong? Because I don't think there's somebody whose job it is to take the waste outside and dump it when the bullets are flying. So they probably got a tunnel full of the worst smelling thing you've ever smelled with th…
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