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modern economy way. So there can't be too many rich people there or anything like that. 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 nic…

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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 the most foul air you've ever had. Claustrophobia, fear, disorientation. I can't even imagine a scarier, worse place to be than a tunnel in Gaza right now.

So from the Israeli perspective, they can take their time. The longer they leave them down there, the less fight they're going to have in them when they come up. But the thing I wonder, and I don't know if anybody's thought about this, we're at a — and by the way, as soon as I say it you're going to slap your head and say, oh, you didn't see this coming. What happens when the entire property of Gaza has martyrs buried underneath almost every square mile? Do you think that the Palestinians say, oh well they're underground, they were going to be buried anyway? Or do they say you've created a new Holy Land because it has the blood of our martyrs in every part of the dirt? I don't know. I feel like it's going to go martyr holy land. That would be the worst case scenario because it seems to me that Israel is probably going to populate it and keep it because to do otherwise would frankly be stupid. Remember all the choices are terrible, right? So if I tell you they should do something and you say but Scott there are 100 reasons you shouldn't, there are 100 reasons you shouldn't and 400 reasons you should, or 500 reasons you should to be precise. So why wouldn't Israel just take the land and keep it and displace the Palestinians forever just because they can? It's simply an option they didn't have before, and I think they would take the option because to do otherwise would frankly be stupid. And if you're going to bring into the conversation what's moral or immoral, I don't think it matters. I don't think it matters because they have such a free pass at this point, at least with some percentage of the world, at least with America. They've got a free pass to do some things that you wouldn't normally think would be cool under other circumstances.

All right, so Time Magazine has a big story about how Ukraine is a total disaster. Everybody's stealing the money we're giving them. They have no chance of winning, running out of money. They're conscripting people in their 40s. Basically they're dead. And as David Sacks says on X, there's another 60 billion going to Ukraine despite — he gives three points. Number one, the US is broke and has to borrow the money. Two, Ukraine is so corrupt that its own officials admit, quote, "people are stealing like there's no tomorrow." And three, there's no prospect for winning the war. Well, I think those are all true. There's no prospect for winning. I don't see any prospect for that. There might be

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a prospect for holding off Russia until there's some kind of a deal. But who's making the deal? They'd have to wait for it. They'd have to hold on until there's a Republican in office or else they're completely dead. So that's all bad. All right, but let's talk about AI. So there's a new executive order from the Biden administration. It has many components to it. It looks like the primary point o…

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