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et? Quite a few, right? So and I'll stay with that. You might be the smartest person I've ever met. Now here I'm calling smart not just depth but breadth. He can tell you the better take on more topics than any human being I've ever met and it'll be a different take and it'll be better than one you had on so many different topics. It's crazy. All right, so when he talks there are enough people, c…

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te's charges depended entirely upon the fact that there were also federal violations per their case. So if you were to pardon Trump from the federal part of it it would make the state part of it dissolve because the state part of it depended on the federal part. So even though the federal part was not really what the state found they still relied on the jury thinking a federal thing had been violated so that they could apply the state thing to the higher level crime of felony because it supported the other charge or vice versa. One supported the other. I forget which way it went. But I don't know if I buy that. It sounds right but I feel like there might be an alternative legal theory about whether that's practical. I like the thinking. And once again if it's true, if it's true, how did we get this far and why did Vivek have to be the one to bring it up because he went to a little bit of law school? So he's the only one to have figured it out. Man, do we need him in the government. We need him so much, right? Even if he's wrong on this at least he came up with this and that's pretty good anyway.

So yeah, I do think Vivek is the primary thing that could keep Trump alive if they wanted to be vice president and got nominated for that. Because he's the one that I think the CIA would be most afraid of who not named Trump. So I think he's the way to keep Trump alive. It would be wild if Trump nominated Vivek for vice president and said directly you know what, some other people were my top choice but Vivek will keep me alive. Can you imagine that? Because it was real. It's real. But he could say that directly. You know if Vivek didn't want the job, he wanted to have a different role. I had somebody else in mind but honestly he's the one who's going to keep me alive. I'd love to hear him say that directly.

All right, getting back into the Soros mystery. I asked why is it that Soros is doing what he's doing and I wanted other people to explain it to me like I'm an idiot so I could understand why Soros would be funding so many things that seem disastrous for the country that he lives in. Why would you destroy the country that you live in? Now I'm being called naive and uninformed. And here's what I heard from a user online. That Soros supports anarcho-tyranny, all the things we're seeing in the country, because he believes, now this is the mind-reading part, because he believes in a globalist agenda that transcends national borders. And it wouldn't matter that he's a citizen of the United States because Soros's preference would be that states go away and he'll do fine because he's rich. That ain't it. That ain't it. I feel like this is an analysis that comes from people who have never been rich. May I give you my rich guy analysis? It's the only one you should listen to. Because Soros is rich. If you're not hearing the opinion from somebody also rich, I mean I don't have anything like his money but I've experienced going from poor to being wealthy. It changes you. And here's the thing you want the least if you're on top. So right now he's sitting at the pinnacle of human beings. You don't want that to change. If you're at the top the last thing you want in a risk-reward world, the last thing you want is to change the whole system that you're dominating at the top. That introduces a risk of total collapse that would take him from the top to not the top. It could make every dollar he owns worth nothing, right? So being in the top 1 percent, let me tell you for sure because I'm in it, I don't want the whole system to change dramatically in any way. Now do I think that the whole system should be changed dramatically? Yeah, I can think of lots of ways. But I would want to do them carefully and without changing the general structure of what got me to where I am. The last thing I want is to have the country thrown into chaos and then I have to figure out how to create a good situation from scratch. I'm already in a good situation. If you've never experienced going from uncertainty and economic low income to a place where you would call yourself wealthy, when you get there the last thing you want to do is change the whole world into something you don't even know what will happen. Nobody does that. And among the group of the nobodies who would do that, the top, top, top, the very number one person who wouldn't do that is a person who's famous for being good at risk analysis. That's what Soros is famous for. He's apparently unusually good at risk analysis. Nobody with risk analysis ability destroys the whole system without a replacement. You know that's right. Online nobody does that. So the idea that he's in favor of destroying all the borders and forming a global network is crazy.

Now here's the other thing. If a globalist one-world government were to be formed, have you thought through who would be in charge? That have you lived in the real world at all? If you form a real world government of the top richest people like actually an official government they would just fight with each other. It would be like the Democrats and the Republicans. They would be fighting the fight of all fights when none of them need a fight. All the billionaires are already the champions of the world. They can do whatever they want. They can affect governments easily. Why would they change their situation dramatically? And if they did why do you think Soros would be the top billionaire? Don't you think he would get demoted as likely as promoted? It would be the craziest, riskiest, chaotic thing to ever do if you are already at the top.

The next thing is that people say he's doing it for money. Scott, you don't understand. He destroys countries and then he bets against their currencies and then he makes a whole bunch of money. Now I need a fact check on this but am I crazy or is Soros trying to give away his money? My understanding is he's trying to donate most of it. In the context of trying to give away most of your money you're not doing gigantic terrible illegal things to make more money. It doesn't even make sense. How does any of that make sense? So whatever is going on here I have no idea. I have no idea. I just know that the simplistic explanations of a globalist one-world government don't track at all with who Soros is. And I'm not reading his mind. I'm saying that nobody in that situation would want that choice. Nor have you ever heard anybody. Show me a billionaire who really wants governments to go away and have one world government. I don't think there are any. And definitely not him because he's good at risk management and nobody would do that. It would be crazy anyway. So that's still a mystery.

Let's talk about the Israel peace deal. As I told you on day one it was always fake. So there's not really a peace deal that anybody's going to take too seriously. But it looks like Israel's going to buy some time. I don't know how long it will take to get whatever they need done in Rafah but it's probably a few months. You don't think that they can stall negotiations for two months? Of course they can. Of course they can.

The World Economic Forum is even the more ridiculous theory. Yeah, I think Elon Musk is right about them being a club for rich people. If Elon Musk isn't worried and he's about as close to the inside of the

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world as anybody could be and he seems totally unconvinced there's any danger there and I agree with him completely. I think it's just a club for rich people. Meanwhile in Ukraine, Russia's trying to bomb Kharkiv. What is the second biggest city? It's not Kiev. It's Kharkiv. I forget anyway. It looks like the Russians are trying to take out their vital services and depopulate it before they do an…

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