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o the US, I think these will come off, meaning the tariffs. But if fentanyl does not end or Trump is uncertain about it, they will stay this way until he's comfortable. He said that on Meet the Press. Now I hate to be negative Nelly, but I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term fentanyl. But I also don't have a better idea. It's the only idea…

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the liberals seem to be getting violent. You know, they're attacking Tesla locations, etc. And so they've got cursing, they've got cringe videos, they've got random violence. And then they've got Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat from Georgia. He just in public, in public, he actually said this. He believes that Trump and the MAGA movement want Black Americans quote confined and back to quote picking cotton. So that should move the ball forward.

And then Jasmine Crockett, who might be the dumbest Democrat of all, so they're giving her the most attention because they're like, oh I don't know if the cursing and the cringe videos and the violence are enough. We better have our dumbest worst spokesperson be the most prominent one. So Jasmine Crockett went on some show, MSNBC, and said it's not illegal for illegal aliens to come into the country. It's not a crime. It's not a crime to come into the country illegally. They're not sending their best.

Anyway, as you know, the teachers unions are destroying America because the foundation of American power is education. If you get education wrong, which we apparently are doing, you don't really have a future. There's no chance. And that's where we're at. And mostly I would say that's the fault of the teachers unions. And the teachers unions of course would like the kids to have a good education but their primary concern is the good of the union itself and whatever is good for the Democratic party. So if your main criteria is not the well-being of the children, and clearly it's not, you're going to get the result that we see. Just horrible, horrible outcomes.

But there's apparently a force that has been organizing to give an alternative to the unions. It's called the Freedom Foundation. And they're hosting, they're just getting started. But one of what they want to do is promote some kind of alternative for teachers that don't join the union. So they would give teachers liability coverage, better curricula, some patriotic and pro-capitalist teachings and professional development. I assume those are things that the union does. So they're trying to match the benefits without all the bad stuff, which is basically just being a tool of the Democrats. So if we can figure out how to break the hold of the teachers unions, the United States has a chance. Maybe this is it. Maybe they just needed an alternative.

Meanwhile Steve Cortes just put out a documentary that looks fascinating. And he's down in Starr County, Texas, which is almost entirely Hispanic and is pro-Trump. And you really have to see it. You know, I've been telling you forever that if you have a lot of contact with the Hispanic community, the recent immigrants, you could have seen it coming that they would be more pro-Trump because they're all about God, family, work. They're not about woke at all. And they don't mind seeing deportations because it's a problem to them too. So I recommend it. Steve Cortes, just look for his account on X and you'll see his documentary. Very interesting.

I had a little conversation back and forth with Konstantin Kisin. You would know him from his podcast Trigonometry but also a very smart commentator about all things geopolitical. And he had some things to say that I thought really interesting. And I felt like I didn't know all the elements of it so I had some followup questions. But let me tell you where that went.

So it started out by he was talking about a 1997 book by this guy Alexander Dugin who wrote that, among other things, now this is 1997 so it's been around a while, that quote, "Russia should introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic and social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements, extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the US. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics." So that would be one way that Russia could destroy the United States.

Now you've probably also seen the work of this guy, a Russian guy named Yuri Bezmenov, who has a similar message. And he's been saying that the Soviet Union at least had this plan to destabilize American culture by basically amplifying destructive forces.

Now I asked Konstantin, you know, what would be the evidence that Russia is actually doing this? Because maybe there is, you know, maybe there's a whole bunch of places where we've spotted them doing it. And he clarified that it wasn't about Russia per se but i

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t might be something that all of our adversaries are doing. China, Qatar, Iran, and Russia. But the weird thing is, and one of the things he mentioned was the Tenet Media situation. Do you remember that? It turned out that Tim Pool and Dave Rubin and some other podcasters were receiving money from a group that had some Russian backing. But they didn't know it. And the group wasn't asking them for…

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