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down on the ground and see if you can be useful or at least find out what's going on. And if the producers want to go to a commercial, well let them go to a commercial but that's not your problem right now. So that's my advice. All right. So that weird thing was happening. And then a little bit later, like almost the same time, I switched to CNN and I learned that Judge Jeanine from Fox News, you…

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oe Biden and Jill Biden appeared on The View and it looked like they were trying to rehabilitate Joe in the public to make it look like he's functional and always was. And he did not look functional. He looked like he was a mess and Jill had to jump in and try to save him on one important question.

But apparently even the Democrat consultants are mad that the Bidens returned to the spotlight. How would you like to be a Democrat and you're trying to recover from just a disastrous last year and the thing you want more than anything is for people to think about the future and maybe your new candidates and then the news cycle gets absorbed by Joe Biden looking incompetent again. Worst case scenario.

So a very bad week to be a Democrat consultant when Biden's just out there looking bad but apparently it's going to get worse. So Scott Jennings is teasing that he said this in a post on X. He said between what we saw of Biden today on The View and my understanding of what's about to drop in the Tapper/Thompson book, uh oh I don't think Dems have fully internalized the nuclear bomb that's about to hit their party. Oh my goodness.

So it looks like Jake Tapper and somebody named Thompson have a book that will not be kind to the Bidens. And it sounds like Scott Jennings had a little preview of what's coming. Do you think that's hyperbole? Do you think that Scott Jennings is getting out a little bit over his skis or is this book going to be that devastating? I feel like it might be that devastating. Because the media really needs to make sure that the blame looks like it's just on the Bidens because then the media doesn't look like they're complicit. So I think the media has to hit the Bidens as hard as they possibly can and that they feel safe to do it and it's even profitable at the moment. So yeah there might be some fun coming there.

Let's check how I did on my prediction about the UK trade deal. You remember yesterday I said when the trade deal was being announced I said that the left-leaning media would say it's no big deal and it's a special case and it really is not indicative of anything good happening and it wouldn't be much benefit whatsoever to America. Well that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened.

But it is a small deal and apparently our trade imbalance with the UK was never much of anything to worry about anyway. But it looks like what they've talked about anyway it's not a signed deal. It's more of a memo of understanding kind of situation. So in exchange for the UK purchasing Boeing jets and giving American farmers more access to the UK the US is going to allow Rolls-Royce jet engines to be imported tariff-free. Is that all?

There will still be a 10% tariff on the UK which is way up from what 2.4%. And apparently we didn't have a trade deficit with the UK. They were buying more than we were buying from them. So it looks like it was a pretty small potatoes deal. It was the easiest one to do because there wasn't much going on that either side cared about too much I guess. So on one sense I think the critics were right. It's not really indicative of anything else that's going to happen anywhere else. It was the easy one. It was a special case.

However there's not really any chance that that's the only trade deal. So the fact that the easy one went first probably doesn't tell you much of anything. It just would be the obvious one to go first. So we'll see.

In other good news according to the Post Millennial the world's second largest car maker which is the Volkswagen group and I guess they own Audi I think they do they're going to look to move production to the United States at least for Audi and that woul

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d be another big deal. Trump is saying it's great for our American farmers and ranchers. Well good. So the one thing that Trump promised us appears to be real which is that big companies will move their production into the United States if they can and the car manufacturers are probably among the ones who would have the easiest time moving their production. So looks like it's happening. In other…

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