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t we're the victim of one of those Holocausts. So there's no chance we're gonna have a comprehensive deal with China. There's no chance. We might have some smaller things but there's no chance that we'll ever have a comprehensive trade deal. Decoupling is going to happen. Alright that's enough of that. Repeating myself too much in the last 10 minutes. Has anything happened in the impeachment thea…

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eople, and I don't know this so somebody you know maybe Dr. Drew or somebody knows a lot more than I do about addiction can answer this, but it seems to me that vaping is a drug and it makes people who were trying to get off drugs maybe that much harder. I don't know but it seems to be that being a smoker and trying to get off drugs would be confusing because it is a drug. Now I'm not an expert on that and I've heard plenty of addicts say that they're glad they have cigarettes because you know at least they have that and it helps them stay off the other stuff. Maybe. I'm no expert. It could be. It could work both ways. It could be for some people having a little bit of a vice even though they might get lung cancer is better than being an addict to the other. For other people if you have a little bit of anything you know it's just a slippery slope.

But here's my opinion. I hate vaping. I hate it like deep in my bones I hate it. And I have to admit when people do it around me I have a reaction that makes me need to leave the room. It's just personal emotional hatred but it's because of my experience. It's not because of the science on vaping. So I don't have a scientific opinion. I don't have a legal opinion or a policy opinion on it. I hate it. I don't want to be around it and if it became illegal I would listen to the griping about it. I would understand that certainly there's an argument to be made that it helps you get off of regular cigarettes. I think that's a fair argument. I wouldn't criticize that at all. But I can't help how I feel. So trying to separate for you my opinion, you know how I feel, with what makes sense from what's logical. Logically I get the argument freedom is good. Logically I get the argument that it could help you quit regular cigarettes. Logically I get the argument that the problems probably will be isolated and it's the secondary market stuff for the black market stuff. I get all that. That doesn't change the fact that I hate it. So just being honest.

Alright I believe that's all I got to say. Vapors are exhaling nicotine in me is that true? I don't even know if that's true. Somebody's saying that in the comments. Somebody says legalize drugs except vaping or remember yeah if vaping were illegal I suppose we'd be getting it from the cartels so yeah there's no point making it illegal. Is that loserthink? Well I think if you kno

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w that the science or the facts are on one side and yet you feel a different way as long as you're aware of that difference I think you're in reasonably good shape. You can't change how you feel sometimes. Nicotine is higher in vapors yeah I just don't know if you can get a secondhand vaping from it. Alright that's all I got for now. I'm gonna go watch the impeachment theater see if anybody says…

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