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Fuckin' A, man. So Cecil, real quick, I hear the trade war with China is going well. Yeah.

You know what's smart to get into is a trade war with China. What did the Dow bounce back after it dropped the other day?

Oh, I don't think so. Maybe it did. I don't think it recovered all the way.

I do know that I read an article recently that's like, China could just stop buying our bonds.

That's the thing they could just stop buying our debt. They're the largest purchaser of our debt.

Like that's their nuclear option. That's a really good nuclear option.

Well, you know, we trusted, not we, I say we is the country, but you know, they trusted Trump to, you know, deal because he's the dealer.

He's the big deal. He's the dealer. He's the dealer. And so they trusted him to do it. And what you have now is an absolute cluster fuck because it's a guy who's used to, you know, he's used to being able to tell people where the law is.

He's being able to look out. And you know, when you're a business owner, you're essentially a dictator.

You're a dictator. You get to decide, you know what? I'm not going to do that. You know, you get to, you get to hard, hard ball people, pressure them.

You don't, you don't understand how world politics works if that's the case. There's no hard ball pressure here.

Well, I read an article is interesting that the, the tariffs that are going to be in, but so it's tit for tattoo.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Now it's, which is kind of fun to say. So it's different that's a half time. Yeah.

It basically will amount to the largest de facto tax increase on Americans. Yeah.

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