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Hi what's up? Well Donald Trump went on Tucker Carlson's show last night.

Is it a substantive exchange of ideas?

Well, I mean, I guess we're back to Kabukiland.

Is he rolling out a new policy?

Did he have a new substantive white paper that he was going to roll out?

He came out with a solve entitlement reform with this one weird trick.

You know, so I guess Tucker is back to doing the K-Fib.

Yeah, I really love Trump.

And there's several things to unpack,

but I guess the most interesting thing

is Trump going on and on, basically unprompted about his three favorite dictators and how

top-notch they are and how Xi, Jim Ping, and Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin are all just

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