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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2752 CWSA 02/16/25

Sun, 16 Feb 2025

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Chapter 1: What is Coffee with Scott Adams?

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Oh, it's this thing. All right, let's fix that. Comments are now live. There we go. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, because it is.

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And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of Tanger Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day.

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The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Well, I don't know about you, but what I really needed this weekend was a little less news. And thank goodness we got a little bit less news. Trump's been kind of quiet. I mean, he caused a little bit of trouble.

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But Elon Musk says he's taken at least a day or two off because he's getting ready to launch the newest AI, Grok. So things got strangely quiet. But yet, there's plenty to talk about. Did you know that TMZ is reporting that Kanye West, I call him Ye, and his wife Bianca, They don't have a prenup agreement. They don't have a prenuptial agreement. So good job, Ye.

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At what point did he think this one's forever? So that's Ye's situation. And then if you were anywhere near social media yesterday on X, you'd know that allegedly... I'm not even sure this is confirmed yet. But allegedly, Ashley St.

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Clair, who's a conservative-leaning... She's being called an influencer, but that feels a little dismissive because I think she's more of a writer and has a bigger impact. So I would call her a writer. And she's claiming that she had a real-life... affair, I guess, with Musk and had his baby five months ago.

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And then allegedly there's some agreement about the raising of the baby that hasn't been finalized. So Yeh didn't finalize his paperwork. That looks like a problem. And it doesn't look like Elon finalized his paperwork. It feels like a problem. So this is my advice. Don't get involved with anybody unless you've got a lawyer with you.

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You should bring the lawyer on the first date, maybe the second date too. Like, hi, my name's Bob and this is my attorney. He'll be negotiating the paperwork in case this comes to anything. Will you or will you not be using birth control? And we'd like a clause in there that would protect our client. So that's what it looks like in the future.

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I'll tell you one of the things that came out of the whatever's going on between Ashley and Elon, which is really none of our business, but it became public. Was there ever a point you said to yourself, man, I'm so jealous of Elon. He doesn't have to have a wife and he doesn't need to have like a girlfriend who's giving him trouble.

Chapter 2: What insights did Naval Ravikant share about AI?

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He can just create all these baby mamas as long as he can afford it. It's going to be great. And now I'm thinking, how in the world can you survive with that many baby mamas who all just have just one thing they want to ask you today? You know what would be good is if I had a little bit extra money this month. Do you think it ever stops? I wonder if he ever stops getting messages. You know...

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You know, one of the kids is a little older. It wouldn't be bad if, you know, we had an extra million. I don't know how it's going, but I hope he's choosing his baby mamas well. I think some of them are working out pretty well, actually. Well, Naval Ravikant was a guest on All In Pod. And I loved one thing he said because it just calms everybody down. So I'm going to repeat it.

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There's no indication, this is me paraphrasing, so not his words, but there's no indication that AI is going to reduce the number of jobs. There's a lot of indication it will be a tremendous aid to people in jobs. There's a lot of indication that some jobs, entire slices of industries will change, but that is a normal thing.

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There are entire industries that used to exist when I was a kid that don't exist now. So industry is coming and going, pretty normal. But as Naval puts it, it's not so much that AI will cause you to get another job, because as he points out, job sort of indicates you have a boss and you have to apply for it. But it could be that AI will create what Naval calls opportunities.

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So you can say to yourself, hey, I don't know much about this or that, but if I use AI, I'll be as smart as anybody who does this or that. So I'll become a person who provides whatever service or goods, and I'll use AI to figure out how to do it. And it'll even do most of the work. But it wouldn't do it on its own.

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And you're probably always going to need a human to sign papers and work out weird little problems and negotiate things as you go. So this is very much what I've been speculating for a while. that we can't predict AI, but it didn't look like it was going to take jobs. So I've sort of been on this path for a while, but it's good to see Naval say it because, you know, he's smarter.

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So it's good when smart people agree with you. All right, here's something that probably is a nothing, but might be a really big thing. Now, before I tell you, I would like to say what the NPCs will say. I do this as a service so they don't have to do it. When I'm done, I want you to yell, that's soylent green. I don't want to live in a tiny house.

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Swimming is the best form of exercise, and you can't make me eat that, and I won't eat bugs. All right? Does that cover everything? That's everything the obvious people say? Okay. Now that that's covered, you don't need to say those things. Do you get it? It's so you don't need to say them. You could. Yeah, and French press is the best way to make coffee. Thank you. Thank you for adding that.

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That needed to be said. Well, the story is that according to Ben Coxworth, really, that's his last name, Coxworth? Wow, must have been tough in high school. Coxworth. Come on. All right. Okay. Anyway, so there's this kind of a weed that I guess grows in ponds. It's not even a weed. It's called duckweed. It's more like a green slime that grows on stuff.

Chapter 3: How is duckweed protein a potential superfood?

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But the Trump administration does seem to be trying to force the dropping of the charges against him. The people who understand this field better than I do say it's completely inappropriate to drop the charges against him. There's no legal reason to drop the charges. I'm not sure there's no reason.

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If it looks like lawfare, meaning that it's something that wouldn't normally be charged because it's such a small ball, I feel like that's all the reason you should need. Do you need more reason than it's lawfare? I feel like that's good enough. Even if there's a technical violation, like he took some upgrades on a flight or something, I don't care. I don't care at all.

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I don't care if the next mayor does that either. Not really. If you were taking big cash payments, well, then we've got different conversation. But a celebrity or a public figure who's traveling and gets upgraded, it's just the most normal thing in the world. So anyway, it feels like lawfare to me. But here's my point on this.

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It looks like Trump found a new way to get rid of Democrats because Democrats automatically disagree with whatever Trump says is right. So all Trump has to do is start agreeing with a Democrat about anything, and the other Democrats will want to get rid of that person right away. So AOC is trying to get rid of Mayor Adams because he's too friendly with Trump.

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That seems to be—and then they think there's some secret deal, which is not in evidence— But here's what I think. I think Trump should endorse Adam Schiff just to test it out and say, yeah, Adam Schiff, we've had some bad interactions in the past, but I got to say he's the very best Democrat there is. I can't wait to work with him. He's the guy that can really help us with MAGA.

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And next thing you know, they'd be asking for him to be impeached. Because they just have to be whatever is the opposite of Trump. So he can take out any Democrat he wants just by saying, you know, I like that one. You know that Fetterman guy? He's looking real good. Next thing you know, Fetterman, removed from office. Well, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is collapsing.

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Everybody's trying to sell their house because they're all getting fired or they're afraid of getting fired or there are Democrats on the way out. But as... The account called Cynical Publius points out, and others have pointed out, among the top seven wealthiest counties in America, four of them are around Washington, D.C.

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So four out of seven of the wealthiest counties are right around Washington, D.C. And Washington, D.C. doesn't make any kind of product. So... how are all these people making so much money? It's because they're around the money. If you put them around the money, they'll start forming NGOs and scams and grifts and everybody's got a PAC or some damn thing that needs to get funded.

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And apparently there's almost no fiscal responsibility in Washington. That's what Doge has taught us. And if you have no fiscal responsibility, gigantic amounts of money and no product being made except people persuading and grifting, that's what you get.

Chapter 4: What is the Drinking Bourbon Hoax involving Pete Hegseth?

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If you wait long enough, you've got one of the richest counties, or 407 of the richest counties, and you haven't done a damn thing that the country wants. You've just taken the money. That's what it looks like. So we'll see if that era is coming to an end. I might be a little optimistic. And what about David Hogg, who is now one of the co-chairs of the Democratic Party?

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How many of you thought to yourself, it seems to me that all the Democrat leaders are actually just crooks, like demonstrably, obviously crooks. You've heard about the Clinton Foundation. You've heard about Hillary Clinton running the Russia collusion hoax. You've heard about them doing the 51 laptop thing. You've heard about Ukraine. You've heard about USAID. You've heard about all the NGOs.

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It feels like, and of course, in my opinion, nearly every mayor of every city is corrupt. There might be some exceptions, but I feel like you almost have to be corrupt to be a mayor in this country. So what happens when David Hogg comes out of nowhere and next thing you know, he's one of the heads of the DNC?

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Well, according to PJ Media, Matt Margolis and some other people talking about this, as soon as he got into that position, he used the mailing list that belongs to the DNC to raise money for his own political action committee. And his own political action committee pays his $100,000 a year. So he gets put as one of the heads of the DNC, the Democrat National Committee,

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and then almost right away uses their internal source to raise money for himself, literally for himself. Now, it's for his PAC, which pays him. So, you know, it feels like it's for himself. So that's exactly what we expected. Now, I'm genuinely curious, genuinely curious, Do all criminals become Democrats because they know they can get away with more?

Chapter 5: What are the implications of Mayor Adams' lawfare?

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Or does becoming a Democrat turn you into a criminal? Because obviously I'm aware that there are Republicans who are grifters and corrupt, etc. Obviously. But we don't really hear about it much, do we? It feels like it's an exception or something happened with some underling somewhere. But it feels like every single Democrat is corrupt, like all the leaders. And somewhat obviously.

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To me, it looks like, well, this is obvious. I won't name names, but there's some people, just the way they act, they couldn't possibly be acting independently. It's so obvious they're getting a paycheck of some kind. directly or indirectly, that just nobody would act like that, that nobody would act that dumb in public intentionally.

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Anyway, speaking back in Dublin public, I was watching Adam Schiff, who's got kind of a theatrical, let's say, interest. I guess he wanted to be a script writer at one point. And he was getting so theatrical when he was questioning somebody in one of these hearings that it was actually impressive.

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He wasn't really even trying to make an argument on points because he was totally losing on whatever the argument was. He was getting killed. So he just kept ratcheting up the emotion. And then you're saying that you would give money under these conditions. No, I'm not saying so. You're saying it. Well, no, it's the opposite. I'm not. Oh, so you're saying you would give money.

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So under these conditions, you would throw the Constitution under the bus. Is that right? No, nothing like that. So, all right, we've agreed you would throw the Constitution under the bus. And the amount of emotion that was obviously theatrical and fake was kind of impressive. So it made me think, he's a terrible politician, but I'll bet he actually would be good in theater.

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Like legitimately, legitimately, he looks like he has the chops so he could be a professional actor. Anyway, so he's got a future there. Speaking of grift, here's what David Sachs says about Ukraine. He says, with Americans becoming exhausted with forever wars in the Middle East, the, quote, democracy promotion grifters at USAID and NED and the rest of the NGOs needed a new cause.

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Ukraine was perfect. As the most corrupt country in Europe, it would allow them to expropriate billions. Now, is that just the Republican narrative? Because it's the one I see, and it looks obvious to me. Do you think Democrats understand that Ukraine was part grift and part neocons wanting to destroy Russia?

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Or do Democrats think that we were protecting this spunky little country because it should be part of NATO? Like, what do Democrats really think Ukraine was all about? Do they really not have any access to the narratives that are coming out from the Republicans? It feels like they just think, well, let's just give them infinite more money. That should solve everything.

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Because Putin's a bad, bad man. I'm not saying Putin's a good man. I'm just saying... Probably this was a combination of people who looked for enormous grift opportunities and found them, and people who wanted to destroy Russia, and it was an opportunistic way to do it. So, no, it looks like a giant scam to us.

Chapter 6: Why is the D.C. housing market collapsing?

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And the Democrats are finding one reason after another to oppose it all.

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they're using different judges and all the judges or most of them maybe it's just most they seem to have an obvious conflict of interest you know they've got a relative who's a you know a long time democrat fundraiser or basically they all have some kind of dirty connections that make them corrupt looking now i don't know if they're cropped but they they definitely have all the towels for being corrupt

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And they seem to be acting in a way that almost certainly guarantees that the larger question of who gets to run the executive branch, is it the president? Or does every little pissant judge anywhere in the federal system get to stop anything that happens if they don't like that president? Because at the moment, the

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or at least these allegedly crooked judges, are seemingly running the executive branch by saying you can do this, you can't do this, you can only do it then. And there's some thought that maybe this is actually going to be good for Trump. And the thought goes like this.

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That what Trump really needs to do is to get some or all of these to the Supreme Court and then let the Supreme Court decide the most critical issue. Who gets to decide what happens in the executive branch? Is it the president, especially when it comes to budget and staffing? Is it the president or is it all these little pissant courts all over the country?

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Now, I feel like Trump would probably win that if they got to some generalized principle about who's in charge and who can stop you. And at the moment, the only power left that the Democrats have since they lost basically everything is these lifetime appointed, I think they're lifetime, these appointed judges that are clearly just Democrat corrupt operatives. So that's the last power they have.

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So if this stuff gets to the Supreme Court and it becomes a generalized question, who gets to decide what's happening in the executive branch, I feel like the Supreme Court's going to lean toward Trump for all the obvious reasons. So it could be that the last remaining tool that's part of the government anyway, or I guess part of the judicial system,

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The last remaining tool besides the Soros prosecutors could be removed from the system. Not removed, but at least ignored and maybe cast aside. So that could be a really big deal that might actually be part of the Trump strategy is to push every button until this gets to the Supreme Court and then get some clarity. And if the clarity goes Trump's way, Then he can really get busy.

Chapter 7: What role does David Hogg play in the Democratic Party?

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So what we've seen so far may be just a preview because the courts are legitimately slowing him down. What if that stopped? What if the courts stopped slowing him down? I mean, who knows? Anyway, that's going to get interesting. So on CNN recently, Ken Akoa, the great, points out that there was a Democrat strategist, they just had him on, and he was describing why Trump is popular today.

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And he says that he joined the Democratic Party in 1989 because he wanted to fight NAFTA, he wanted to drain the swamp, and he wanted to make sure his tax dollars weren't being wasted or going to foreign wars. So he's saying that basically in the 90s, a Democrat... Sounds like Donald Trump today. So he says, that's why we lose to him, is we've let him steal our verbiage. Now there it is again.

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They think it's the way he says it. It's not the way he says it. It's what he says. people prefer his policies you can look at any poll and then what's the most important stuff and then look at what people think trump can do it's not his verbiage you know he it's not his choice of words it's so ridiculous but he does point out that even you know a lot of the ordinary democrats

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would look at Trump and say, yeah, that's exactly what I wanted, all that stuff. That's what I wanted, you know, give or take, you know, abortion, of course. But abortion is now more of a state issue. Actually, it's entirely a state issue. So he says that's why we keep losing to him. We've quit talking about Americans keeping America safe and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And then he sums it up by saying that Trump is scary. Now, here's the funny part. The anti-Trumpers, they can't resist complimenting him because he keeps doing good stuff. Like they can't really be against him trying to save money. You can't really be against that or getting rid of fraud. It's hard to be against it. you know, fixing the border in days. It's hard to hate that. Stopping wars?

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Looks like he's already going to stop the war in Ukraine one way or another. It's hard to hate that too much. So even when the Democrats talk about Trump, they've got to give him some props because it's stuff that they want to. But then he ends with, he's scary. Okay, how did that fit with all the stuff you said about he's a 90s Democrat?

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If Trump is like a 90s Democrat, not 100%, of course, because abortion and some things are different. But why is he scary? He's scary just because he does exactly what you would do. They just can't avoid throwing in an empty, generic insult. It's just reflex. I don't think there's any thought involved. His entire good point he was making

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about Trump being right in the middle of where America wants the president to be. That was a solid point. And then he ruins the whole thing by saying, and he's scary. Well, did you give me any evidence of the scary part? The scary part is he gives you exactly what the middle of America wants, and most people agree. Oh, that's scary. But on the plus side,

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I do give CNN credit because they put Scott Jennings on the air every day, it seems like, or five days a week. And they allowed this strategist to say some things about Trump getting right. And they do have other people who sometimes say Trump gets some stuff right. So the news, of course, is biased. There are news that's biased on the right. There's news that's biased on the left, left.

Chapter 8: How does MSNBC's bias affect news coverage?

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The thing that allowed the Democrats to lie to the public forever is that they'd say, oh, we don't have many illegals coming across because they would just call them illegal. All they do is have judges say, okay, you're applying for asylum? All right, good, now you're legal. Because until we made a decision that the asylum sticks or it doesn't,

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They were legal because they'd gone through our process to claim asylum. So why is there no conversation about just getting rid of that? Because there can't be that many people who legitimately need asylum. You know, there must be some way to handle it without just having everybody who comes across the border apply for it. So, I don't know. Seems like that should be on the chopping block.

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We just found out that the... So the California Department of Finance revealed that the California taxpayers are spending $9.5 billion to provide health care to illegal aliens. That's just the health care. That would be a third of our deficit spending, just for the health care. If you added the other expenses...

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pretty much the entire economic problem of California, which is pretty bad, is from immigration. I think it's going to be two-thirds of it, and the rest is just poor management. So yeah, we're a mess. It's just, I don't know how history is ever going to deal with this. The fact that California and other places, we opened our borders, we invited unlimited people to come in, to take our money.

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Who invites unlimited people in to take your money? Well, people who are not giving away their own money. It's people who are giving away other people's money. You wouldn't invite people to give in your own money. Yeah. So as long as you can make some money by having other people give away their money, I guess it's going to happen. So that's pretty bad.

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In other news, and part of the news is that this is in the news. So the news is that it's news instead of a secret. Apparently there's a massive shipment of 2,000-pound bombs from the U.S. to Israel. Now, why would Israel suddenly need a massive shipment of gigantic bombs? And these are ones that had been prevented previously I guess Biden did not allow these.

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So Trump is allowing gigantic shipments of very large bombs, Times of Israel is reporting. Now, the reason I say the story is that it's a story is, is this the sort of thing we would normally be aware of? Or is this negotiating with Hamas? Hey, Hamas, you know when we said that if you don't release all of the hostages, that there would be hell to pay? Well, they know what hell looks like now.

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I assume, but I don't know, that these are specifically for crushing tunnels because there's not much left. You wouldn't need these bombs for blowing up buildings in Gaza because they're already blown up. The only thing left is all the tunnels. I mean, I might be exaggerating a little, but basically it's the tunnels.

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So is this a done deal that these are going to be used to clean out the tunnels or is this part of the negotiating? Because at the same time, I guess Saudi Arabia's got some Arab countries getting together to figure out what to do. And they're trying to figure out how to deal with Hamas, but also rebuild Gaza, which doesn't look very possible.

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