Akela frames both major US parties as bipartisan on war, spending, foreign military aid, and COVID-era state reaction, despite surface polarization.
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Spending
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
Key Notes
Greg tells listeners to spend less unnecessary money and stop constantly meddling in systems when their own local engine is already running well.
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"...common issues when it comes to war when it comes to spending when it comes to uh sending military aid overseas or or for..."
"as a globalist entity that wants to take sovereignty over individual countries so that was exited but um there's still so much that's that..."
"But it is close. Other than that, try not to spend unnecessary money and resist the temptation to constantly meddle in the system instead..."
"...to understand the world from this person's perspective. And then after spending days, months with that person, and talking to other people around him..."
"...became aware that hands might open too wide, like wings, in spending, and of this, as of my other sin, I did repent."
"...after the war started, you have this huge bump in military spending in the Russian Federation. But the thing to keep in mind is..."
"...then four years later, boom, okay? It's basically tripled. So they're spending a lot of money and they're investing in each other. Why? Because..."
"...I don't. Last June, when we were bombing Fordow, I was spending two weeks in China visiting its advanced industries, the Xiaomi, that's electric..."
"...gotten countries, except for Canada, to agree to that 5%. GDP spending limit or floor. So really, these are things that had to be..."
"...like either you're in finance and you're just trading speculating a spending economy or you're in finance and you're just trading speculating a spending..."
"...on another platform, customer support slash CRM somewhere else. And you're spending thousands of dollars a month on all these tools and you barely..."
"...did all the other money go? Right? And they were actually spending a lot of their money on charity. So Andrew, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller..."
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