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Order for Jennifer C. Is this my double shot, double cream, double froth, double pump, double whip, double sleeve? Yeah, can you handle that much caffeine? Did you know Discover automatically doubles all the cashback you've earned at the end of your first year? Oh, really? That's great. Seriously, did you know Discover automatically doubles all the cashback you've earned at the end of your first year? Yeah, you just said that. Did you say I just said that? Yeah, I'm cutting you off. I can't have any more? Why not? You earn we match. Discover cashback match. See terms at Discover.com slash credit card. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The full number is 8779773-745. Should you wish to be on the program, I would be very happy to have you. Don't forget, text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 3-3-7-7. Subscribe to the show notes. It's the very first link. Follow me around social media, Instagram and the like. Very happy to have you. Those of you down in Jacksonville, I'll be with you starting tomorrow through Monday as I'm down there for the Players' Championship, meeting listeners and advertisers down there, hanging out with some friends of mine. I mentioned the fantastic fud shop in Ferdinina, and it turns out the owner's a listener. I've been going there since I was in law school. It's the greatest fud shop on planet Earth, and I will be there at some point. I don't know when, however. But I got to go by there. I mean, it was on the list anyway. And now that I know the guy's listener, I really got to go by there. That fudge is fantastic. Now, before I pivot to the Save Act, I don't want to keep Samir on the phone forever while waiting for me to get back to Iran. I want to go on and get this. Samir, welcome to the show. How are you? Hey, how are you doing, Eric Erickson? Great. I have a question. Like in 1945, I'm on the exact sure about Germany, but they split the Germany in half because of what happened during the World War II. I was just wondering if that possibility to happen to Iran with other countries of Arabic nations, pretty much, taking control of the half of the country or quarter of the country, they divided for each country to control that section. So they wouldn't, one, we don't have a large enough allied platform to be able to do that. But two, the nation of Iran, which up until I guess the 1950s was called, or 1940s or 30s was called Persia, is a continuously existing landmass that goes back more than 2,000 years as a comprehensive geographic region. There are certainly portions of Iran where there are tribal, different tribes and even different land. languages that exist in the region, but all of these people view themselves as part of the formerly Persian Empire and now Iran, and they're all committed to Iran. So to divide it would probably cause more harm than good when these people all view themselves as Iranian. So you got a particular situation with like the Cubans.

The Cuban diaspora is spread around the world, but mostly concentrated in the United States, Spain, and elsewhere. The Iranian diaspora, you've got big pockets of it in Canada, Los Angeles. You've got some in Atlanta, where I am, New York City, Chicago. I've got a massive pool of Iranians around the world and in the Middle East and Europe who are just, they would love to go home. And if they went home, the economics of Iran would explode. In fact, there was a report I saw out this morning that what of Qatar's concerns with the United States getting rid of the Iranian regime is that it would make Qatar less relevant because the Iranian diaspora is so entrepreneurial. that they could cause not just Iranian oil exports, but technology exports to explode. A lot of Iranian refugees and part of the diaspora live in Israel now. They're highly trained and technical, and the Iranian entire system could explode if they embraced the free market and had some liberal reforms there. And you've got Middle Eastern partners of ours who are actually worried about that possibility. But at this point, they have all concluded it would be worth it to put up with that just for the Iranian regime to go away. Now, I want to switch to domestic topics. I have not spent a lot of time on the program talking about the SAVE Act because the SAVE Act is dead on arrival in the United States Senate. And I'm really frustrated with portions of con ink, the conservative movement in Washington, D.C. You know, when I was at Red State and beyond Red State, have been a conservative activist for a very long time. I lost many a fight to Mitch McConnell. And I came to appreciate the wily genius of Mitch McConnell against conservatives because one of the things that I have concluded about the conservative movement is we are very, very good at dying on hills. We're actually not very strategic. We're not very strategic at all. We think we're strategic, and we got people within the conservative movement who are very smart, but we would rather die on a hill and be a martyr to a cause and actually get anything accomplished. I very much like the Save Act. I think the Save Act is a very good idea, but I also think the Save Act is in a way like comprehensive immigration reform that is also dead on arrival because it's too comprehensive. The conservatives in Washington, D.C. don't understand that they're losing the online fight with run-of-the-mill ordinary people elsewhere because there's a rumor online that I have now seen circulated. By the way, only about 13 to 15 percent of Americans even know what the Save Act is. But I have seen people who are not involved in politics. who don't pay attention, who aren't normal Americans, who are not hyper online, that they rush to Facebook to update their families. And that's about it. And I'm seeing them on Facebook say, did you all know the Republicans are trying to pass a law that would require all of our wives to have to show up and re-register to vote with their marriage licenses and birth certificates because their names don't match? This is really the level of mendacity of the Democrats are selling in. And I will tell you,

The only time I was ever asked my opinion about the SAVE Act, I thought it was a bad idea to push as aggressively the citizen verification portions. I believe we need a federal law that makes it a felony to vote in any election state or federal if you're not an American citizen. I also believe that the conservatives who drafted the SAVE Act deeply muddied to the water by adding so many provisions to the SAVE Act. We want to make it about citizens. We want to make it about voter ID. If you just made it about voter ID and push the citizenship issue later... you would minimize the democratic abilities to undermine it. And in fact, it is the citizenship requirements as structured in the legislation, which is why even people like John Fetterman who support voter ID, they're rejecting the Save Act. And what do I mean by that? under one of the common interpretations, and you need to understand the conservatives in D.C. say, no, no, no, this is not true. And it's wild. They're insisting it is not true. But everybody else who's read the law says, actually, no, the way it's written, everybody in America is going to have to go show that they're an American citizen in order to vote. And no one's going to be able to vote unless they can prove that they're an American citizen. You already being registered to vote is, according to the critics, not proof enough that you're an American citizen. It would have been real smart for the provision to be structured as moving forward in order to register to vote. Everyone who registers are going to have to show that they're an American citizen. Retroactively, you'll be presumed to be an American citizen, and if shown otherwise, you're going to go to jail for 10 years for voting. Would have been an easier way to make it happen. We need national voter ID. The SAVE Act goes beyond national voter ID in ways that while I think are reasonable, I think are harder to message. And it's dead on arrival in the United States Senate. It's dead on arrival in the United States Senate because there are not enough Republican members of the Senate to support it with all the extra provisions beyond voter ID. If it was just a piece of legislation that said you have to show photo ID to be able to vote, every Republican of the Senate would support it. But it goes beyond that. And while it goes beyond it in ways that you and I might support, you've got to have 60 members of the Senate to break the filibuster. And you probably wouldn't, even if those Republicans supported it who don't support it right now. But what we're also seen with the people who support the SAVE Act is they've moved into Hill to Die on rhetoric, that it is this and nothing else. Let me ask you a question. Would you rather get the SAVE Act passed or stock a bunch of life-tenured conservative judges on the courts in D.C.? Which would you rather do?

Because you can't tell me it's not a binary because one of the positions that the conservatives in Washington are advancing is let's have a talking filibuster. The last time a talking filibuster actually worked was 1898, I believe. Three members of the minority gave up enough that the filibuster was abandoned. And the measure it was on the Sherman Silver Act passed. That's the last time members of the Senate have been able to allow a filibuster to expire. And that filibuster went on for almost 60 days. And in those 60 days, the Senate devoted exactly four other days to the business of the Senate. So let's just, let's say this, you decided to a talking filibuster. You decide to do a talking filibuster, and the Democrats realize that if they give up their toast, if the Democrats give up their toast, so what the Democrats decide to do is they will bank in days of the week where the Senate can move to other business. In the Senate, you have executive calendar days and legislative days. On the executive calendar days, you can get judicial nominations passed, cabinet nominees passed, other things done on legislative days. You focus on legislation. So the Democrats decide they will give one day a week to executive business and the rest of the time they're going to filibuster. That gives you, let's say it goes on for five weeks. That gives you five days to try to get judges confirmed in the United States Senate. And by the way, by the way, during that time, the Democrats can do a quorum call. And when they do a quorum call, every member of the Senate has to be on the floor of the Senate, which means there can be no committee meetings to confirm judges. There can't be any committee meetings to confirm the judges. So the Democrats keep everyone in the Senate for, let's say, five weeks. During that time, you're not going to see any judges passed. During that time, you're going to have no committee meetings passed. You're going to get to the end of the five weeks. And Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis, they're going to reject the Save Act. So it's going to die anyway. You will have not had any judges confirmed. And the Senate will recess for the summer having gotten nothing else done. including a reconciliation package where other conservative priorities could be put in. I like to say that. But... If you're so focused on the SAVE Act that you want to get nothing else done and you're willing to shut down the Senate for three months, because the Democrats aren't going to go to the fight. The Democrats aren't going to abandon the filibuster. Why are the Democrats not going to abandon the filibuster? Because they understand their base wants them to be seen as fighting. You're handing the Democrats a fight on a silver Graham Platner, one that all they have to do is show up, stand, and talk. That's it. All they got to do is talk.

And you know the way the filibuster works under the rules of the Senate for the first hour you talk. And after that, you can start taking questions for people about anything. You can start reading books. You just got to stand. You can't lean on the desk. You've got to stand. Put on it depends. And then somebody asks you a question. You get to rest your voice. And that person can ask a question. That question can be three hours. They can word the question so that they talk for three hours asking you the question that gives your voice three hours to rest so then you start talking again. You just got to stand the whole time. And then when you're done, the next Democrat can stand and start up again. And you can go on for as long as it takes. And do you really think the Democrats are going to fold before the Republicans do? Do you really? Now, the problem is conning can D.C., which again, loves dying on hills, very rarely succeeds in advancing anything. Connie is telling people, if we don't pass the Save Act, we're never going to win an election again. Y'all, will you please stop with the we're never going to win if we don't do this one thing that's never going to happen? Because you won in 2024, including the popular vote, and you didn't have the Save Act. What has changed? Oh, Donald Trump of the Republicans are in charge. You're really trying to tell me that now that Donald Trump and the Republicans are in charge of everything, you're never going to win again unless the SAVAC passes when the Democrats were in charge and you were able to win the popular vote. Is that really what you're trying to tell me? The logic fits, of course, because in 2020, Republicans controlled everything. And they lost the presidency and had to claim it was stolen instead of admitting defeat. The conservative movement in D.C. has gotten very good at becoming professional victims and whining and not actually doing anything. The strategic geniuses in Washington and the conservative movement are very good at finding hills to die on and not very good at getting anything of substance past. And I'm really wishing that we would get a little wiser had you just made it about voter ID. You could tell the entire country. that it was about voter ID. 88% of black Americans support voter ID, and instead... You made it more complicated. You kept adding stuff. It's harder to message, and it's not going to pass. And yet you want to blame people like me for not being agitated enough when it's not worth my time to advocate for something that you designed to not pass. But to fundraise, if I'm so disappointed in this, you could have just done a photo ID bill, and you would have the perfect message. But you complicated it, and now you're going to blame the Senate Republicans for not killing the filibuster and then say, well, the Democrats are going to kill it. When they get back, prove it. Prove to me the Democrats are going to do it because they've said that you've said that the last two times the Democrats control the Senate, and they never did. Those who love him? Listen to find out what he's going to say next. Those who disagree with him also listen to see what he's going to say next. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

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Holy moly, y'all. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. So I just, I got a pretty secure office where I am, where I do my show. And somebody was trying to get into the office and they couldn't get into the office. And I was headed out to the bathroom when I heard him trying to open the door. And I opened the door. And it was somebody going to, there's a criminal defense attorney on the hall. They were headed to that office. They got mine mixed up with that one. And I think I might be high just by having inhaled the air. I don't understand the people who they smoke weed. And do they not think the rest of us can smell it? Good gracious. At least get better quality stuff, buddy. Good Lord. It probably was charged with drugs and is headed to his lawyer's office high as a kite and got confused between her office and mine. Just incredible stuff. All right. All right. I got to move on to other stuff. Do any of you braid hair? Just bear with me here. This is a relevant story. Do any of you braid hair? My daughter, I'm really hoping she brings me coffee. It's one of those days. So my daughter has, she got a haircut once. Maybe I want to say she was in second or third grade, and she has trimmed her hair since, but she's never cut her. She has long hair. Shout out to Runei for our tankless water heater where we never run out of hot water because the only reason we ever ran out of hot water before is because our kid would take these long showers. She's got so much hair. And now we don't. And I tried one time to braid her hair because her mother was out of town and she wanted her hair braided. And I managed. But it wasn't fantastic. I can kind of do it. And you know how I know how to braid hair, basically? You will all laugh at your nerdy host because I like to make holla. He got to braid the loaf. So I know the basics, but I'm better at braiding a loaf of bread than I am braiding my daughter's hair. Well, you can go to people, particularly if you're a black person. There are cosmetologists who are experts at braiding your hair. If you're a black woman or even a young man, in many cases around the country, it's a stylish thing to get your hair braided like that. And boy, does it take some time to do, and it's impressive. My wife has for years always wanted cornrows. Like, not no. No, that might even be cultural appropriation for me, dear. Well, in Louisiana. The Democrats are trying to make it very difficult for any of you to go into the business of being professional hair braiders. Get this. There's a licensing bill before the Louisiana legislature. The Democrats would require 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, an annual exam, and a fee.

You would have to pay money to take an annual exam after being certified for getting 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school. Again, let me just make this as plain as possible for you. In the state of Louisiana, Democrats in the legislature are proposing that if you want to go into the business of being a professional hair braider, you must have 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, pay money every year to take an annual exam to continue your certification. That's what the Democrats want. Do you know what the Republicans want in Louisiana? If you want to be a professional hairbraider, do you know what they want you to do in Louisiana? If you're a Republican, they want you to take an annual 20-question health and safety exam and pay a one-time fee for your certificate from the state. So, Republicans, annual 20-question exam on health and safety. Democrats, 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, an annual exam, and an annual fee. That's Louisiana. In California, do you know what the certification is to be a landscaper in California? It's bizarre. All sorts of fire safety certifications and the like to be a landscaper in California. In California, you'll be a landscaper these days. You want to be a small business in California. They want to overwhelm you with regulatory exams. Do you know how long it takes to open a restaurant in San Francisco right now? Two years. It takes two years to open a restaurant on average in San Francisco. And that's after they streamlined the process to open restaurants in California. Where I am. I ran into this when I was on city council here. The Democrats had passed regulations where to get your occupancy certification, you had to have the fire marshal visit. But before the fire marshal could visit, you had to have your occupation certificate. Think about that. Where I live, we fixed this when I was on city council. It was a very bizarre rule that I knew about because I had been a lawyer helping a business get a liquor license. And to get your occupancy certificate, you had to have the fire marshal pay a visit. But in order to get the fire marshal to pay a visit, you had to have your occupancy certification. How's that work exactly? Well, you had to call one person in county government who knew how to line it up perfectly. It was very bizarre. Thankfully, it got fixed. But a buddy of mine the other day was telling me in my local community run by Democrats, it is extremely frustrating to try to get a business license. He wanted to open his business. Between the P&Z planning and zoning regulations on signage and the building that he bought, he said it was almost like they wanted you.

to not open your business. Meanwhile, in my community, like so many communities, we have these fly-by-night businesses where they set up roadside stands to sell carpets and fake roses and all sorts of stuff. You know and I know that the Planning and Zoning Commission and the occupational business certificate people and the code enforcers are not going out to the guy on the side of the road with the pop-up tin and the fake Persian carpets asking them for their business license. You want to try to start a business and a community run by... Democrats, it's real hard. It's better to be a drug dealer in a community run by Democrats these days because you're not going to get prosecuted taxed or have to get an occupation certification and a business license. Might as well be a drug dealer in areas of the country where the Democrats are in charge because you're going to be less likely to go to jail or pay fines to the government. You want to do a legitimate business in a democratic part of the country? It gets hard. In Washington State, the Constitution in Washington State bans an income tax. The Washington legislature has adopted an income tax. The Constitution says you can't do it. The legislature has passed an income tax despite the constitutional provision prohibiting it because they're calling it a wealth tax, even though it taxes income, not wealth, and they're hoping that the progressives on the Supreme Court of State of Washington will be okay with that and just rewrite the plain language of the Constitution in Washington state. So why Tom, not Tom, sorry, the head of Howard Schultz, the head of Starbucks is leaving. Starbucks is moving his corporate headquarters to Nashville. Other billionaires are leaving. Jeff Bezos has left. Amazon is thinking of leaving. Have we made a major commercial investment in the city of Seattle? They're thinking of leaving or at least going to Bellevue, which is next door, which is doing gangbusters as Seattle taxes the snout of people. The new socialist mayor of Seattle, Washington, has made it against the law for grocery stores to close. Grocery stores are closing in Seattle because the local government has decided to tax them and regulate the snot out of them, and they can't make money anymore. So the grocery stores have started to close. So the mayor of Seattle has made it against the law for grocery stores to close. How is that going to work exactly? I have no idea. They don't seem to know. The Democratic Party in the United States around the country is making it really hard for small businesses to be businesses. They keep saying they're for the little guy, but they keep propping up the major industries. Look at this law in Louisiana. This law that the Democrats want passed is actually being pushed by cosmetology schools. They don't like the fact that you can actually learn how to braid hair by your aunt. by your mom and they go turn it into a business. They want you to get 600 hours of training for it. They don't want you to do that. In Georgia, where I am, every time the Republicans try to make it easier for a local business to set up shop, the Democrats scream that somebody's going to die, someone's going to have a problem, someone's going to get in trouble, someone's going to cause a problem. You shouldn't be able to do it. You should have to regulate the snout out of it.

And then maybe we should let government thrive and government do things. So they want to tax the billionaires out there. The billionaires are bad. The reason a billionaire is a billionaire in most cases is because they came up with an idea the rest of us love. Very few things in government have been as good as the things we get from the private sector. In fact, the good things we've gotten from government that have translated into the private sector have all come from the military and the space program, the one area of the government the Democrats want to cut the budget for. Do you know why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire? You say, oh, well, he started Amazon, of course. You know what Jeff Bezos did? Jeff Bezos found a way to get you within 24 hours the thing that you found online. The obscure object that your heart craves, Jeff Bezos, found the way to get it to you for cheap in 24 hours or less in some cases. That's why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire, because you love to go to Amazon, find that obscure thing no one else has, and get it to your home within 24 to 48 hours thanks to Amazon Prime. That's why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire. You know why the Walmart family, the Walton family are billionaires? Because they found a way to make these massive businesses around the country that sell a lot of stuff for cheap to the poor and the middle class who go shop there and nowhere else because the Walton family found out a way to get them pretty good products at a really reasonable price and then to expand it to groceries as well. And so people who are on fixed incomes go shop at Walmart because it's a whole lot cheaper to shop there than somewhere else. And the Walton family has been rewarded by becoming billion. And now the Democrats think they're bad. The Democrats think Jeff Bezos is bad because he's made a lot of money getting you the stuff you want quickly. Why is Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire? Because Mark Zuckerberg found out a way for your... old classmate from third grade, now that you're in your 40s, to reconnect to you and relive old time from when you were in third grade, you hadn't heard from the person since, and you're kind of intrigued that they found you on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg made a billion dollars by being willing to connect you to people and then being willing to connect you to amazing products on Instagram. Some of my most beloved things that I have in my house for cooking and the like, like my rec tech smoker. I found it on Instagram. I stumbled upon it on Instagram. Didn't know it existed until I found it on Instagram. And now I've got my rec tech in the backyard and I love it. I want to have them as an advertiser. My pizza oven at my backyard. I found Fontana. Family in South Carolina sells these things. It's a giant pizza oven. They even sell them at Costco now. I found it on Instagram. I've never been to a Costco. I don't even have one in my ear. We're about to have one. I am so excited by having a Costco in my area. You can't believe it. But you know what? The Costco is being slowly built in my area. Why? Because of the planning and zoning regulations the local Democrats that put in place makes it hard to build a Costco. The Democrats are really good at smothering something until it's dead and then subsidizing it to shut out the competition.

They're really, really bad at helping small businessmen do well. They're really, really bad at helping entrepreneurs grow. The Democratic Party is relentless in snuffing out the ambitions of entrepreneurs. And then if they still keep at it and they become billionaires, the Democrats want their money. This is a problem. Again, I don't think Democrats have grappled with the fact that they are less popular than even artificial intelligence. The only thing, according to NBC News, that's less popular in this country than the Democratic Party is the Iranian government, and the Democratic Party is cheering on the Iranian government hoping they beat Donald Trump. That's how broken that party is. If... You want to succeed in this country. It's real hard to support democratic policies. And there are a lot of people who, for historic reasons, support the Democratic Party, and I get that. But it's genuinely wild to me to see an entire political party in this country aligning to snuff out the entrepreneurial spirit in America. You know, the bad thing is that Republicans, some of them, are headed this way. When Donald Trump supports taking over business interests in private corporations, all that does is bring in government corruption. When the Republicans want to regulate AI out of business, that just lets China dominate. I got problems with AI myself. In fact, there's a story of the stack of stuff today we put out in the show notes where OpenAI got notice with chat GPT that there was some kid that looked like they might be planning a school shooting. It was a trans shooter. And they flagged it for upper management. And upper managers had just banned their account, not reported to the police. I got problems with AI. But the fact of using AI and deploying AI is not one of them we need to, and we need to dominate it to get to Alice China. My daughter was telling me she's taking a business class in college, and she's getting graded on her use of AI. They want her to figure out how to use AI to help her make her life easier in doing her business tasks because they know that's the way the world is going, so you might as well embrace it. Not to cheat. but to make you more efficient. Might as well embrace it. But what do the Democrats want to do? The Democrats want all 50 states to have unique regulations to be able to smother AI out of the gate so China can dominate. Because if there's anything in this country that is good, makes us better, makes us more competitive or more efficient, the Democrats want to regulate it out of existence. When the truth seems hazy, Eric will clear the way. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Just joined us? No worries. Check out the Eric Erickson Show 24-7 stream at Ericerickson.com. Available for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

There's a shooting, active shooter situation happening at a synagogue in Michigan right now. In the last two weeks, we've had an active shooting situation at a synagogue. We've had an Islamic radical killed three people in a mass murder in Austin, Texas. We had an Islamist attack in New York City. And there are rumors in Virginia right now that the shooting at Old Dominion University was also an Islamic radical. We certainly do see people not necessarily sleeper cells. but we certainly see people who hate the United States, who are inflamed against the United States, who are targeting American citizens, Jews, and others. Again, right now, as I'm speaking to you, there is an active shooter situation at a Temple Israel outside of Detroit. There are also in the last two weeks been the Islamic shooting, Islamic radical shooting in Austin, and Islamic radicals throwing bombs in New York City. We had this morning had an active shooter situation at Old Dominion University in Virginia. The rumors, and again, they are rumors. I'm going to be very careful with that and tell you they are rumors. And the rumor is that it was possibly someone looking for an ROTC class in which to open fire. I've got a number of people within the... Virginia government who I keep in contact with who are telling me that they are trying to substantiate that for sure, but that's the way it's looking based on what people were told on the ground. Thankfully, the death toll was only two, still too, too many, but also the shooter is dead there. Keeping an eye on the situation in Michigan right now as reports are coming in about this shooting situation there at Temple Israel. So stay tuned. This does not mean the sleeper cells are waking up. But you know what's going to happen here is... that the Democrats who flooded the border with illegal aliens and now refuse to fund Homeland Security are going to blame Donald Trump for all of these things. We've seen these Islamic attacks around the country for the last number of years and the Democrats find ways of excusing them and now they're going to find a way to blame Trump. It's what they do. Time and time again, the Democrats want to blame Donald Trump instead of confronting the immigration policies the Democrats themselves have deployed that minimize dissimulation into this country and maximize people who do not like this country coming into the country. Now, with all of the turmoil and markets and roiling and the like, let me just tell you that you need to go to swissamerica.com slash Eric. And you need to educate yourself because they have very good market and commodities information there on their news and insights tab. If you go to swissamerica.com slash Eric, you'll see the tab on the website. They have a rolling blog. They've got a great podcast on YouTube as well at Swiss America Trading. And you can also get their secret war on cash report completely. free, just go to Swissamerica.com slash Eric today. Swissamerica.com slash E-R-I-C-K. Sign up and get the secret world cash report completely free. It applies to crypto as well as the government tries to steer your spending. But you can also see their blog, their news, their information. You can get all their information on precious metals trading. And you can get the free report. You can also call them at 800-289-26-46. Or just text Eric, E-C-K, to 800-289-26-486.

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