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Come on in here.
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If you're looking for the Dilbert comic for this morning, I got a little bit behind, but it will be there after the show, after I have a minute to post it, but at the moment, no. So get on in here. We're going to do the simultaneous sip.
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Does everybody feel awesome? All right.
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I think it's time for the simultaneous sip. And for that all you need is a copper mugger, glass of tanker shell cysteine, a canteen sugar flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now. I almost said drown me now. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine. End of the day, the thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous set, but it's going to happen right now. Go.
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Spectacular.
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All right, everybody feeling like they want to find out what's happening in this world?
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All right, I've got my notes. I'm not printing them out anymore. I did buy a new printer, by the way, so I've got a brand new functional printer, but I got hooked on not printing them out, so. Saved a few minutes. Saved a few minutes. All right.
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I saw a quote on X from Aaron Gwynn. I don't know who Aaron is, but Aaron says funny things. And.
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The quote was, we know psychology is a scam for two reasons. Do you believe that? Do you think psychology is a scam? Well, Aaron gives two reasons, but I think they might come from somebody else. Number one, all the children of psychologists are insane. Well, it's a little bit harsh, isn't it? But it does seem to me that the children of psychologists tend to be a little insane. Okay, I'm not going to say that's true, but I'm not going to say it's not true. And then the second reason that psychology is a scam, this is according to David Mamet, in 100 Years of Psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.
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Do you believe that? Have you ever known anybody who had bad psychological problems, then they went to their, they went to their psychoanalysts and then they got better?
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I've never heard of it. Have you? Well, let's assume maybe it's working for somebody. But, you know, I do think sometimes that just the, the mere act that you're doing something to try to improve your situation.
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Maybe that does something for your psychology because you feel like at least you're, you know, taking it into your own hands.
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Well, Samsung is reportedly making millions of OLED displays for an apple foldable Phone. Don't know when that Apple foldable phone is coming out, but I saw it being mocked as Apple's finally caught up to 2019. Did we have a foldable phone? Not an Apple phone, but did Samsung or somebody have a foldable phone in 2019? And Apple is just catching up to it seven years later? Is that real?
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I gotta say, Apple doesn't make bad decisions. So probably there was some problem like supply chain or you know, maybe they weren't reliable, they broke or something, maybe something like that. But it does feel, it does feel like Apple's not exactly the leading edge at the moment, does it? All right.
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I don't know who is asking for a foldable phone.
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But I'd like one. How many of you would not want a foldable phone?
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Is there a reason not to have one? Because if it's not folded, it's sort of exactly like a regular phone, right? Almost exactly. Except the screen would be using up too much real estate compared to the battery. All right, well, you're sort of a big day, but it kind of comes with a small squeak instead of a roar.
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And.
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Goes like this. Elon Musk was at some event, he was talking and he said the full unsupervised driving is pretty much solved at this point. And that robo taxis with no safety monitors, that would be a human who's sitting there just for safety will roll out in Austin in about three weeks. So in three weeks that day will finally have come where at least in Austin. And we assume it will roll out pretty quickly other places, maybe not quickly in California because we're bad at everything. But that does seem like an impressive point in, in history, doesn't it? Like one of those days that will be remembered forever. The, the day that full self driving.
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Became ordinary. Like nobody's even, I don't think anybody's even complaining that it would be less safe than a human.
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Have you heard anybody make that argument? I think that argument is solved. So of course self driving would have to be, you know, 10 times safer or some number than human driving or else we won't trust it. But I think it's there. So this is a whole new world. Just in time, because I'll need that self driving car.
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All right. And then Elon says we're going to add a lot of reasoning and, and more to the car to get to serious scale. Tesla will probably need to buy it to build. This is what Musk says to build their own giant chip fab to have a few hundred gigawatts of AI chips per year. And Elon says, I don't see that capability coming online fast enough, so we'll probably have to build a fab. Now, how would you like to be that confident about your business abilities?
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Let me read this again and just try to hold this in your head that there wouldn't be anyone else who would be able to make enough of the giant of the chips. So they're going to get into the business and scale up faster than people who are already in the business. And it will. It will get to a superior place so fast that it would be better than waiting for them. That's pretty confident.
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Can they do it? Probably. Probably. I. I do think they probably can, so it'll be impressive when they do. Well, here's a story that just keeps popping up. And I don't believe. I didn't believe it the first time, and I don't believe it the second time. And that is. I don't know. Was it on. Was it on Joe Rogan's show again? It was on somebody's podcast that new radar scans reveal a massive engineered substructure beneath the Giza pyramids. Does that sound familiar? Like it's not the first time you've heard this exact story. Maybe the picture is different, but do you believe that we can, with any kind of technology that we have, do you believe that we can look under the pyramids and see a giant structure and we've determined that it might be an energy grid beneath the pyramids?
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I'm going to say no.
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I'm going to say no. So so far, I've got a pretty good record of when I say nope. Just on the surface. I don't have to do any research.
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It's definitely not true. So far I've been right. We do have a question mark about the. What was it called? The.
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The sonic weapon under the embassies. I'm still open to that being a sonic weapon, but my first impulse, and I'm staying with it, is that it was fake and that there was no sonic weapon. Possible, though. It's possible. I'm going to stick with no. No sonic weapon. Yeah. And the claim about the pyramid seems a little complex. Yeah, I don't believe it. All right, what else we got going on?
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So it's going to be all fake news today.
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How many of you remember when I used to bug the hell out of you by claiming that the slippery slope is not a logical structure? Meaning that if your reasoning comes from the slippery slope that you haven't done Any reasoning at all. Do you remember I used to say that all the time and people would get so mad, they'd say, what about this example? What about this example? It's obvious that if you go down the slippery slope, you can predict where it's going to go because it's slippery. It's slippery. And I kept saying, that's not a thing. There's no kind of logic called the slippery slope. Well, you can still argue with me on that, but Eric Nolan at PS is talking about a study in which they found that conservatives are more prone to slippery slope thinking. Do you think that's true? That if you're a conservative and something, you know, starts going in the direction you don't want it to go, you're more likely to think it's going to keep going?
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I don't know how much more, but apparently there's, you know, an identifiable difference. Now that would explain everything because, you know, I didn't really spend much time interacting with anybody conservative for most of my early, you know, early adulthood.
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But as soon as I did.
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I kept seeing people claim the slippery slope and I kept saying there's no logic called slippery slope. Sometimes, sometimes things keep going the way they're going and sometimes they don't. There's no logic to it. You can't use that to predict. But people did, they did use it to predict and sometimes they would get it right because there were only two ways that something could go. You're either going to get more of it or you're not. So since there are only two ways a thing can go, there's either going to be more of it or there's not going to be more of it. You had at least something like a. It's not literally true, but it's something like a 50, 50 chance that you're going to get the right answer for no logic whatsoever. So half of you are going to say, yeah, I told you there's a slippery slope. And look, as soon as, as soon as we let our 17 year old get a tattoo, next thing you know, she comes home and she's all tatted up. Well, you know, yeah, it's not as if things never go in one direction. Sometimes they do, but it doesn't mean you can predict it based on slippery slope. Anyway. So the only reason I bring this up is that I'm pretty sure almost every one of you. Oh, actually I'm kind of curious. Show me in the, in the comments, how many of you believe that the slippery slope is a way for predicting the future. That, that's a, that's a valid kind of a logical way to predict the future. How many, how many think that?
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I'm just looking at your comments now. All right. It'll take a while for the comments to catch up to where we are, but you might be right. As far as I can tell, slippery slope is not part of logic.
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President Trump continues to be quotable. So here's, here's something Trump said.
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About Somalia. He said, quote, I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Somalia. To which I say, oh, well, it feels like a step in the right direction, because if he called it a shithole, well, that would obviously be racist. But if you call it a hellhole.
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Not so bad. Right? So maybe he's, maybe he's going in the right direction. He's gone from.
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Well, no, would be below hell hole. Well, no hell hole would be pretty low. What is worse, a hellhole or a hole? I think we need to know that. Hell hole or shithole? I'm going to run a, I think I'll run a poll or maybe one at vcan. Right, Run a poll. What's worse, a hellhole or a shithole?
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All right.
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Trump is also at some event, he said that he believes that New York Times and the legacy media have committed treason with their fake news.
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And the fake news that he's mad about is that they seem to be reporting that his health is slowing him down. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Trump's health is slowing him down?
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I'm not really seeing it. I mean, it wouldn't be unusual that somebody has, you know, one week that's different than the other week. But you think. So.
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Do you think he's slowing down? I can't tell if you're comments are to what. Sometimes I see the answer, but then I've lost the, the thread of what it was to. All right.
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People confuse intentional with being slippery. Yeah, intentional would be predictable. If you knew somebody was intentionally driving something in some direction, that would be, that would be somewhat predictable.
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All right, so we're still back there because we got lots of people watching. All right, So I don't, I don't know that the New York Times has committed treason by.
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By reporting that they think he's slowing down at the age of 80. Ish. I don't think that's the worst problem in the world. Like, if you've got a president who is so experienced and so good that at age 80, people are saying, yeah, that's a good president.
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I don't think I'd worry about him slowing down.
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All right, but definitely not a treason. I think he goes too far when he calls stuff like that treason. Clearly it's political, and clearly it's fake news. But treason. Treason is a little bit of a threat, and I don't think we need that. Although you could argue that they're just using free speech, and you could argue that he's just using free speech, but it's not the kind of free speech I appreciate. It's legal, but I don't appreciate it.
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All right.
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Did you know that there is a. Apparently a sophisticated smuggling network that was operating in the country?
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And the attorney general for it looks like Texas.
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Got a hold of him. And justice will be coming. But did you know that that's a big thing? So a bunch of chips for AI I think, were being stolen and sent to China, it looks like.
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I feel like we should just steal our own stuff and give it to China. Cut out the middleman, because it always ends up there. Right.
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How would you like to be the. The person who receives the new technology? You know, the stuff that China doesn't have. But you're. You're a Chinese scientist. You're like, all right, here's a chip.
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Reproduce this chip.
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How do I do that? Just copy it? Doesn't really work that way.
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It can't be easy to copy a microchip, can it? Is there some way to actually take a photo of it and then move it directly over to another machine to make a copy? There might be. Maybe. That's the thing. I don't know how you copy a microchip.
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Well, CIA director or former CIA director. He's not there now, but John Brennan, actually, according to Wall Street Apes, I saw them. They found a video of him recently in which he said the CIA pays people to be spies and then blackmails them if they change their mind.
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So. So what they try to do, CIA, According to Brennan, is that they try to make sure that the spy takes some money when it. When it's early on in the relationship. Because if the spy has taken money and then they get cold feet later and they, you know, think maybe it's too risky and they don't want to do it, then the CIA could just sort of whisper to him, so. So then you don't want to take money for spying against your home country? Is that what you're saying? No, no, no. Don't tell anybody. I thought we had a deal. Oh, we do have a deal. Yeah, I'm just trying to get clear. Are you saying that.
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Are you saying that you're no longer going to take money for spying against your home country? Now, just that question alone. I'm making this part up. This did not come from Brennan. Brennan. But if you simply frame the situation that way, a spy is going to assume that you're going to turn them in.
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If you stop spying for him, or at least they'll be at risk. So if you wondered, is the CIA.
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A spy organization that's also a blackmail organization, the answer is apparently, yes. Apparently, yes, that the CIA uses blackmail as part of their normal operations, which is no surprise to anybody who's ever watched a movie about a spy. I mean, is there anybody who didn't know that? So that puts the whole Epstein thing in a different light, doesn't it? It's one thing if you knew. I suppose it's possible that these intelligence agencies are using blackmail, and I guess it's possible they might have used Epstein for that. But if you go from it's possible to it's the routine way we do this and always have. Well, that looks pretty different, doesn't it? Yeah. So I saw a factoid today that I did not fact check. Can somebody give me a fact check on this? Is it true that famous gangster Whitey Bulger. Bulger or Vulgar from Boston, who was an informant for the FBI, but also a, you know, a top criminal in the area.
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Is it true that the day he got to prison, he was murdered? So that I wasn't aware of, but it might not be true. Can somebody give me a fact check on that? Did Whitey Bulger get murdered, like, the day he walked in?
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Because there's a big difference between going to jail for a number of years and then something happens to you one day versus being killed the same day you go into jail. That feels like it's sending a message, doesn't it?
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One of them is just the way things work, and the other one is sending a message. Okay, well, yeah, maybe. Maybe you were. You were a. What do you call them? A weasel. Maybe you were a weasel. Maybe you were a rat. But. And then, you know, 10 minutes after you reach jail, you get murdered. Yeah, that's a message. So it makes me wonder if Epstein was just more of that. That there's no point in having this blackmail situation unless all the people involved can be murdered the first day that they resist it.
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So.
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All right.
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According to erasmus and bowl, 43% of voters believe that Pete Hegseth should be impeached over the narco boat attacks, 43%. Now, you know, these are the kinds of polls that I say to myself, I don't know what it's measuring exactly because it's not exactly measuring people's opinion. It's kind of, you know, what they want to happen.
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So it'd be one thing if the people were looking at some other planet and they were just analyzing, oh, and this other planet, 43% think this should happen. But if it's political as this is, it's purely political.
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All it really tells you is how many people are Democrats and how many, how many are Republican, with a little bit of adjustment for an independent who will fall one way or the other. Is it really telling you anything? Yeah, I don't think people's opinion.
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Well, politically it matters. So if you're following the politics of it, of course it matters. All right.
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How many of you are following the Candace Owens Turning Point USA drama? I've been trying not to. I've been trying not to.
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For all the usual reasons that the, the, the stories about individuals I find just less compelling because it doesn't really, you know, affect the world.
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But.
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It seems to me that Candace continues to make this so interesting that it's very hard to ignore. So I'm not really caught up on it all, but I'll give you a little bit of an update so see if I have this right. Is the story that Candace believes that some people who worked with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA were somehow complicit in his murder? Is that the accusation? So in the comments, tell me if I have that right, because that's sort of the starting point for this. And again, I don't have any sense. My, my instinct is that they did not because it just seems too wild. But, you know, we live in a wild world. I suppose it would be hard to, hard to rule out anything these days. Like, it seems like there's just always something going on.
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Bulger was transferred. All right, let's see. I got an answer to my question. He was transferred and murdered.
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And murdered, yeah. I just can't stop the comments from going by. It looks like he was transferred and then quickly murdered. I think that's what you told me that would make sense. All right, so the Turning Point usa, and I don't know if, I don't know if this story still assumes that some other country is involved or is Israel involved. I don't have any evidence to suggest that.
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But according to.
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Natalie Jean Beisner, who, I don't know who that is. But somebody had x noted that.
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That.
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Candace, she's, she's got a claim that she has in her possession.
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That she's in possession or people at Turning Point USA are in possession of text messages sent the day before Charlie died in which he allegedly wrote down to somebody and also to security guards that he thought that they were going to kill him tomorrow. And then that was the day that he was, he was murdered. Now, Natalie asked the following completely reasonable question. If it's true, the Turning Point USA has in their possession actual screenshots or something that would show that he knew he was going to be killed that day, don't you think we would have seen them by now? Don't you think somebody would have produced that screenshot if that were true? So I think that's what Natalie is pointing out, that if that were true, we would have seen it by now.
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Now, there's always possibility that there's some reason we wouldn't, but I don't know what that would be. And then Trump apparently got involved with this drama.
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And he didn't like the accusation that the Erica, the widow of Charlie Kirk, didn't like the idea that, you know, she was involved in anything sketchy. So he, I guess he likes her. Trump likes her.
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And what did.
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So Kantus is actually asking people who donated to Turning Point USA that they asked for a refund for their donations. Now, that's, that's a pretty serious allegation. So bad that you should ask for your money back. I don't know about that.
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And then what it was that Trump got involved in is that there was some accusation that there were four tax exempt organizations under TPUSA and that there was some allegation that they were under investigation. So if you were donating to an organization and you found out that there were four entities under their umbrella and that some or all of them were being investigated for criminal behavior, would you donate again? Probably wouldn't. So it's a pretty big deal whether that's true or false. And I guess Trump debunked it. So now the government has said, nope, none of the four tax exempt organizations are under investigation. So.
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I don't want to. He was beaten to death in his prison cell. This is whitey.
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I can never read the last sentence of your comments because they go by too fast and I don't have a way to stop them.
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All right. But you can read the comments yourself and you'll see the corrections on the Whitey Bulger. Bulger story.
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So.
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I don't believe that there's necessarily anything bad going on with Turning Point usa. But let me give you this context. When was the last time a large.
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Well funded organization was not corrupt?
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That's a tough question, isn't it? Because almost every time there's a story in the news and it's about, oh, there's this big well funded political organization, isn't the story always.
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That it was corrupt? Like every time. Now when I say every time, there does seem to be maybe an exception.
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And the, the exception would be if it's a conservative organization. Now I'm saying that with maybe a little wishful thinking because I don't know that that's true. But it seems to me that in the bubble that I live, the news bubble I'm in, I see left leaning organizations being corrupt essentially 100% of the time. But what percentage of the time are large, well funded, established conservative groups also corrupt? It seems like not as much. Right. In fact, I can't, I can't even think of one. But if you said, can you name some left leaning organizations that are corrupt, I mean, I'd be here for a while.
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So you would have to believe that Turning Point USA was somehow an exception to the rule and that it would be an exception that it wasn't corrupt because it seems like everything else has money and funding, seems like they're all corrupt. But there is no, I don't think there's a specific valid accusation about Turning Point usa. And it could be.
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That it just doesn't happen that much in conservative organizations. I hope that's the case, but I don't know. Fog of war. Yeah, there's probably a little of that going on.
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Well, Tucker Carlson, according to the vigilant Fox on X, has quote, made the Jeffrey Epstein death impossible to ignore again.
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So this is what Tucker believes. He was on some podcast, he said that they did it on purpose and he was murdered, clearly by another inmate. All right? And Tucker says, I've been a journalist my whole life. It was not a perfect, it was not a perfect storm of screw ups, because that's the official story. It was just this weird coincidence of screw ups. They never did the investigation into how this guy died. Is that true? They never investigated it. Maybe they didn't investigate it enough. I don't know that they never investigated it. Do you investigate things if you think you know exactly what happened?
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Maybe they didn't. Maybe his standard for how much is enough investigating was not met.
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Here's something I didn't know. According to Tucker, they Redressed him in clothes that he wasn't wearing when he died for the pictures in the hospital infirmary. Do you believe that they dressed him in clothes for the photographs after he was dead?
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Maybe. I mean, I don't know. Would that be a mistake? Would that be a crime if they did that? Well, it would certainly change how you felt about it.
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Tucker says he asked former Attorney General Bill Barr for the names of the inmates on Epstein's block, and Barr wouldn't give them to him. And I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that. Do you think that would be legal? Are you allowed to give the names of people and what block they're in? I feel like that would be dangerous. So I'm not so sure that Bill Barr had an option there. But.
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But Tucker says they're convicted felons, dude. This is not secret information or national security. Why can't you tell me that? All right, then Tucker says this is his view. They allowed him, Epstein, to be murdered in federal lockups. How could we continue to live in a country where a high profile inmate can be murdered in our prison system by someone who is powerful enough to do that?
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So that is the big question, isn't it? Who would be powerful enough to murder the most watched person in the entire world? And if they get him, and it looks like they did, don't know for sure, but it looks like they did, then how afraid would you be of crossing the same people? It'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it, if you knew that they could get to him. If they could get to Epstein, they could get to anybody.
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Well, speaking of Minnesota and Somalia.
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Right Angle News is reporting that there's this scam going on in Columbus, Ohio. So that this one's. This one's not Minnesota, this is Columbus, Ohio, that there's Somali families that own a restaurant and a grocery store right next door. Sometimes literally attached. And usually a daycare for home health business, too. The wives and kids get loaded up on EBT cards. That's food stamps or on a debit card paid for you by your taxes. But instead of going to Kroger or Walmart, they, quote, shop at their own family grocery store with those cards. All that food immediately walks 10ft into the restaurant kitchen and boom, you've got free inventory for the restaurant paid 100% by taxpayers. I got to tell you.
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You know, I certainly don't like the Somalians ripping off the taxpayers, especially me. But you have to. You have to kind of give them credit because they are some good Scammers, they got some clever stuff going on here. And the fact that it went as long as it did without being shut down is just amazing. Anyway, so the grocery store reports giant losses every year, which is a perfect tax write off. And so Uncle Sam gets screwed twice. All right? And then the. The same families often run the daycare and the home health companies that also pull in government cash. So they basically built a city block.
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Of scammers, and the scammers would, you know, be complementary to each other. I'm. That's some. That's some good Somalian.
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Crime there. Wait, these are Somalians, right? Or are they not? I hope I didn't. Yeah, it is Somali. Okay. I want to make sure I'm not blaming the wrong bunch of people.
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All right, well, Trump is becoming more and more uncensored. Every day he gets closer to the end of his second term. This is pretty uncensored. Trump said, I guess yesterday, quote, I love this Elon Omar, whatever the hell her name is, are. The first part is to imagine that he doesn't know her actual name.
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I love this Elon Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban. With the little turban.
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Can you imagine that your president actually said this in public? I love this Elon Omar, or whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing, but she's always complaining. We ought to get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in.
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Now, I don't know if there's any truth to the fact that she married your brother to help him get into the country or to get her into the country or somebody. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but.
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Does the news debunk it? I feel like I've been reading about the allegations of Ilan Omar and her brother and immigration. I've been reading about this for years now, and what I've never seen is the mainstream news debunk it. Has it been debunked? I kind of assumed it must have been debunked or there would have been some action taken by now, but maybe not. What do you think? Is that. Is that story real or is that just a hoax? Because that might be one of the, you know, the hoax bubbles that the conservatives are in. I don't know. I'm not going to automatically believe the brother, Somali brother part.
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But it is very dismissive to talk about her little turban.
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I don't know why that makes me Laugh. Her little turban.
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Why is it, why is it funnier when he calls it little?
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Does that make you think her brain is little or something with her little turban? Anyway.
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So now there's a new bombshell from Alpha News. I saw Eric Dougherty writing about this on X.
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That apparently Ramsey county gave $38.5 million $4 million to 213 NGOs. Now, kind of depends where the money came from, how you feel about that, but apparently the proposed budget for next year's budget. The proposed budget for next year, let me say that in English.
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Is that apparently they're being told that their, their property tax money will go to NGOs. Do you think that your property tax money should ever go to an NGO, especially 213 of them? And when you hear that there are 213 NGOs, does your brain go, oh, there must be 213 worthy things for funding. Do you or do you automatically say, wow? The fact that there are 213 NGOs pretty much guarantees that something suspicious is happening. Yeah, something suspicious is happening. And apparently the state is not auditing these NGOs receiving the money. Oh, surprise, surprise. So a huge amount of your tax money, at least if you were in this state, your Minnesota tax money will go to these 213. Hard to understand.
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Impossible to audit entities.
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You know what that is, right? That couldn't be more obviously corrupt. It couldn't be. That's as, that's as corrupt as you can make something look. Wow.
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I, I wish Minnesota well, but I don't know how you're going to unwind all of that. You know, once it gets to the point where the criminals are clearly have more control than the honest people and we're, we're definitely there in Minnesota. How do you ever fix it? Because even if you got rid of the people there, they would be replaced with other criminals because the criminal thing is totally working out. It's totally working out. Why would you change it?
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So you believe she married her brother?
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Why would you believe it that Omar married her brother? If you believe it because you saw a story in the news, is that credible?
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I'm going to say no. Might be true, but it's not credible. Just because it was in the news.
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Yeah. Anyway, Trump is funny when he talks about her. You know, there was a time when I would have agreed with even Trump's critics who said, you know, you really just shouldn't talk about people like that. It, it just gives them something to complain about and then it makes all of your supporters look like we're just as bad, but I'm completely over that. I'm totally over it. If he wants to talk that way, fine. If people don't want to, if they don't want to vote for him, fine. They have the option.
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But I do like him being funny. That part I'm unambiguously in favor of. Be funny. Well, economist Stephen Moore, Republican type, I think he's Republican, maybe he's independent. But he points out that an MRI can cost $600 at one hospital. In other words, the cost of getting an MRI could be 600 at one hospital, but 6,000 at another.
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And, and if you're the patient, you wouldn't know which one you went to. Now, I've had some MRIs. Number of MRIs this year, a few of them, and nobody ever told me what they cost because my insurance covered it.
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Do you think that if something is wildly different, prices wildly different, and the numbers are pretty big.
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Do you think that that lack of transparency is going to create a bunch of fraud? Of course it will. 100% chance. If you have wildly disparate pricing and you don't have any transparency and it doesn't look like there's any auditing, at least any important auditing, and you as the customer don't get to.
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Choose the MRI you're using most of the time. Of course it's corrupt. Of course the entire thing is a mess. So Stephen Moore, you are correct about that.
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And Stephen Moore suggests that the fix would be that if the patients are not told in advance what the cost of the MRI is, that the provider doesn't get paid.
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Well, good luck with that. I mean, they'd find a way to get paid anyway. People are too afraid of not paying bills. I don't think they'd want to be the ones who, you know, not every person is going to want to fight that battle. You know what I mean?
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Rand Paul has a suggestion for a Republican looking healthcare plan. He said, what if you could join Costco? He said this on a recent interview. What if you joined? Costco has 44 million members. Wow, 44 million members in Costco.
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In one country. Is that just America? I know 44 million seems like a lot.
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And they, and let's say the 44 million bought a group healthcare plan like Toyota or General Motors. They would be the largest collective entity in the country and they would drive prices down by sheer might. Do you believe that?
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Now that makes sense to me from an economic perspective that if you have more competition Prices should go down. If you add more transparency, prices should go down. If you've got one negotiator for a large group of people, price should go down. So it makes sense. But I'm a little bit skeptical that it could be that easy. Because here's what I say. The minute you did this, let's say tomorrow, you could snap your fingers and suddenly Costco was offering.
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Health care. Do you think that Costco alone could massively lower their prices and that the rest of the industry would be, you know, unhurt? I don't know. It feels to me like the current system, this will be hard to express, but it seems to me that the current terrible healthcare system is so entrenched that if you were to change any large part of it, even with the best intentions and even with the best philosophies and the best economic theories, that you're going to create some unintended problems. And I don't know what they would be. But does it not feel to you that it couldn't possibly be as easy as just changing the number of people who are in each organization? How in the world could that be enough?
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I mean, I can see that would make some difference, but we're talking about, you know, the Obamacare subsidies, you know, doubling your health care. There's nothing in that neighborhood. It's not like. It's not as if a Costco health care plan would lower your health care by, you know, 50%. I don't think that's going to happen. And if there were this, this big bunch of money that is just essentially sitting there waiting to be picked up, why wouldn't somebody have picked that up already?
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See, I. I feel like the industry is very corrupt and inefficient, but I don't think there's a whole bunch of. I don't think there's a whole bunch of money being made in health care that you could just cut your expenses in half and everybody would still get paid. I feel like people wouldn't get paid if you made that big of a difference in the pricing.
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So I'm no expert in this domain and nobody else is either, which I think is why nothing ever happens.
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Because you would have to know, you would have to know so much to make a good decision on any of this stuff.
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All right, so let's talk about Ukraine.
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So I've been watching with some amusement that the, the U. S. Plan for a peace with Ukraine started in this 28 items, and then we haven't seen any of the items. But then the reporting was, no, it's not 28. It might be 19 or 20. And then I say to myself, 19 or 20. But I keep what, I keep waiting for that 19 or 20 to collapse to maybe three. Because if you could get the most, the three most important things, whatever you thought they were, if you get the three most important things, you could probably work out the rest. But it doesn't work the other way. It doesn't work that. If you get these 17 least important things that, that will make it easy to do the three most important things. It doesn't work both ways. So here's my question. Can you identify three things that Ukraine could say yes to that maybe Russia would say yes to? And then that would be enough because it's the biggest three that, that would be enough to force the others down their throats. Maybe they want it to be forced down the throats. All right, so here are the three that I think it's starting to settle on.
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So the things they want are they. We definitely want a, an election in Ukraine, but Zelensky says yes, we'll definitely get a.
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You better catch up with the news.
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Did something happen in the news today?
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So somebody's yelling at me in all caps, I need to catch up with the news.
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Is there a big headline story happening right now?
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Tell me, is there something happening right now?
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All right, well, let me know if you see something.
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All right, you can send me a text if you have my, if you have my text.
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Give me a text and tell me if I missed something.
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All right. Could be just a troll, I don't know. But so on one hand.
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Was the Lenski needs to know is that Russia won't take over the rest of the country. Has to be some obviously a property deal, who gets what.
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And.
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Yeah, so those are the big things. It does seem like it's really down to real estate. And does Zelensky ever want to leave office?
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Idiocracy did it. Oh, add Sam's club.
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Yeah. All right.
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Speaking of military, I guess the US military now has a thousand mile drone boat for attacking other boats or ships, I guess. And it can go a thousand nautical miles, it can carry a thousand pound bomb payload and it can go up to 35 knots. Well, I hate to see that coming at me.
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It feels like every day there's a, there's a breakthrough in military drones. Yeah, we're. If we don't have a good military drone, fight war. I don't know. That's a lot of, a lot of work.
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Costco sells Auto and home. And it is cheaper. Yeah, but insurance.
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We'Ll see. Well, I'm not sure how much cheaper it would be. I would agree that it would have to be cheaper, but I don't know if we're talking 5% or 50%.
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It'd be lawyer free. I don't know if you want that.
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All right. I guess that's why they put the Costco's far away from each other. So you don't get all their samples and live on it.
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No, this is not the warm up. This is the actual show. This is not very good. All right. There's a new pill, according to no Ridge, that lowers your blood sugar and burns your fat without appetite loss or muscle loss. So does it seem to you like we went hundreds of years not having any good way to lose weight except for exercise and diet, and then suddenly there's a pill and then there's another pill and then there's another pill and then there's another pill and then there's pills that do it different ways. So we went from, well, there's no way you're going to lose weight with a pill. Wow. There sure are a lot of ways to lose weight with a pill.
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All right.
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I'm looking at your comments, all right. And you know, Trump, Trump was a little angry at Bondi because the Attorney General's not indicting anybody. Does it seem to you that Pam Bondi is stalling or does it seem to you that there's no good reason for why we haven't seen some of the bad guys of back from the Russia hoax era? Why have we not seen any of them get indicted? Is the problem that the person to indict is going to be Obama or is the problem, could it be that what Brennan was warning us about in that interview about the CIA and about.
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Blackmail, was Brennan warning people that, that they do have blackmail on anybody who would try to take down the ex CIA people? Because when Trump talks about, hey, we need to, you know, indict these ex people, some number of them are intelligence people. Right. And if it's true that the intelligence people use blackmail to stay in charge, it seems like he's warning them that they're definitely going to have some blackmail come out the minute they go after Brennan. Does it feel like that? So here's the thing I'd be watching for.
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I'm, I'm still going to presume that we don't see indictments for the biggest players. So I think we won't see an Obama.
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Susan Rice I don't even know if she's in. She's on the list. Brennan, Clapper. I don't think any of them will be indicted. And the reason is, it's what Brennan said, that they have blackmail on everybody important.
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So I suspect that there's no real way that we're ever going to see what Trump wants, which is the normal, you know, a normal Department of Justice process where they look at evidence and they indict people and then they go to trial. I don't think that's possible.
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I. I think that the only thing possible is that they might wave their hand at it and then just dismiss everything. I do not see that any of that can really happen in the real world. In a world where Epstein is killed in his jail cell and we act like we don't know anything about it in that world, I don't see Brennan going to jail. Do you?
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Elon Musk, also, at one of his recent events, said that the assassination of Charlie Kirk has made it even more impossible for people like him to go out in public. He says there are serious security issues. It's not that I don't want to. I simply can't now. Can't. Must mean that his security people say, you cannot do this. We're not going to let you walk out in this. This situation. So it looks like he's taken their advice.
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And he says that Charlie's assassination has reinforced the severity of the situation where life is. Is on hardcore mode. You can make one mistake and you're dead. It only takes one mistake. So imagine being Elon Musk and you go from, hey, I'm just a rich guy and everybody likes me. I've got some security issues, but everybody rich does to, I can't go out.
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I can't go out because I might get murdered. Now.
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I saw Sean Davis from the Federal Federalist had a comment about this on X, and he said, this is the. This is only the case, meaning there's this big security problem. He said, this is only the case for people on the right. No left wing podcaster, politician or journalist have to look around every corner or hire private security everywhere they go. Only conservatives are forced to live this way. Is that true?
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Is that an exaggeration? Or are we just in a bubble? Because.
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I could certainly name several conservative people who can't go outside without security, right? The Daily Wire guys. And.
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I don't know. I don't know if any of the federalists have that problem, but, you know, obviously Elon Musk has that problem. Charlie Kirk had that problem. So are we at a point where it's true that conservatives can't go outside, but liberals can? That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Surely there have to be some liberals who need security. If you were, let's say.
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That Mark Benioff, that of Salesforce, you don't think he has security? No, I don't know, but I would guess he does. Now, is that because he's just a rich guy and CEOs always need security? I mean, it might be that. Or are there specifically death threats the people on the left are getting? I don't know. Do you know?
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Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, Bam. Bondi is, I think, is in a tough spot. I believe that she doesn't have the option of going after the people that Trump wants her to go after because I think that it would be dangerous and that ultimately they would get released or pardoned or something. So it could be that the option of justice is just not possible and it wouldn't matter if Trey Gowdy was replacing Pam Bondi or not. But I did note that trade the Trey Gowdy is a golf partner of Trump. And it feels to me like the very best people that Trump could have in his cabinet or any of his appointees would be somebody who can golf with them. Because if you golf with somebody, you get to know them pretty well and you know, you, you'd spend a lot of time with them. I, I kind of like the idea of Trump having golf partners who are also very capable. I mean, Trey Gowdy would be super capable.
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Feels like that would be a stronger team if he golf with them.
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All right. Wealthy people are at the mercy of their security personnel.
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Yeah, that's true.
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All right.
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What else we got?
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So I guess there was a journalist who went to a LA City council recently, Wall Street Apes is reporting on this. And he said at the public hearing, he says, so far we have spent $450 million to permanently house 1144 people. Does that sound like we did a good job? $450 million and it housed 1100 people. That doesn't sound good. That sounds sort of the way we do bullet trains and everything else. And he said that money is going somewhere. It's not like that money is falling into the abyss. That money ends up being somebody's profit. The non profit industrial complex, who's making a ton of money of this. And most of those people are politically connected to Hugo and Nithya and Karen Bass. I don't know Karen Bass is the mayor, but I don't know the others, of course. And actually, all of you people.
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He talked about how in his area in la, not a single street light works. Not a single street light. Well, I got a feeling if you fix the street lights in those neighborhoods, somebody would shoot it out in about a minute. So I'm not sure if fixing it is even an option.
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All right, people.
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I'm gonna. I'm gonna end it here. I'm gonna talk to my beloved members of Locals. So, beloveds coming at you privately in 30 seconds. The rest of you, thanks for joining. We will see you later.
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In 30 seconds, we'll be private.