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iece. So do you know that famous mental experiment where you take a penny and put it on a checkerboard in the corner and then you say, okay, I'll double the penny in each subsequent box. So the second one is two cents and then four cents, eight cents, 16. And your common sense says, wow, by the time this keeps doubling all the way around the checkerboard, that one cent could turn into thousands o…
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So I've got a feeling that we'll find out about a giant secret drone making facility someday.
Speaking of stuff like that, so Biden — I thought I saw a headline that said Biden is using that wartime production act to make baby formula, to which I say, wasn't that like, you know, didn't Joel Pollak suggest that like a week or two ago? I feel like that's an idea that under the Trump administration would have been a 24-hour turnaround. Am I wrong? Under the Trump administration, I actually watched this in person. I watched an idea go from, hey this is a good idea, to actually an executive order in like maybe 48 hours. I've actually seen it done under Trump.
And how long have we known this baby formula thing was going to be a problem? I mean Biden has yet another thing to explain. I mean there might be some logical reason or something but this could not look worse. I've never seen an administration fail this hard. Have you? In your memory, have you ever seen an administration fail this hard? I guess the left would have said it was Trump. But even the leftists, I can tell you that as of yesterday, yesterday I talked to a lifelong Democrat who just said he's voting all Republican from now on. Lifelong Democrat. Yep. Voting Republican from now on. And I'm not going to tell you what demographic he was but it wasn't the one you expect. I'll just say that it wasn't the one you expect.
So I don't know what's going to happen in the next elections but I cannot imagine — oh and right, did I talk about this? That I think I said yesterday that Elon Musk said he would vote Republican from now on because the Democrats have become the party of division and hate or something. Oh my god that is quite a thing to say. You know which is why he's Elon Musk and you're not. Because is he the best tweeter now? If Trump were still tweeting I'd say you know they're basically only two people in that stratosphere. But now that Trump is off I think Musk is the top tweeter by far. Somebody says yeah I think by far.
Now how many of you remember that Elon Musk came out of the PayPal, that was an original startup that he was on there with several people. And I wonder if they were to have a PayPal reunion now — yeah Peter Thiel is there — I wonder if they were to have a reunion now that they would have something to talk about politically. That would be pretty interesting.
All right. Gas prices. I keep hearing people say, my god the gas prices are up to over four dollars now, to which I say can I get some of that four dollar gas? Will somebody sell me some four dollar gas? Because our gas is way over six dollars for premium. So when I fill up it's over six dollars a gallon now. I mean not that you're feeling sorry for me but just as a marker of the times. And all of this is self-inflicted by Democrats, is it not? It's completely self-inflicted. All predictable. All completely known that if you do this you're going to get this. And did they not slow walk us right into the situation? Because it looks like it. It looks like they slow walked us with intention into shortages.
Now I hear people say some people want the shortages and you know it's part of their radical agenda. I've never heard from anybody like that so I'm a little skeptical anybody really believes that but who knows.
All right. So it's all-time new high again. Gas. How do Democrats get elected under these conditions? I don't know.
Here's my provocative thought for the day. If the founders of this country, the ones who put together the original Consti
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tution, if they knew that 3D printers were coming, would they have given us a constitutional right to own them like guns? What do you think? If the founders knew that 3D printers were coming would they have put like the Second Amendment, would they put an amendment in there to say that citizens can own them and that the government cannot monopolize them? I feel like they would have. I mean there's…
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