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ey wouldn't have better drones, would they? I mean I don't think so. 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 tw…

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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 no way to know but think about it. There's a reason they put that gun one in there, right?

Now you could argue that the gun thing is always going to be special. That's a special case. But if you're going to be defending yourself I'd rather have a 3D printer than a gun if you had a 3D printer. And I'm saying high-end. So really we're still talking about the future. In the future you'll be able to print a proper gun. You can already do it but I'm talking about like a real proper gun, you know. You could make a gun that would kill somebody but I mean like a real weapon like a serious weapon. Not sort of a toy.

Yeah I feel as if the stuff that the 3D printers can make at the moment are more of a novelty than an actual weapon. You know they fire sure but it's more like killing somebody in a special case. It's not really a weapon weapon. So I would expect that 3D printers will be illegal for citizens to own if they are above a certain level.

Let me ask you this. Would it be legal for a citizen to own a printing press capable of making U.S. currency that is indistinguishable from the real thing? Would that be legal? I'm assuming no. Somebody says yes that would be legal. Now is it because the paper is the real trick so they can just control how you make the paper or something? Yeah you need the right paper exactly. But couldn't you also bleach existing currency? Or did they take that away because it used to be used to bleach an old like a dollar bill and then turn it into a 20 or something? Yeah.

All right. So yeah I would expect 3D printers will be illegal at the high end someday. And you wonder how could they possibly control that and I'm thinking they'll probably control it in much the way that they control copyright. And so which means that they would do it imprecisely. You know you could still get away with it but it might not be worth the risk.

All right. Ex-president George W. Bush was giving a speech and he said this tragically. He said quote, "The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean Ukraine." Ukraine. So yes there was a leader once who authorized a

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wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. But who was that? Who was that? Oh yeah, George W. Bush. Well there's more drama coming out of the Amber Heard trial. The Johnny Depp. According to witnesses, especially Amber Heard's sister — Heard too? No, Amber's sister. We don't have any reason to dislike her but she was the most direct witness to say that she observed Johnny Depp hitting his fa…

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