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t? Not in the government. Jerry Nadler. Jerry Nadler's on that team trying to push. I mean, there's some others as well. But I'm genuinely curious about that guy. Does he even wake up in the morning and try to do the job of the people's work? Like I don't even know what's going on with him, because he doesn't even seem slightly interested in the well-being of the country. You know, you could defe…

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g. I'm saying he acts like somebody who's not even trying to be on the side of the Democrats or anybody. Just anybody. He looks like he's on China's side just trying to screw everything over a little bit. All right. Well, it just looks like that anyway.

I saw a tweet by Zion Lights. That's her name, Zion Lights. And she said, oh hold on, I pasted the wrong thing in there, but I remember what it was. So if you look at the UAE, the country UAE, yeah, apparently they ramped up their nuclear energy program really fast. Just a few years. And in just a few years their nuclear energy production has surpassed other European countries doing green energy for decades and decades. And so the argument is that if the UAE can rapidly and apparently economically ramp up a nuclear power industry, we should be able to do it too.

And I think the key is that we always look at how it was done in the past and that was done wrong. But I think if you stick with a design that's proven, and you know, let's say pick a design that France has been using for 20 years, right? You don't have to wonder too much if it works. It's the one that's been working for 20 years. So it looks like that's the secret. You have to, you know, it might help to have a dictator-ish leader so you can get rid of a lot of red tape. So I think if you could get rid of our red tape, standardize on some known designs that work, should be fairly quick. I mean, there's no reason that a strong president who really cared about nuclear energy, there's no reason that that strong president couldn't just make this work. You know, just sort of force it through.

But I don't see that energy from Trump. I never saw him being pro-nuclear except throwing it in a speech or two. And certainly don't see it with Biden. So I don't know what president it would take to push nuclear energy harder. But we don't have, we don't have the, at least the top two candidates at the moment, polling-wise, don't seem to be the right ones. Neither of them are the right ones for nuclear energy. On the other hand, I would say that both the Energy Department under Trump as well as under Biden seems to be very activist and doing the right things to spur nuclear energy growth. So I think the Department of Energy seems like it's been on point through two different administrations. But somehow without the support of the top. I don't know what that's all about.

All right. Let's talk about cocaine in the White House. You saw the news. Cocaine was discovered in the White House. And let me tell you the order of how the news broke. It went like this. Cocaine has been found in the library of the White House. Step two, social media reports that everybody knows there are security cameras in the library. All right. Here's the two first part. Cocaine was found in the library. Security cameras should tell us for sure who is using it. Point three. Oh, it totally wasn't in the library. It was in a working area. A working area. A working area. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say I'll bet there are no security cameras in the working area. Just a guess. I'll bet there are no cameras in the working area. Or could that be where the cameras don't work? Oh. And would it be possible that whoever looks at the cameras, if there is anybody doing it, they fell asleep? Probably fell asleep. Does any of this sound familiar now?

My own opinion is that the cocaine did not belong to Hunter, right? Had it been a laptop, I'd say Hunter. But all evidence suggests that Hunter Biden has never left a house that still had cocaine in it. Anybody? Anybody? Never left the house that still had cocaine in it.

All right. Well, that's all I got for you there. Yeah, I'm sure it was Dr. Jill's been dipping in.

So let me ask you this question. Do you think that authorities don't know who it belongs to? You think they don't know? It was in a baggie. Do you think that whoever handled the bag used a glove? You know, you don't think there are fingerprints all over that baggie? You don't think every staffer in the White House has been fingerprinted? How many people would be able to use a workspace in the White House, just have access to it, who had not been fingerprinted? Anybody? About zero. I think the answer is zero. So they got the bag. They've got the fingerprints. They know exactly who it belongs to.

Have you heard the news yet? Oh, interesting. It's not in the news, is it? How long does it take to get a fingerprint? Weeks? Ten minutes. About 10 minutes, right? It's about 10 minutes. And once you've

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got your fingerprint, you can tell us if that fingerprint belongs to Hunter Biden or not. And if it's somebody else, you could tell us that too. Do you think you're going to hear that? Do you think you're going to see the videotape of the crime? No, no, no, no, no, no. You're not. Do you think this story favors Trump? Yeah. Yep. Yes it does. Now let me be clear. I assume that every administratio…

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