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lways bothers me, right? Because obviously a lot of people contributed to building it. The Chinese slaves on the railroad and the black slaves. So a lot of people built America. But you know what else made America? It wasn't the building. That's the part we focus on. You know, the part where the country is founded and then from the founding there's all these great things that great people did to m…

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r seasteading. You got all the fresh water you need with that new technology. I imagine waste could be handled in a good way or a bad way because you're in the ocean. It looks like your food would mostly be right there in the ocean, wouldn't it? Don't you think you'd be able to fish yourself up plenty of protein? And you could probably do some vegetables and stuff that you could grow on there. I think we're at a point, yeah, Kevin Costner was not wrong. I think we're at a point where building your own nation is going to be completely practical. The only thing you'd have to work out is defense.

All right, I've been asked a lot about Rob Reiner, who is often active on X and old Twitter. And he would be very anti-Republican, anti-Trump. And he's doing a series of podcasts on who killed JFK, the JFK assassination. Now the reason that people are curious and say, Scott, what do you think about this, is because smart people believe that Rob Reiner has a CIA connection and that his political activism might be more related to our intelligence agencies than just his pure singular opinion. Now I don't know that. No way to prove it. But we do know that Rob Reiner has lots of CIA friends because he just said it yesterday. I just watched a video where he was describing who was he talking to. I forget. He was talking to one of the podcasts and he actually said he knows a lot of CIA people. And I think Mike Benz also found that he heads an o

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rganization that has a number of past CIA leaders. You know, I think Clapper is actually in the organization that Rob Reiner organizes. So we know he has personal connections in the intel world. And we know that he's blaming the CIA for the murder of JFK along with the mafia. So his take is that it's a little more complicated than the normal way the story is told, but that basically there were el…

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