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to give it for a variety of different reasons I can't explain. NASA canceled a space walk because one of the spacesuits was leaking water. Well I'm no astronaut but I can tell you if I ever put on a spacesuit in space and I was about to go outside my capsule I'm pretty sure my spacesuit would be leaking water too if you know what I mean. Yeah that's all I had for that. So Congress is contemplati…

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m of poison. There you go. Alcohol is poison.

So I guess the Supreme Court is delaying into July some of its big decisions. Cowards. You cowards. I don't know why they're delaying it. Maybe it's just more work than usual but some of the big stuff we'll still have to wait for.

Meanwhile the big story today is Julian Assange is free. You can understand why the CIA wanted to kill him and Mike Pence still thinks he should be in jail. And I think there's this report that Hillary wanted to end him. He once said in public the goal is to have endless wars not a successful war. Sort of famous for saying that. So he's he did a plea deal I guess. He's got some health issues that may have played into his willingness to do a plea deal but he'll end up back in Australia and he'll be free in Australia after the plea deal is completed.

Now this raises many questions. Number one did he give out any secret information in return for this leniency? Is that what happened? Is there more to this deal than the public knows? For example maybe they just needed, maybe the bad guys just needed to know who his source was. Maybe he gave it up. Maybe the source died and so he felt he could give it up. So we don't know what's happening right. I doubt he would just give up a source because he went to jail for a long time to not do stuff like that. So I'm going to go with probably Assange did not make a deal that you wouldn't be happy with. Probably not. Don't know for sure.

But the other idea is that the only reason it's happening now is to take it off the table before the election because Trump was definitely going to pardon him or whatever the term is and that would have given the libertarians a strong reason to vote for Trump if they had been on the fence. So this takes away that strong reason. They still have Ross Ulbricht and they may feel the same about him. So if he gets pardoned before the election then it's just political. Yeah that would be a little bit on the nose.

The other thing I worry about is that it's really a plan to kill him because once he's a free-range chicken it's going to be a lot easier to get to him and arrange an accident. So I'm super concerned that an accident will happen to him in the next 18 months. That seems kind of dangerous. But he's already flown out. I think they put him on a Boeing flight. Oh God no. I'm just making that up. It wasn't a Boeing but it would be funny if it were. And I guess he had to spend half a million dollars just for the private flight because there was some reason he couldn't take a commercial flight. I don't know. Had to go to some weird island for reasons that are too boring to talk about.

Anyway so on the lawfare of Trump you've got Judge Cannon and so she's doing a bunch of rulings and the Democrats are mad because she's taking too long and she seems to be very deliberate and she's ruling both for and against the Trump defense. So I think the Democrats just they're just not happy when things are going the way th

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ey're supposed to go. They just want Trump punished and they don't care anything about the law I think is the bottom line. But anyway I don't care about the details of that. If you were to ask your Amazon digital device whose name I won't say because it will trigger all your devices at home, if you ask it who is the most powerful doctor in the world it says Bill Gates. That's right it says Bill G…

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