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mala Harris because you got to hit the target. And the target is diversity not country runs better not company makes more money. All right well I don't think my first take is very good but I think you could come up with a better list of things. I would add the three Democrat primaries are rigged. I would add the massive brainwashing operation that tries to be news. Do you think democracy is about…

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t are deadly coming at us from the air. You got to get ready for it. It's going to take a while to get ready. So you got to future proof the country in that one way.

All right. Christopher Wray. You've heard about some of this. So he testified to Congress and here are some of the things we learned. That the shooter had Googled how far away was Oswald from Kennedy. Probably trying to see if he's going to get off a good shot or not. There are suggestions that the FBI has not gotten into all of the accounts that Crooks had. They're doing some legal things to get access to them but he had some other devices and maybe some other gaming platforms. They're not entirely sure. There was one report that he might have had an account on the Gab social media but I don't believe that yet. So I would put a pin in that one and wait to see if that's confirmed. No evidence of accomplice or co-conspirators. He was described as a loner. His AR style rifle had a collapsible stock which answers one of my big questions. So he must have had it in his backpack at one point. He had a backpack so that would explain why he wasn't spotted so easily with a rifle. It was folded up. Wray confirmed that Crooks fired approximately eight times. They only have approximate. That's interesting. Before being killed. So that would be nine shots or would it be 10 because I think one of the snipers missed him once. So we're a little uncertain how many bullets were flying around. They confirmed that Crooks bought a five foot ladder but they didn't find it which means he didn't bring it to the scene. Which would fit with the fact that he climbed up some of the AC stuff to get on the roof. So he didn't need the ladder and he may have figured that out after he bought it. Let's see he flew his drone around a few hours before. We heard that. He had three relatively crude explosive devices that didn't look like they were active with transmitters. And Mike Benz reminds us that a tell for FBI being involved meaning working a source to radicalize him so that they can capture him later after he gets radicalized. Apparently Mike Benz says that teaching a loner to make crude bombs is a really classic signal that the FBI was behind the whole thing or at least behind weaponizing them. Now is that enough of evidence to say my God the FBI was behind it? No. But I would agree with Mike Benz based on his examples that it's a real strong signal that somebody was behind him. Now who I don't know but you could certainly imagine it was somebody who had FBI like training. You know not necessarily the FBI but it could be somebody who came from that world or knew that world or was an anti-Trumper and thought he'd take. It's possible there is one person somewhere in the world who activated and brainwashed this one loner and is actually the assassin. So we know the shooter but we don't know the assassin because it seems likely somebody was running him. Do you feel that the idea that he had so little social media presence and yet as a loner he pulled this thing off? It doesn't really track. It tracks like he was impressing somebody. As in somebody became important to him and he needed to impress them. That's what it looks like. So it looks like he was trained and maybe he wanted to impress somebody. I do wonder if he thought he was going to get away with it. There were at least two instances according to Director Wray where FBI officials expressed disappointment that Trump survived the assassination attempt. And at least one of them is you know action is being taken. I assume the other one as well. But I don't know how to judge that except that people are terrible. We know the FBI had some people who hate Trump. We know that they had people who liked him. And we know that people say terrible things after situations like this. So you know I'm not sure how much to weight that. Not too much.

All right so the Congress the House has authorized a task force to look into the attempted assassination and it's going to be bipartisan and it will not include that Benny Thompson guy that the Republicans wanted to make sure he wasn't on there. But he wasn't even interested anyway. Does it bother you that Congress has only found unity over one thing ever and that unity was to protect themselves? Literally to protect themselves because the Secret Service is part of their protection as well. So I'm kind of disgusted by the unity. Like as much as you hate the disunity to see that the only time they come together really is when it's about their own safety. That's a real bad look. Even though I agree it should be a bipartisan investigation but I also don't believe it'll be real. I don't think they'll investigate anything because they can only investigate what the FBI tells them. And if the FBI doesn't tell them more than they want to tell them well what kind of investigation is that?

There's a study that says nearly 4 in 10 US adults worry about their family income not being enough to meet expenses according to CNN poll. And that's up from 28 percent in 2021. Similar to the numbers seen during the Great Depression. We might need to plan to make food available. I hope the government has some kind of a plan for literal starvation because I don't know how close we are to the falling over ledge. But between the national debt and the affordability problem of just basics I think that one of the things that might happen is people just stop paying mortgage and rent. Just stop. And if some people do it then there's a legal process to remediate. So you know you go through the process and maybe the police come to your house and kick you out or something. But if you have four in 10 who can't meet their basic bills I think they're going to stop paying mortgage and they're going to stop paying rent. And if so many people do it at the same time there won't be anything you can do. If you're a landlord you'll have no recourse. It'll be it. So my biggest worry is that the people who can't afford things will organize and they'll say if you own this home or you're a bank that has the mortgage you're rich. I can't afford to eat so I'm going to steal from you rich people the way I can steal from rich people which is not paying the rent. Now if you happen to be struggling yourself and your only income was that rental unit you had you're going to be poor too and you're going to not pay your mortgage and you're not going to pay your loans. So I feel like there's a massive debt walkaway or bill payi

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ng walkaway that's coming because otherwise people won't be able to eat. They won't be able to pay their health care. So I'm a little bit worried. But on the good side the economy grew at reportedly 2.8 percent which was way faster than expected like twice as fast as expected and would be in the neighborhood of a good, that would be very solid if that kept up. But does anybody think that that's no…

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