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never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right I'll play ball a little bit. Then the CIA contacts you and says you know you've heard a story that's kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot if you kind of didn't tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says oh no we are a news organization that is…

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d had its problems because the tsunami hit their backup generators right? It was pretty dumb to put the backup generators where a tsunami could potentially hit them. So it was a design problem too but and that I think that was a generation two that wasn't even a Gen 3. So Gen 4 basically takes the risk out of nuclear power enough. Right there's nothing that's zero risk but it basically eliminates it.

Then you're going to say but what about the waste? Gen 4 actually uses waste for fuel. Not all of it so there's still some waste and I don't know about this design. Just some designs do. But they've learned to just store it in big protected casks on site. Don't have to ship it anywhere. Everybody's happy. So that's a big deal.

So we need Trump to open up every form of energy and go crazy on it. Democrats can't compete with that. He has to make the case that we're all dead if we don't 100x our energy and I think that's true by the way. I think we're in big trouble if we don't 100x our energy.

President Biden said that, well I don't know if he knows he said it but in a post on X somebody posting for him said my administration has seized more fentanyl at our border in the last two years than in the prior five years combined. All right people you can all see the gears of the machine. Is that a success that he seized more fentanyl than the last five years? No that's a giant failure. It means that so much fentanyl is coming across that even with the same staff you're catching twice as much. Yeah so Sticks and Hammer pointed that out and I think we can all see the gears of the machine. Just purely a lie. This is just a misleading lie about their success and it's obvious. You don't have to be an expert. You can just look at this and go oh seizing more drugs is bad news not good news. It means more is coming in so it's easier to catch more. That's it. That's the whole story.

And here's one that will surprise you but not surprise you. Did you know that the founder of the Patriot Front, that group that looks to us like feds and they march around with their masks and their matching outfits and they just sort of appear now and then and all of us think that they're feds, well apparently the group's founder Thomas Rousseau also participated in the famous Tiki March in Charlottesville. The tiki torch march. Do you know what I've told you about the Charlottesville tiki torch march? Definitely a Fed operation. I don't believe for a minute that it was organized only by racists. Definitely they're racists but if the feds organize something they make sure that the racists are in the front of the operation but maybe the real organization comes from behind the scenes. So it looks like this guy has been important in two different things that in my opinion look like Fed operations. So is he a Fed? No way to know but the gears of the machine seem to be somewhat obvious.

Okay it gets better. So the FBI declassified 950 pages on their research into this Patriot group the Patriot Front and let's see if this surprises you. So we all suspect that it's a Fed operation but then the FBI studies them. They've got 950 pages. How much do you think is redacted? You've all seen the gears of the machine now. Finish the story. What percentage of it do you think was redacted? A lot. How about nearly every page is fully redacted. Nearly every page is fully redacted. And we suspected that the real problem is it's a bunch of feds. Yep anyway so that's probably exactly what you think it is.

Tucker Carlson said some provocative things. He said he thinks that Bitcoin was created by the CIA and that the Satoshi rumor is just a CIA rumor. So you don't know the CIA created it. Do you believe that? If the CIA created Bitcoin why would they do it? Would it be because they have some secret way of monitoring your transactions and they knew that all the bad guys would use it and then they would have a hook on all the bad guys? I don't know but according to Tucker he thinks the Signal app was also created by the CIA. Now again these are his accusations. I don't have any independent but he but I think he's treating these like they're both obvious. As in if you can see the gears of the machine you don't have to wonder who made Bitcoin and if you can see the gears of the machine you don't have to wonder who's creating encrypted apps for bad people to message. It's probably exactly what you think. It's the people who knew that these would exist invented i

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t first so that they could spy on everybody. Now I don't want to say that these are true accusations especially against Signal because it's a real company. I don't have any evidence but Tucker's been pretty close to the CIA world. He knows more than you do about what is normal and typical and expected. And while I don't have any proof that Bitcoin was created by the CIA or that the Signal app was…

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