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oking at or whether it's been edited, whether it's AI. You can't tell. But my best guess is that there's a little bit to it, but the rest might be a mass hysteria. Because then people say, but my cat's missing for two hours. They got my cat. And then they complain about the cat and you hear about it, but they don't tell you later the cat came home in two hours. I think it might be that. But again…

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day are dying from fentanyl, but that's the cost of having this control, and that's worth it.

I feel like that would explain everything, and it would be consistent with all observations. It's consistent with human behavior. It's consistent with incentives, and it's consistent with history. It might not be true, but it's the only thing that fits the observations. Because if you're telling me that the United States really, really wants to fight this fentanyl and the border is kind of porous, that's no. Sorry. If we're not physically attacking the source of the fentanyl, which we're not going to do by the way, even if Trump wins, there won't be any bombing of the cartels. I think there's no chance of it because I think the people doing the bombing will say no. They'll say you can order us, but we're literally not going to go. Why? Because there's a dark part of the government that has a lot of control over things who would say maybe don't.

I do believe that it's possible Trump does not get the talk. And the reason is if Trump got the talk, he might tell you all. All right, here's the deal. I'm just going to be honest with you. We can't attack them because we're working with the cartels. You know, that would be the nightmare scenario for any alleged deep state hypothetical group that's really controlling things behind the curtain. So and we've seen, you know, that the generals, etc., suggest that Trump should not be told the full truth that the intelligence people know. So it w

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ould completely explain a lot of things if nobody told Trump, which is why he's saying things like we'll bomb the cartels, which will never happen. That would explain everything, wouldn't it? And Mike Benz, you know, is let's say compatible with the idea that we have some cartel-related dealings with the government south of us. The details could be wildly different than what I'm speculating, but…

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