ed in the Washington Post which is the furthest thing from a free speech entity which everybody assumes is just part of the government's organ of control, they started it. You think that's a coincidence? Nope. Nope.

All right so just be aware that free speech probably has always been an illusion. There's definitely more of it you can have. You know there's definitely a way to get more of it and we should be trying to do that. But you have to understand that no country could survive free speech. It would be too chaotic. There has to be something like a common narrative to keep a country together. And I hate it. I hate that that's true but I've never seen the alternative.

All right there are strong hints that there was a third possible assassination attempt. So Axios is reporting that Trump said he had been briefed on efforts by Iran to assassinate him and that he believes Iran will try again. Now that's a little bit cryptic because try again could mean that there's some third or other attempt outside the two known assassination attempts but it also could, and this is pure speculation, suggest that the first or maybe even the second one had some Iranian involvement. So we don't know for sure if this is really a third attempt or if it's more information about one of the first two.

But here's what Trump says about that. He said big threats on my life by Iran. The entire US military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn't work out but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone. I'm surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before. And he thanked Congress for making all that available funding wise. I feel like he's sending a message when he's talking about how the weaponry to protect him. I think he's just trying to scare the next would-be assassin into thinking there's no way it's going to work. Because one of the problems is that the first two attempts would suggest to some third future hypothetical attacker that getting a shot at him wouldn't be that hard. So it's very important for Trump to persuade and say things have changed and while it might have been a little too easy to get a shot at me you're dead if you try it now. Now is he right? Well I hope so. I hope that his defenses are beefed up enough that anybody would be dead. So we hope so.

Also from Axios they talked about Iran's multi-pronged approach meaning that Iran is trying to hurt the United States with as many different ways to poke us as they can in different domains. And there was a summer cyber attack apparently. And there was anyway I don't know how Iran's going to beat us at this game but they're trying.

Trump had some interesting things to say. He was talking about how if we use our energy assets properly, in other words we exploit our own energy resources and we make energy just our sort of our biggest thing in America, that it will be a renaissance. It will be a golden period. He said I wish he'd said golden age but golden period is close enough. You know I've said that maybe his first term will seem like a golden age to us in retrospect but I do feel like maybe the pandemic could have postponed the golden age. Now as you know I don't believe we can have a golden age or even survive unless we figure out what to do about national debt. But the way Trump talks about it he makes it very clear that he understands not just recently but for a while now. He makes it really clear that he understands.

I'm seeing in the comments people suggesting that if Iran is trying to kill Trump that Iran has some kind of Obama connection. Do you buy that? I know that people think Obama was too friendly to Iran but do you think he could possibly be involved in an assassination attempt? I think that would be too dangerous so my guess is no. Even if he wanted to I can't imagine that. Seems like too big a risk.

Anyway so Trump's talking about the golden age and here's my take on that. Energy has always been the number one thing that drove an economy. So at least in our modern age whoever had the most energy did the best. Now it doesn't mean they did the best in terms of colonizing or conquering the world because not everybody was doing that but Saudi Arabia, lot of energy, doing great. Other countries in the Middle East they had a lot of energy, doing great. Russia is only surviving because of their energy stuff. China's biggest need, energy, so they're building tons of plants. Now that was before Bitcoin and before AI. If you add AI to what the civilization is going to need we are talking about 10 times more energy needed. 10 times. We're not even close. So there's going to be an energy boom of all energy booms. So not only if you had enough energy could you make more Bitcoins. If you had your own nuclear power plant you could maybe pump out some Bitcoins. You need a data center too. But given the massive, massive amount of energy that we're going to need in the pretty near future I'm going to take the following stand that energy equals success. Energy equals dollars. Energy equals defense. Energy equals survival. Energy is the whole play.

One of the things I continuously appreciate about Trump is he can take a complicated situation and boil it down to something that the public can understand and then approve of him acting on. So that's what the wall was. When he would say the wall his critics would say you simpleton that's such a small part of the bigger question. And it was. But if he could get you excited about the wall he was at least getting you in the right domain of worrying about the things that are most important. So directionally that's what Trump does best. He's directionally correct pretty much all the time. And I would say he is more than directionally correct on energy. That if we said to ourselves all right America energy equals money. If we get our energy cost down all of your products will be less expensive. If we get our energy prices down we'll have the greatest robotic revolution ever. If we get our energy plentiful and also down, biggest AI and we'll rule the world with AI before other people can get there. It's down to one variable people. It's one variable. Two if you count the border. There are two things we have to get right. Make sure that we don't have too much uncontrolled immigration because there's some level that destroys the country no doubt about it and we're ge