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ime. And one of them, remember what I always told you was our big advantage, the big advantage in America that I don't think anybody can match, is we will can anything that needs to get canned and we will do it brutally. We'll do it quickly and we'll never look back if it needs to get shitcanned. Ask an American. We don't save things because they're old and special. We don't do it because that's t…

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t to the last dying breath. Trump. He's not going to take any from countries he doesn't need to take from. Trump. He's going to do what's good for America first. Trump. He's going to negotiate hard. Trump. And if he needs to bend a rule, if he needs to push somebody too hard, if he needs to threaten, if he needs to violate a few norms, Trump. It's so powerful the persuasive brand that he's created just made Mexico crumble up into a ball and surrender. I mean that's what it looks like. It looks like the most amazing, this is probably the most amazing bit of, what would you call it? There's some fancy word for that but this is the most incredible thing you'll ever see in your life. He may have completely solved Mexico weeks before he's in office. This is real. This is now.

Do Canada. Rand Paul is talking about the Denver mayor who was saying he might refuse to cooperate with authorities who tried to deport any people in Denver. I heard maybe he softened on that but if he doesn't soften on it or any other mayor tries to prevent the federal government from doing its job, Senator Paul points out that that could be taken to the Supreme Court and you could actually have the mayor removed from office for violating what the federal government wants to do or needs to do to protect the country. So that's Article 4 of Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. They could be removed from the office under the 14th Amendment. How about that? That's pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or two get removed by that. You know, just to basically oil the weapon. You know if it's something that you're going to use more than once, well let's remove a mayor. One mayor, it's not going to hurt anything. Just get rid of one mayor and then the other mayors are going to say, oh I'm stealing a lot of money in my job. I'd like to keep it.

Here's something that I'm going to tie into the current headlines even though it's the oldest story in the world. Have you heard of an ancient site called Göbekli Tepe? And if you have, if you're a nerd like me and you like watching these ancient pyramid stories and stuff like that, there's a set of ruins that don't make sense with our understanding of history. Meaning that we think we have this good understanding of when humans developed certain capabilities. And one of those capabilities is can you build an impressive structure with giant stones that you've carved and transported and fit together, you know, pyramid style. But it turns out that Göbekli Tepe is way older than what we believe as a time when humans could do this sort of thing. Which would mean we have some fundamental misunderstanding about something from way, way back. We don't know what it is yet but of course some people speculate. And there are three of these actually. There's another one, Gunung Padang, and there's also the hidden chamber within the Great Pyramid. And I don't know how that fits in but there was some expert on Joe Rogan's podcast recently talking about what a mystery these are.

Now let's tie that into something else. You know the story about the UAPs which we used to call UFOs because we used to think they were coming from outer space. And then the narrative started to turn a little bit and the narrative started to be maybe they've always been here. Maybe not always but maybe they were here before the Ice Age and maybe they died out or maybe there's a few left. Maybe they spread their technology to all these various places on Earth while they were alive but then they were forgotten and they left or they died or something. Could it be that the UAPs we're seeing that our government is suggesting might not be coming from off Earth or the aliens who built or taught us how to build these earliest structures?

Now this is what I call recreational belief. I do not feel that I have enough data or certainty to say that there are in fact ancient humans who have been walking the Earth forever. Could it be possible that the UAPs are automated and self-repairing and have been working for 11,000 years because they're self-repairing and that the people who built them have been gone for generations and there's just the technology left and all it's doing is its sensors. It's just checking out things that need to be checked out just like it did when the aliens were here, not aliens, whoever they were. And that maybe it's just going to go on forever and they've got these little orbs and the orbs are some kind of sensors or devices to go look for stuff anyway.

So all I'm going to suggest is that we might at some point see a connection between the Göbekli Tepe and the UAPs. Somebody's going to tie those stories together like I just did.

According to the Post Millennial there was some kind of mega blacklist that got created by a Facebook group. So they were trying to figure out all the businesses that may have supported Trump so they can make a list so they could tell people not to support these businesses. I tell you, the people on the left are dumb as sometimes. Do they realize that you can't have a successful country if you do this? This is the very definition of not understanding how anything works. If we don't have a free market we got nothing. There's nothing left. If you started saying I'll only shop at your store if I agree with all of your politics we have nothing. That would destroy everything we've ever built and fairly quickly. So stop being so dumb.

Apparently there's a lot of pushback about it so I don't know that that's going anywhere but don't do that. And by the way it shouldn't be done on the right to punish the left. I would hate to see any MAGA person create a list of here are some lefty businesses you should not shop at. Now I know that they've done it for some Fortune 500 companies which is a whole different deal. You know if Target is doing some things that you've got a problem with and you're sort of publicly boycotting them that feels, it's not ideal but it feels at least fair. It's a fair fight. Target can take care of himself. Target does need to conform as best they can to its customers' preferences. So the big ones I don't mind so much. But if you're going to take out a neighborhood store, if you're going to take out the dude store on the corner because it voted the other way, you're not smart. You're not smart. Don't do that. It's bad enough that you could take out a Fortune 500 company. Don't do that either. Maybe put pressure on them so they change some minor things they're

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doing but you don't want to destroy the economy of the United States because you're mad at Americans. Don't do that. All right. Apparently there's reporting that Trump is planning to sign some kind of order to remove trans from the military like on day one. And my question was, well first of all do you think that's true? Do you think it's true that Trump is planning to remove trans from the milit…

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