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happen and you realize that you don't have a path to being important. And he probably was raised with the expectation that given all of his gifts, his brilliance, etc., that he was going to be important. Maybe a politician, maybe change the world, maybe invent something. And then he finds out none of that's going to happen and there's nothing he can do about it. What would you do in that situation…

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say I went from, ah you know if he makes it that'd be great. If he doesn't make it I'm sure we'd just pick somebody who's great at the job so the country will be fine either way. But when I find out that he joined twice to be in battle that's a different kind of you. You don't get many of those. So I feel like he could lead and that's important. You'd have credibility. You'd have to have at least that much credibility. Because if you make big changes such as getting rid of DEI, right, if he came in he was just like some desk-sitting pundit and then he came in and said I'm going to get rid of DEI in the military, maybe it wouldn't go over so well. But if he comes in as a genuine committed warrior who's got all this history of helping veterans that nobody questions, by the way, when it comes to his support of veterans even his critics say okay that part's good. So I don't know. We'll see what happens.

75 Nobel laureates have signed a document according to The Hill urging the Senate to reject RFK Jr. How's that hit you? Imagine you went back in time. All right close your eyes. I'm going to take you back 20 years. Now imagine it's 20 years in the past and 75 Nobel scientists have come out against someone whose job would be in the realm indirectly of science, maybe directly. 75 Nobel laureates. My God that must be the worst candidate. Of course I would agree with the laureates, wouldn't you? I mean 75 of the best scientists think that this person who would be involved in scientific decisions is the wrong person. That's really strong, right?

Right now fast forward to today. Boop. Okay it's today. 75 Nobel laureates just said RFK Jr. is unqualified for the job. Yes, yes that's who I want. That's who I want. Yeah, yeah. If the only thing that would make this better would be 175 Nobel laureates who don't want him in the job. If we could get a few more Nobel laureates who say that RFK Jr. shouldn't have a job, I mean I'll go to Washington and lobby for him. I mean this is the best endorsement I've seen because science is paid off, commercial. Every one of these scientists probably has a job or is connected with some company that doesn't want to get raped by RFK Jr. bringing the truth to them and they're just fronting for these companies. No I don't trust any of you Nobel laureates. Not one. You have no credibility. If science wants to be credible you better up your game and maybe not work for somebody all the time because the truth is if you're a scientist and you have a boss you're gonna do what your boss tells you and your boss is not a scientist probably. Probably just wants to sell some. So 75 Nobel laureates, you just made yourself look like clowns, idiots. Stay out of it, clowns.

Well Syria as you know fell to the rebels but the experts are saying well you know it might completely fall apart and become a failed state like Libya or maybe they'll figure it out. There's not a lot of caring about Syria. But meanwhile Israel apparently has made over 200 air raids in Syria since the war was over. What are they doing? Can you guess what they're doing? So Israel has made 200 air raids, you know bombing basically, 200 since the war ended. There's no war. What are they bombing? They were bombing all the assets that were abandoned by the Syrian military. So if they had a plane or a tank or a truck Israel just decided to make it all go away. The entire assets of the Syrian military are gone. They took them all out.

Now I assume that they did that so that the rebels who just took over the country can't use those assets someday against Israel's interests. That was a really smart thing for Israel to do if that's what's happening. Now I don't know if we know the whole story but if what they did is they said you know we'll warn people to get out of the way because we don't need to kill any people but every one of these military assets in Syria is going to go boom and they just did runs until it was all gone and the reporting is they got it all. They got all the big stuff. Wow.

Now how far Israel goes into Syria to be determined. I don't think they need, I don't think they're planning to take it over. I think they're just making sure that their security zone is safe and that they got rid of the big dangerous assets there. As somebody pointed out earlier Israel took out Syria's nuclear program 20 years ago and that today looks like a genius move because Syria with nuclear weapons would be a really bad idea right now. So Israel seems to be winning on that regard. Iran seems to be weakened.

And then there's also the question of whether the neocons had always planned to conquer Syria and Libya and Iraq and there's plenty of indications that that was America's secret plan was to conquer all these countries. And sure enough there was a war in Iraq, there's a war in Syria and Libya you already know about. So yeah the United States is, we're really bad but in a good way. We are the worst criminals in the world in terms of how we're dealing with other countries. They should be none of our business but we feel like we have to overthrow them all the time. But like I say we live in the real world not the magical make-believe world where if you're nice to other people they'll be nice to you. That's not what the world is. The world is whoever is the biggest bastard might survive a little longer. That's it. That's the whole world. The biggest bastard, if they're good at it, you know not just being a bastard but you got to be good at it, they live, they survive the longest, they have the best lives. I hate to say it but being bastards works for the country so we're going to keep doing it I assume. Although I think under Trump it will look completely different at least the military part of it. He might try to persuade instead of try to destroy.

Meanwhile speaking of Trump, Post Millennial says that he's going to have executive orders to end birthright citizenship on the first day of office. Now birthright citizenship is that if you're born in this country you get to be a citizen even if your parents were non-citizens who came in just to have a baby. So there are ways to game the system then. It also creates families where you can't really deport the whole family because one of them is now an American citizen so that becomes a problem.

But the question is can you use an executive order to change a law if you're clever about it? And I think what they're trying to do is according to the Post Millennial is that the executive order would change the requirements for citizenship for identifying documents. In other words they might say something like you're a citizen if you have a birth certificate that says you're a citizen and maybe some of the illegals don't. I don't know. So there must be some kind of documentation that they think the people born here wouldn't have access to. I don't know the details. So will this work? Probably not. I think it'll be challenged in the courts and probabl

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y get overturned. I didn't know this but apparently Liz Cheney is complaining because Trump has vowed to jail the January 6 committee. Did he vow to jail them or did he just say they should be in jail? Maybe that's reported as the same. But apparently members of that special committee, that J6 special committee, are worried about retribution. Retribution, huh? In the comments can you tell me how…

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