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get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can check out from life on your own. And let's say 15,000 people did it last year. So almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves. But here's the interesting political part. 96% of the people who are choosing the option to end their own lives are white…

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g a Russian cousin entity right on their border or Putin who wants to control Russian entities on his border? Now both of them are military. Both of them are killing people to get the thing that they want. But I feel like in this analogy we're Hitler. Are we not? We're the ones taking over a country that we had no business taking over and we're doing it for empire reasons. Very clearly empire reasons. We're the Hitler. You know that right now.

Here's where it gets complicated. I don't know if it's a bad thing. Obviously it would be a bad thing to literally be Hitler and killing minorities for being minorities but we're not doing that. What we are doing as a country and we've done it for a couple hundred years is every dirty trick in the book to expand our empire. That's who we are. That's who America is. We are dirty tricksters who try to conquer every country we can because the more control we have the better we think our own futures will be. It's for the money mostly but money and national defense are basically the same thing. So yeah we're the Hitler McConnell. You have this backwards.

So do you think that McConnell is saying what he believes? Do you think that he believes that this is like the run-up to World War II or does he know that America is the Hitler in this case and we're just propagandizing? I feel like he knows we're the Hitler but again I'm not going to criticize anybody who says we have to be an empire or we become nothing. You either have to be an empire or slaves basically and I think it's been like that through all of history. So anyway that's happening.

According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health half of the calories people eat at home are ultra-processed foods. Now if you try to not eat food that's bad for you in America it would either be really expensive or really time-consuming or you'd have to do tons of research to find out what's good for you and what isn't. I feel like there needs to be a new model for making and preparing and eating food like really a basically different model.

And now I ask the following question. Do you think that after all these years of people trying various indoor farming experiments and the fact that indoor farming still hasn't caught on at least wherever there's outdoor farming is easily available do you think that Big Food has been destroying any innovation in indoor farming? Because indoor farming would allow people to do it themselves locally and it would cut out Big Food for at least the people who use the indoor farms. I feel as if it's nearly impossible that we could have gotten to 2024 with all the things we can do technically and that we can't build an indoor farm that's local maybe attached to your house but very very local and it's cost effective and low maintenance and low cost. We can't do that. It feels like there must be some large entity that's trying to make sure that we can't and the only one I could think of would be Big Food because everybody else would like good food. So I'm just—this is just my conspiracy theory. I don't have any evidence there's any kind of conspiracy like that but I did work in the food industry for a while because I made a food product the Dilberito and one of the things I learned working in the food industry is that it's completely corrupt. The food industry is mostly criminals. That was my experience. It was the most corrupt thing I've ever seen. Now I've worked at banking and bankers are not angels all the time but they run a pretty clean shop right. They weren't all criminals they were just doing their jobs. Phone company I worked for the phone company for years not all go-getters but they were good people honest mostly you know just trying to do their job. But my experience in the food distribution and grocery industry I think they're pretty much all crooks. I saw some—you don't even want to know about it. It's almost a criminal enterprise. So I have no evidence that they've suppressed indoor farming innovations but I'd love to talk to Kimball Musk about it. I know he was into indoor farming. He would know the real story so maybe I'll look into that.

PJ Media is reporting that the mainstream media finally admits Obamacare is a failure but primarily in cost. It's a success in signing people up so that's what the Democrats say but it would be a failure in controlling costs just so you know.

Rachel Maddow ratings have tanked along with MSNBC in general. So Axios is reporting that so she's now got her show went from five days a week where she was paid $30 million and she was like the face of the network. Then she for her own personal reasons had to go back to one day a week just Monday and she got paid the same because she was still on contract. Then when the contract was to be renewed still working one day a week they negotiated that she would get $25 million for one day a week.

So let's go back to my hypothesis and prediction. You remember my prediction that DEI kills everything it touches but the prediction is that it kills first and fastest wherever it is introduced first and most ag

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gressively. So wherever it's introduced early and aggressively those places will die first. So that's how you know DEI is toxic because there should be a perfect correlation between how aggressive and early you were in it and how soon you die you know your organization. So imagine trying to sell MSNBC when one of your stars works one day a week for $30 million. Nobody would buy that. But why do t…

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