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to the wall 100 percent commitment, lots of good partners. You can get it done. These are deep deep learnings that will become part of our personalities without doing anything about it. We're just watching but he's training us what works and what doesn't in these big big big situations. That if we learn that that's worth more than two trillion dollars a year. It will put us in a winning position…

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her father was rich and died? Nobody asked that right? She could have inherited. Well how would we know?

Perhaps she knew somebody working at Nvidia and at some point somebody said to her I got to tell you this Nvidia stuff is amazing you should get in on this last year. Well what if she had said you know I've got six million and there's never going to be anything like this Nvidia again so I'll put a million dollars on Nvidia. Does that give you 24 million pretty quickly? Might. It might if you pick the right thing.

What if she got married and her husband was rich? Would that show up? Would we have noticed that? Now I'm not saying she did. I have no information about it whatsoever. But if you think that the only way she could have made that money that quickly is corruption let me just brainstorm a little bit. Innocent until proven guilty right? Samantha Power is innocent until proven guilty and I have no evidence, no evidence that she committed a crime. It's just there's a little bit of a flag there and maybe if somebody looks into it they'll say oh you inherited an estate. Cool. That's the end of the question.

But there will be other people that I think will be a little more suspicious and probably all of them have to be looked into. So I don't like targeting a person and then looking for a crime and I don't love the fact that if somebody has a lot of money that's automatically suspicious. There are people who make a lot of money quickly in ways that are legal. It does happen. So we'll see.

Elon Musk today on X talking about the size of the potential fraud in the government. He said this. He said at this point, now keep in mind he's looked into things not comprehensively but he's seen quite a bit so far, he says at this point I'm 100 percent certain that the magnit

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ude of the fraud in federal entitlements, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, disability etc. exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by far. Now because they're such big entities it wouldn't take much for it to be the biggest scandal in American history and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bigger scam and scandal than anything we've ever seen. You know I'l…

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