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rs later because the airplanes last a long time somebody says oh we need to add a cup dispenser or we need some cups that will fit the dispensers that are already on the plane or they need to be some special kind of cups that I don't know don't leak or something. Well to make that little tiny order of whatever it is that Air Force One needed but nobody else will ever need anywhere they might have…
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So the public argument Trump and Musk completely own. They've got the high ground. Look at what they're doing with your money. Nobody wants their money wasted. There's no cohort who says you know I'd like a little more corruption. I wouldn't mind if you spent some of my money. So even Ruy Teixeira is saying that Trump's got the high ground here. You might as well just surrender at this point if he's unless the courts can stop it.
And finally Palmer Luckey invented the virtual reality goggles for Facebook and then there was a falling out with Facebook and he went off on his own. He started Anduril, a military device company. So he's got a number of different products, drones and kind of high-tech things. So he's specifically in the higher end of the technology so that's sort of his domain that he carved out there.
And apparently Anduril Industries has now been selected to lead the development and production of the Army's integrated visual augmentation system which I think you put on the goggles and you see the real world but there is stuff that's added to it, enhanced reality. So maybe the stuff added to it is somebody communicating with you, a map of something over the hill, how much energy you have, how much power you have in your batteries. So I don't know what it would be but one does imagine it would be really really helpful to have basically I don't know if there's any AI in it but probably there will be.
So we would be sending out basically super soldiers who had all the abilities of robots basically but on top of that human abilities. So yeah this could be kind of a big thing. I guess they're going to work with Microsoft on this so could be a big deal.
Meanwhile you know that Trump has threatened that if Hamas doesn't give up the remaining hostages which include possibly two Americans that might be alive but we don't know for sure, he said that if it doesn't on Saturday by noon and we don't know which time zone he's talking about but he says Saturday at noon if they don't release all the hostages instead of what he thinks is stalling there's going to be hell to pay.
Oh Nicole Shanahan is going to have an interview with Data Republican. There you go. Look at the risk that Nicole Shanahan and RFK Jr took. Did you see the size of the risk that people are taking? People are just laying it out. They're just laying down their whole lives. It's so inspiring and Nicole is one of the most inspiring people in the game right now.
So anyway if Hamas doesn't give back the hostages they'll be held to pay. Now the first thing I think to myself is there's something non-Trumpy about this because there is a process that's already agreed and although it's not moving as quickly as possible every time a hostage gets released that's a really big deal. You know even one hostage extra would be a big big deal and that's the way we should treat it.
On the other hand you can't let the terrorists manipulate you. So Trump has said there will be hell to pay. I didn't know what hell to pay would mean. I saw some analyst on some show describe some of the options. One would be to cut the aid because apparently they can't really eat. The non-militants can't eat because there's no food in Gaza. So if it doesn't come from the outside and Israel doesn't let it in and there isn't enough of it they don't eat. So that's a pretty big deal.
Now I guess Hamas is claiming that's why they're slowing down the hostage release because they say the aid is not coming enough or fast enough. Now I don't know if that's true but it's going to get worse if they don't release the hostages. And so one thing we could do is cut their food off but we could also cut their utilities, could cut their water and their electricity. There's still a little electricity and maybe a little water somewhere. They could cut it off.
Now that would be of course punishing the civilians more than the fighters but everybody has an option of being there or not being there at this point. It could include emptying Gaza of all the civilians as in a forced exit as in now you don't get a choice. All civilians every one of you is leaving every part of Gaza and then we're just going to stomp everything that's left. We're going to kill all the tunnels, kill every person in Hamas and start over.
Now here's what I'm speculating. Part of the context of this is that the most recent hostages which we believe were released in the order of healthiest first, everybody who saw them the healthiest ones that are remaining, the healthiest ones look like Holocaust survivors. They're never going to be the same. So if there's a delay and the healthiest ones look like Holocaust survivors what does that suggest to you?
What it suggests to me is there may not be anybody left a
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live. What it suggests to me is that if there is somebody who's alive they might not even want to be at this point. That whatever is left is going to be horrible beyond imagination. And it makes me wonder if Trump maybe knows a little bit more than we do about the likely situation for the remaining hostages. It's possible that the reason they're delaying it and claiming that they need new food is…
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