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a thousand times in a row and a thousand times in a row without anybody ever getting seriously hurt. Really? That looks organic to you? And that's when I realized how dumb the world was because I was surrounded by adult people who voted who believe that was real just organically happening. And I would try to convince them no no it's more like the old professional wrestling. It's part of the show.…

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em is supposed to work. Remember the whole point of DOGE, the sort of the DNA of the operating principle is they're going to move fast. They know they're going to break stuff and then when somebody points it out they're going to fix it. So move fast, break stuff fast, fix stuff fast. Here it is. They moved fast. They made some mistakes. Hiring people said whoa whoa whoa we can't replace these nuclear experts. You're going to have to keep them. And then they're rehired. Now I don't know if they successfully rehired them but the point is this is exactly what I want to see. I want to see they go too far but they go fast. They make mistakes. They fix it. Move on. Perfect. That's the perfect system. It incorporates the fact that there will be mistakes and then it just deals with them.

All right. I guess JD Vance gave a provocative speech at that European security conference whatever it was called and went at the Europeans for saying you know why do you expect our help in America when you're opposing our most basic core values of free speech by trying to censor Americans? I love that frame. Why are we helping you if you're trying to stop the very thing that makes America America, free speech? So you could do it to yourselves. We don't recommend it but don't do it to us. If you're trying to censor us and you're asking for us to defend you, no. And I think that has to be a hard no. I literally think if Europe is censoring the United States we should give them no defense whatsoever. None. 100% on board with letting Europe fall to whoever wants to take them over because if they can't give us that one thing, the one thing that they should just keep the out of our business with what we say in America, absolutely not. And I'm not joking about that. I say zero defense for Europe as long as they're trying to censor us in the United States. Zero. No. There's no negotiating on that. You need to get that stuff taken care of because no, hard no. We're not going to do a thing for you. We could watch Russia just roll up Europe. I'd be fine with it if that's the alternative. If that's the alternative I'm fine with it because you know what Putin doesn't do? Putin doesn't try to censor us does he? Has Putin ever tried to censor the United States? I don't believe so. But if we get censored by Europe and they do have a way to do that because they can get our multinational corporations in trouble, so not cool. That you're just dead to me. That's what I feel. So good job JD Vance. He got really good grades for not just presenting America well but doing it extra well and saying wha

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t needed to be said. Palmer Luckey is on Shawn Ryan's podcast and he had some interesting things to say about manufacturing. He said that Trump understands that if we don't manufacture in America we're just everyone else's. So he talked about how China could just turn off the economy of the United States anytime it wants because we can't manufacture over here. And if we can't get the Chinese good…

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