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et back that money. Now I guess Lee Zeldin is trying to get it back anyway. But so the top DC prosecutor resigned rather than opening some kind of a criminal investigation of how that $20 billion got transferred. And well it looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way. But I've got this question. What is the crime? I get that it's sketchy and I get that it's suboptimal and I get that it's sort of a…

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that's the cartel. Fox News, Michael Lee is reporting on this. And I guess they've been targeted by lasers about six times now. Lasers meaning not a laser weapon but like a laser pointer. Apparently if you point that at a pilot it can blind them. So even though it might not do it if you were closer to it, there's something about the distance I guess that could make it blind the pilot. So it's very very dangerous and it's an attack. So even though it's not the kind of laser that slices the plane in half or the helicopter in this case, it's deadly. It's potentially deadly.

And the question I wonder is I wonder if it would be legal to respond with deadly force. Now I think this helicopter probably wasn't armed but if it were a military helicopter and it's near the border but it's on our side and somebody lasers it, could you not treat that as a military attack and just light them up and just take them out? Because they know where it comes from. I mean they can literally see the laser origin point. I'd be in favor of military action. So to me that would seem entirely justified. I mean I don't care if it's a teenager who thinks it's funny. If you're trying to take down an aircraft and it's our aircraft and it's armed, yes it can kill you. That seems entirely fair to me. So we'll see where that goes.

So I was as

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king the other day about the discrepancies in the Social Security database that DOGE found. And I think a lot of people were interpreting it as that they found corruption because there was indication that there were a lot of death fields that were set to false or something as if they never died. And it would give you the indication that there were Social Security numbers that can be used for illeg…

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