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t the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, and the SEC were all investigating Joe and Hunter Biden but were told to stand down. And Jim Biden was even being investigated for Medicare fraud. Insurrection Barbie's talking about this on X. Apparently six banks reported to the Treasury Department that the Bidens were committing financial crimes, but everyone was told to stand down. Now, wouldn't that be the bigges…

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lab locations. I don't know if we can. I don't know if there's any way to find them from the air. But suppose we could, and then we just turn it over to the other faction and just let them destroy each other until they're so weakened that then you go in. But you wait until they've just beaten themselves into nothing.

There is some worry that if the Sinaloa cartel implodes over their internal conflicts, that one of the other cartels would just take over. So nothing will change. So it's complicated.

I saw a report that comes from the Telegraph. Now, consider the source. So some people say that's not a very credible source. But the Telegraph says that Iran fears an immediate attack on its nuclear facilities, and so they've increased all their defenses near the nuclear facilities. And the source says that Iran expects attack every night, even on nuclear facilities that no one knows about. And Iranian officials said that the regime could fall if America joins the attack.

You know what I say about that story? I could have written that story without doing any research. Do you think the Telegraph did any research? Scott, what do you think Iran is doing about its nuclear facilities? I'd say, well, if I were them and anybody else would say the same thing, they're probably trying to figure out how to protect them as best they can. Scott, do you think that the Iranian regime is worried that if America and Israel attacked, it could have an impact on their ability to lead in the future? And I would say, duh, yeah. We're not going to leave their regime alone if we do a major attack in their country. And even if we don't directly attack the regime, losing all their nuclear facilities and all of their anti-aircraft does put some question about their stability.

So on one hand, I don't know if the Telegraph story is real. On the other hand, it's exactly what you would have made up if you wanted to act like you did some research but you didn't.

The Indian army, according to Next Defense, they have an AI weapon that can track and shoot in just 10 milliseconds, and it can hit a target a mile away every time. It can hit a target a mile away every time, and it can do it in a millisecond. Now, at the moment it requires a human to allow the shot. But does anybody think that will always have to have a human? Imagine the war starts, and both sides have these incredibly effective machine guns that never miss, and they're both AI. And one of them says you better ask me before you fire, and the other one says if it's in that direction, that's where all the bad guys are, so just fire. The one who removes the human is going to win every war. So the human will be removed. And you know, I don't want to say Skynet because it's too obvious, but how does it not happen? There is no future where Skynet doesn't happen, is there? Now, there is a future where maybe it's not in control, but there's no future in which warfare doesn't look exactly like this.

And then, did you know that there are 10 new major battery plants that are coming online in the US looking to d

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ouble our capacity? Now, the reason I tell you these stories, there's always a battery story, you know, there's some new battery technology or new battery factory. I like to tell you about some stories that you can tell what the future is by the insurance industry. Like whatever the insurance companies tell you, that's really indicative of the future, I think. This battery stuff, if you didn't fol…

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