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about business to know that if you're good at business you wouldn't do this for business reasons. The only way it makes sense for Elon to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country, which, given that it's America, it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world. Elon's trying to save the world now. If you say, oh, I think he's only tryi…

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ybe this is even an Elon Musk thing, or maybe it could start with him. How do you reduce egg prices? I mean, have more chickens and you know the obvious stuff. But is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices? Subsidize them? I don't know. I'd love to hear it.

And then the other thing that was a big surprise to me in the speech was Trump's going big on American shipbuilding. We'll talk about that separately. But here's what I loved. Trump starts his speech by saying, quote, "I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy in the history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest level ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and serve, will not cheer for these astronomical achievements."

Now these are imaginary achievements, but then he went on. So Democrats sitting before me, just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again.

Now obviously they weren't going to do that because they came there to be protesters and ruining his flow. But what he did was he framed them. He basically framed them. So instead of I'm giving a speech and they think I'm a big old liar and so they're trying to make a point, he framed them as not even able to agree with things that everybody should agree with.

Now do you think that they proved him right sometime during the night? The Democrats proved him right by showing that there were things that anybody should agree with, just anybody should agree with, and did they disagree with that one thing that anybody should have agreed with? Yes, they did. They fell exactly into his frame. They fell into the frame of finding the one thing that nobody could disagree with. They found a way.

And it was when he introduced the 13-year-old boy who had survived brain cancer as a kid. You know, had a real tough start in life but the little kid who, and it's important to the rest of the story, was Black and is still Black. And the kid's there with his father who looked awesome, looked like I assume that was his father, who looked like just this great supportive dad who'd gotten him to this point. And I guess the son really liked police officers, wanted to be one. And I think he'd gotten some honorary police officer badges or something from various police departments who were just being supportive of the fact that he just loved police.

So Trump comes up with this idea of having him in the audience, telling his story. And there's nothing political about it. It's literally just awesome kid survived a horrible thing, loves the police, and the police showing love back. So Trump announces that they're going to make him part of the Secret Service. Now obviously these are ceremonial kind of positions. And I think he had that new head of the Secret Service go up there and give him basically an ID, you know, like a little wallet ID thing

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that says he's part of the Secret Service. And then there was a moment that was the best moment. So I think the kid's name was DJ, and the kid just looks at it. He's just blown away. It's like the happiest thing. It's just what he loves. And he just goes in for the hug. He just grabs this guy he never met, this white guy who's just the head of the Secret Service I believe, and the 13-year-old jus…

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