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untries where ISIS has a little too much control. So they're sketchy. But the rest are MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, whatever the Venezuelan gang is. 1,200 of them and these were all let in during the Biden administration. So good job, Biden. It really makes you wonder, was Biden even working for the United States? I mean, a lot of stuff he did, it looked more like he was working to destroy the countr…

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h the top level of Democrats. And nobody mentioned it to him. And he also never noticed it on TV when he watched him the way we did. And then the media is acting like the problem was that the Democrats weren't telling the media. This is the most outrageously hilarious hoax. The Biden brain hoax. Unfreaking believable. And the question I always ask in these situations is how are the historians going to write this story? Are historians going to say despite the fact that the public could tell that Biden was mentally degraded, he was allowed to finish his term? Or are they going to say it was a closely held secret that nobody could have possibly known and then when we found out that's when he was removed from running a second time but wow it makes you doubt all history doesn't it because history is going to record if you have an AI and you're training your AI on the news and you just have your AI look at all the news reports that are happening right now, the AI would conclude that the media couldn't tell and the insiders didn't know. And that's what history will look like. Unbelievable.

Here's another unbelievable one. Apparently there was an aircraft carrier, one of our aircraft carriers in the Red Sea that was doing some kind of maneuver that was making a hard turn. Now if an aircraft carrier tries to make a hard turn, how hard can an aircraft carrier make a turn? It's not like a sharp turn, right? But apparently at the same time that the aircraft carrier was making this hard turn and maybe it was because the Houthis were attacking or something. We're not sure. But somebody was bringing a Super Hornet fighter jet out of a I don't know from one place to another and it slipped off and it fell off the aircraft carrier into the sea. Now I don't think China is too worried about our military prowess at the moment. How could this story be true? Do you believe that an aircraft carrier could make a sharp enough turn that a jet wouldn't be able to somehow correct and it would just fly off the edge of the aircraft carrier? And do you believe that nobody anticipated it and said to him, "Hey, just hold on your maneuver until we're done with this." There's something about this story that doesn't even make sense. But it's not really covering the Navy in glory.

Well, here's another story that's the least surprising. Apparently in Iran where things keep blowing up and catching on fire mysteriously, there's another factory that just blew up. And people are saying that it's an Iran drone factory. Now you might know that Iran is a big supplier of drones to Russia because they have a tight connection. And somehow that drone factory just blew up. Now who do you think did it? Now I saw online people saying, well, obviously that was Israel. You know, they blew up their drone factory. And some say that it was a drone that blew up the drone factory. But could it have been Ukraine? Don't you think Ukraine would want to blow up Iran's drone factory so that Russia didn't get more drones? I've got a feeling you had more than one country who wanted to blow up their drone factory. If it was blown up by other people, I suppose there's a possibility that there were dangerous things in that factory and it blew up on its own. But I do wonder how many drone factories there are in Iran. And the thing I would look for is, do you think any other drone factories are going to mysteriously blow up in Iran? Because I think maybe there will be another mysterious explosion of a drone factory. Could happen. I don't know why they had a drone factory above ground, by the way. That was kind of just begging for an attack.

Ukraine on Monday, yesterday, called for a permanent ceasefire because Russia had asked for a three-day ceasefire, but the three-day ceasefire was just because they have some 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Europe over Nazi Germany. So when Russia was asking for three days of ceasefire, it wasn't about a peace deal. It was just because they wanted to be doing something else for three days. And then Ukraine, of course, is saying, well, why not make it permanent ceasefire? So it seems to me that both Ukraine and Russia are just pretending and they're not pretending very well that they want peace, but they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen. So it was kind of safe for Ukraine to say, why not a permanent ceasefire, but you know, that's not going to happen, but they can take credit for asking for it. So then Ukraine can act like they're the ones who are serious about peace, but obviously they're not. Because they want Crimea and that's never going to happen. So they're not really serious about peace. And then there's a related story, Financial Times, that said that the US and Ukraine are getting really close to signing a minerals deal. Do you think that's going to happen? Cuz we're really close now. I don't know. I'd like to think that there's going to be a minerals deal, but I feel like everything that could make peace happen is going to be thwarted or sabotaged. So my best guess is we'll get really close to a mineral deal with Ukraine and then something will happen that mysteriously blows up that deal. Feels like it, but we'll see. I'd like to be wrong about that. So we'll see.

And then there's a story about all the North Korean soldiers who are fighting for Russia. Apparently, I didn't know this, Russia and North Korea have some kind of a military alliance that says that each would join in a fight for the other if they were in a war. So I don't know if that's why it's happening. Some people say that the North Koreans are practicing. So they're basically training their soldiers to know how to use dr

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ones and do modern warfare because they're getting ready to attack South Korea. I don't know about that. And then some people are speculating, including me, is Russia having a hard time recruiting because why would they even want North Korean soldiers? Is it because they're better at fighting? I don't know. And why would North Korean soldiers, I guess the ones we heard from didn't even know they w…

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