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idterms. Now, that's what James Carville says. Now, that would be an example of getting your base all riled up, but it does seem to suggest that he believes that you could rig an election. So can he talk to Anderson Cooper on CNN? Cuz he believes that an election can be rigged, but maybe not by rigging the vote. I think he's suggesting that he might rig something about the system, you know, declar…

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y supporting innovation and removing bureaucratic stuff and red tape and stuff. Now, hold that in your brain. Do you remember 2016 or so when I was one of the people on social media who was lobbying really hard for both sides of the aisle to understand that nuclear power was not just better than you thought it was in terms of safety and economics etc. but required that we would never make it into the future as an important country unless we had turned around completely our nuclear energy policies and made them pro-nuclear power plants being built. So that's now the common opinion on both the left and the right because the Washington Post opinion piece would represent I think the left fully embracing you know maybe not the left left left but the ordinary left embracing nuclear power as a requirement but also the fact that they would write an article saying that Trump might be exactly the right person to get us there because he's big on removing the unnecessary regulations. That's amazing. It's just amazing that this even exists in the Washington Post.

And then I said to myself, oh, wait a minute. Did the Washington Post just think from first principles and came to this idea that now they can be full-throatedly embracing nuclear energy. Is that what just happened? Or is it possible that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos? It is. And that Jeff Bezos needs massive amounts of electricity to run his robot factories and his own AI. Oh yeah. So the owner of the Washington Post absolutely cannot survive in the future without massive nuclear power and every other kind of energy. So did the Washington Post on their own come up with a new love for nuclear energy or do they know who they work for and they know that the business of the owner, you know, the extended business of all of his businesses can't survive without a robust nuclear energy industry in the United States? Just asking.

All right. According to Modernity, John Fleetwood, the Xfinity company, the one who provides cable and Wi-Fi to your house, at least does in my house, they now can spy on your physical movements in your house via your Wi-Fi. So you've probably seen stories about this where Wi-Fi can see interference and it can draw a little picture of where you are in your house. Did you know that? Now, that's not a big problem except there's an allegation that Palantir, which is a big government contracted company that has connections to a whole bunch of data about you. So do you feel okay that Palantir might, I don't know this for sure, but might someday have access to the Wi-Fi movement information so they could tell where you are in your house and maybe even decisions about what you might be doing and what you might do in the future. I don't know how much of this is real and how much of this is people just worrying that it could become real, but it's pretty scary. So I don't know if it's real or just a potential real thing. It is real that they can determine where you are. So even Xfinity is advertising that. What we don't know or I don't know is if Palantir is going to have access to that data and use it in some way you don't like.

All right. Fox News is reporting how the IAEA has warned that Iran could restart their uranium enrichment within months despite the US strikes. So do you buy that? So even Iran has admitted that the nuclear program was hit hard and you know a lot of destruction. But do you believe the IAEA who are experts in this field that they could start enriching in a few months? I don't know. I don't know how they would know that. But we also wouldn't know what they can do that we don't know about. So I don't know.

So anyway, some bipartisan lawmakers, people on both sides have proposed that we put together a plan to sell B-2 stealth bombers to Israel so that we don't have to be involved if Israel wants to rebomb Iran. Is that a good idea or a terrible idea? Because I feel like Trump got a lot of benefit from being the only one who could do these bunker buster bombs. If Israel could do it on its own, then Trump would have had no leverage over Israel, right? And we like it when you know because we know Israel is influential in the United States in Congress. Wouldn't it be good if there was some influence that worked both ways and it was pretty strong influence? Cuz then you've got a more productive ally situation where you're both you both got your hand on a lever and sometimes one prevails and sometimes the other, but you know, you're both pushing. I don't know. I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea.

There's another report in Newsmax that North Korea is going to be sending 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers to boost the Russian military in Ukraine. Is that because Russia is running out of troops? Or whether they were running out or not, it's just cheaper and easier to burn up these North Korean soldiers who don't even know why they're there. So it could be either one. I'm not sure I'd read too much into it.

All right, that is all I have to say today. And look how I came pretty close to 8:00. So did the big beautiful bill get voted on? You remember my prediction? My prediction is that they would delay it after July 4th. So I don't have a prediction about whether it gets signed, just a prediction that they're not going to make the July 4th deadline. They tried and I think there's still a really good chance they're going to hit it. So we'll compare my prediction that they won't hit it to all the reporting that's a lot smarter than me that says, "Yeah, it looks like they're going to hit it." So I see in the comments that Jack Pobiec thinks it will happen today. I think most people think it will happen today because Trump's going to put the pressure from hell on the Republicans. Trump really, really, really, really wants this to happen before July 4th or even on July 4th. And he's going to push as hard as anybody ever pushed anybody, but anything to get it done. So I would agree with Jack that the odds are it'll get done, but I'm still going to go with my prediction that it won't just to be a contrarian.

All right. All right. That's all I got. I'm going to say a few words to the people on Locals, my beloved subscribers on Locals. The rest of you, thanks for joining and I will see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place. Hope you enjoyed it.