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ks like I was at least part of that story. Some small part. And Victor goes further. He says they're melting down. I don't even think there is a Democratic Party now. And that's what it feels like. It doesn't feel like there's a Democratic Party. It feels like there's a bunch of people who identify as Democrats and they don't know who's in charge and they're not likely to line up behind anybody t…

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keem Jeffries. Hakeem Jeffries unfortunately has what I call evil character face, and there's nothing racial about this in case you want to jump to that. This is nothing racial, but his eyes—his eyes look like he was created in a laboratory to be Dr. Evil squared. And every time he talks, I think to myself, really? That's your leader? You pick the only person who looks like he's planning to kill you.

I mean, he looks like your cat. You ever see a cat when your cat is really unhappy and you can't miss it because it's all over the cat's face? Hakeem Jeffries seems like an angry cat. He's got that face that just looks like, "I don't even like you. I wouldn't even care if you died on the streets. I wouldn't even care if you were on fire. I wouldn't urinate on you. Look at my eyes. Do I look like I care?"

So yeah, they're in complete collapse.

According to Charles Gasparino, who is writing in the New York Post, Trump seems to be getting closer to maybe rescheduling marijuana at the federal level as a class three drug so that it wouldn't have the same penalties if you got caught. And I think that would allow—I'm not positive, but I think that would allow banks to feel more comfortable handling marijuana companies. So we'll see.

It does seem like that would be another 80-20, right? Isn't the polling something like in the neighborhood of 80% are in favor of at least decriminalizing it? Is that true? I think it's in that neighborhood. So that doesn't mean that Trump will do it or it doesn't mean it's even a good idea, but I think it's popular.

Well, according to Newsmax, the US military, as you know, is pushing for drone dominance. So Silicon Valley apparently is really ramping up hard on drones. And I saw one insider say that Silicon Valley used to be very anti-defense, meaning that they didn't want their talents to be used to make weapons for the military. But apparently that's changed. I don't know if it's because the weapons are cooler, you know, because they're drones and robots and AI and stuff, or if something about Trump has changed. I know a lot more people are signing up to be in the military. So there does seem to be some kind of major improvement in, let's say, reputation of the US military.

So I don't know if this is signaling that, but apparently now Silicon Valley is all in on making sure that we have drone dominance. Now, what does that mean when the biggest country and richest country decides it's going to be dominant in a technology and it's practical? I mean, someone's going to be dominant and why not us? Well, probably we'll get there.

And it looks like Trump is being credited with cutting a whole bunch of red tape because if you wanted to build anything that flies and does anything dangerous, you're going to need a lot of federal red tape and stuff. So apparently some of that's being cleared away to give us a chance of being dominant.

Now, let's connect some dots. Separately, there are stories about Ukrainian troops being so depleted at this point that they might be like 100,000 people short of even being able to man the trenches that they have on the front lines. But they're compensating, the story is today, with ground robots that shoot machine guns and tons and tons of drones.

So Trump has decided that we will sell technology to Ukraine but we won't give it to them. We've also decided that we want to be dominant in drones and we're going to need to test our technology to make sure that we really are dominant in an actual wartime situation. So where do you think everything's heading?

I'm going to make a suggestion and also a prediction. I think if the war continues for year after year, which is possible—I think there's a good chance it will last another five years—I feel like in three years and maybe a lot sooner, the entire front line will be robots and drones, you know, which are robots of a kind.

So imagine Trump saying to Putin, all right, here's the deal. Under normal circumstances, if you were to just straight-line what's happening now into the future, Russia would definitely take over all of Ukraine. It would take a while, but they would get there, right? Most of you believe that because Ukraine is just running out of Ukrainians. There's just not enough human beings to defend the country after a while. And so since Russia has more population, plus they're getting the North Koreans to help them, they can just outlast the humans.

But what happens if Trump said, "Here's the deal, Putin. We are trying to become the biggest military robot and drone force in the world and we need to test it and we have a really good customer. So as long as the Europeans are willing to open their wallets, we're going to sell them unlimited numbers of drones and robots, the new stuff. And eventually the entire front line is going to be robots. Once it is, you're going to have to ask yourself, can you, Russia, keep up with our technology? Because right now it's a human-versus-human contest. And the Russians have more humans, so they have a huge advantage.

It once the Ukrainians run out of humans, and that's happening quickly, if nothing changed, the Russian humans would just move forward and con

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quer what's left. But Trump can change the frame from Putin. You know that in three years this is not going to be a human-on-human war. You know that, right? And he does know that. Everybody knows that. So you say to him, here's the deal. If you keep fighting, we'll keep supplying the very best American technology to drones and robots, and you're going to be having an all-robot war, and you will…

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