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l like it's going to be nothing until it isn't. So this is one of those ones that's gonna be like, "Oh it's a little bit better. It's a little bit better." Boom. Suddenly it'll be everybody can do everything. There's now a robot. I saw some Mario Nawfal posts on this that can perform a surgery on an egg, so they can actually pull the shell off it without injuring the egg. It's so fine. And at the…

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re the federal government surged in some troops, they made almost 1,400 arrests. 12 known gang members arrested, five missing children rescued, 140 firearms seized, and 50 homeless camps cleared. It's pretty good. That's pretty darn good. Trump is winning so hard on crime. It's just wonderful to see. Yeah. So we'll see. But he's winning hard.

Here are some things the government has decided to spend less money on lately. And you know I told you that the thing that Trump and Elon Musk especially brought to the government is competition to see who can cut the most. I feel like before their incentive was to spend the most because whoever could control the most budget and get the most stuff done would look the best. But somehow now looking the best means can you cut the budget in your area? So we've seen Bill PT making cuts. We've seen talk about the Fed doesn't need that building. So we're seeing cuts all over the place.

Trump is cutting $679 million in federal funds for offshore wind projects. O is reporting about that. So Trump is very anti-wind projects. So he just cut the budget. $679 million. Boop. There you go. Meanwhile RFK Jr. has canceled $122 million in LGBT and diversity grants according to the National Pulse. Now does Health and Human Services need to make LGBTQ and diversity grants? Like why are they even doing that? So he just cut $122 million. Boop.

And then Kristi Noem canceled thousands of FEMA contracts after DOGE found that a lot of it was waste. O is reporting on this too. So how much? She got $10 million for that, $3 million for that, $1.6 for that. So a bunch of millions. The Daily Caller is reporting on that as well. So it feels to me like Congress could have made a budget by just taking the current budget and telling everybody to cut 10 percent and just calling it a day or whatever percent they need to cut to get it to balance. But the level of, I won't call it necessarily waste, but things you didn't absolutely have to spend money on is crazy

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. And so Mike Benz has totally Benpilled me and now I'm seeing things through his frame. And the one thing that seems obvious is that you can only get rich by robbing the government. Now you might be a big tech company that's working with the CIA and then the CIA says, "Well we'll make sure that you make billions of dollars because you're playing well with us." That would be robbing the governmen…

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