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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 spe…

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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 government.

Sorry, my cat is ripping up my legs right now as I'm trying to talk. Come on, Gary. Come here. I got to take care of this. Otherwise I'll need band-aids. Which one are you? All right. It's Gary. It's Gary. Of course, Gary. All right. Gary's out of my lap now.

So let me finish the Benpilled view of the government. So it seems to me that you're either a big company who uses the government to open a market for you or something. But the big companies are ripping off the government directly and indirectly. And then all these charities and NGOs appear to be nothing but ways to rip off the government. And there it looks like there are just thousands of essentially criminal enterprises in which people are ripping off the government successfully. You saw the news about the big ring of people ripping off, was it Medicaid or something like half a billion dollars or something. I feel like every single one of our budgets in the government, somebody's figuring out how to rob it. And when I look at that $2 trillion dollars a year in excess, the deficit, I really wonder if 100 percent of that is theft, legalized theft, but basically big companies and entities figuring out how to drain the government without giving enough in return back. That's what it feels like.

Allegedly, I don't believe this story, but allegedly China has developed a nuclear battery that's only the size of a coin that can run for 50 years without recharging. So it could run your cell phone for 50 years. Do you believe that there is a commercial-grade nuclear battery and that people will just put it in their phone? How do you throw it away? How do you get rid of your like doesn't it seem like that's not really something that could ever work? The nuclear battery? You say it's true? Well here's what I believe is true. I believe it works in a lab. I believe that they can demonstrate that it makes power. But do you think that the real commercial world is ready for a nuclear battery that everybody has in their pocket? I mean it will just be psychologically too scary. And I know what you're going to say, but Sc

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ott, they thought of all the safety problems and they got it to work now. Well maybe. But it just doesn't feel like people are going to want to put a, okay I've got a cat crawling on my back now. Doesn't feel like that's going to be a real thing in the market. It might work in the lab. How many people do you think have died in the Gaza war so far? Just the Palestinian side. Reportedly the Gaza He…

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