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you would see the video of it doing something besides walking around and holding a box. No, I don't believe any of these stories. None of them could possibly be true. If they could really do several things, you don't think the video would include all of the several things they can do? If it could do two things, well, maybe walk and carry something as two things. If it could do three things, you do…

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y Trump's popularity on the border is going down now? It's a little bit negative. It's because he already solved it. Nobody cares about the border now because he solved it. So now it's like, yeah, who cares? Yeah, now I will only look at the bad parts now because you solved all the other parts. You know, the hordes of people coming across. That's what I was really worried about. But that's solved. So let's talk about some guy named Jesus who says he didn't get a good deal or something. That's all you got to talk about.

But he's got that going for him. Crime, which would suggest that he's going to do a lot more of it. If your top popularity thing was solving crime and you had a model for doing it, which is sending in the troops, what would stop you from doing more of that? Like maybe one new city every two months and just keep doing it. I would.

You know, Trump said he would pay for the White House ballroom himself, but it seems he has collected $200 million in pledges from big companies like Google and Palantir and Lockheed Martin that will pay as much as, I think one of them is Lockhe

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ed, it's going to give $10 million. So he's already got almost $200 million that's pledged, which makes me ask the following question. How the hell much does a ballroom cost? You can't get a ballroom built for under $200 million. Really? I mean, it's mostly a big empty room. $200 million. I don't know. Something wrong with that. CBS News is talking about that. Anyway, how many of you believed tha…

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