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't know what's going on in Nigeria with the slaughter of the Christians who live in Nigeria, if you don't know that you have a terrible news source. I didn't know that. Do I have terrible news sources? I literally do this every single day. I look at as many news sources as I can every day. I didn't know that. Now I did know Boko Haram or whatever it is. I did know that there were murderers and the…

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at it's ours. Ours meaning human beings or ours meaning American? I don't know. Sounds like everything is in the air, but there's not a strong belief that it's Chinese or Russian. It's possible. Basically everything's possible at this point.

I'm going to say for the millionth time there are no aliens. There are no aliens. They're not alien ships. Yeah. I don't think there's any anti-gravity. And so how do you explain the credible reports that say hey these things were behaving in a way that no earthly thing knows how to behave? The easy explanation is they didn't see it or they imagined it or they lied or they made it up or they were mistaken or they dreamed it or whatever. But the most obvious explanation is it didn't happen at all.

All right. Portland. So Trump is going to send troops to Portland to protect the war-ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege. So I guess there are big protests against ICE up there. So he's sending in the military. Yeah. All right. I don't mind that at all.

So as I've been telling you forever and other people have as well, you know that whoever is going to win the next war, whatever that war is between whoever, we don't know, it's whoever is going to have the best drones, the most drones and the best. So that makes you feel pretty comfortable, right? Because who could make better and more drones than the United States if we decided it was a national priority, right? I mean the United States still has lots of capability. I mean we're not helpless. So once we know that making lots of really good drones is the way that you stay safe, by now we're making a lot of really good drones, am I right?

Well, turns out, nope. The Pentagon drone program is a disaster. And they were trying to do something called the Replicator program, which would be awesome kind of drone. And they spent two years and millions of dollars and they have not produced a whole bunch of awesome drones. So maybe we actually don't have the ability to compete with military hardware. Now I'm hoping we could rapidly make up the difference. Seems like we could, but we just wasted two years and millions of dollars and didn't create a fleet of drones. Do you think that Iran has that problem? I don't think so. Iran seems to be really good at making drones. Wall Street Journal's reporting on that. So that's bad.

There is a woman named Lisa Monaco who works at Microsoft lately. She's an executive there in one of their top executive roles. And Trump wants her fired because her job before that was, I think, the number two in the DOJ under Biden. And Trump says she's a bad person. And he's asking Microsoft directly to fire her. He says it is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco. Trump said on Truth Social. He described her as a quote menace to US national security and he cited Microsoft's government contracts as part of his threat against Microsoft. Apparently he had withdrawn her security clearance last March at the same time he withdrew a bunch of other people's security clearance.

So what do you think of that? Do you think that Trump has a moral, ethical case that she should be fired from a private enterprise when she doesn't seem to be doing anything that would affect him? I don't know. I think if Microsoft did fire her, I think I'd be a little worried. That would not be cool in my opinion. Now I'm not a big fan of hers, but I don't know. I feel like she'd have to do something worse in the context of just having a job in the private sector. I would need to know that she did something in that domain that was unacceptable.

So the Department of Justice is suing six states that have apparently refused to share their voter roll maintenance records. So the federal government apparently wants to make sure that the states are doing what the states are supposed to be doing, which is running clean elections. Guess which six states are refusing to share their voter maintenance records with the federal government? Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and also California. Okay. Does it make you feel suspicious when they don't provide something that couldn't possibly be a problem if it's accurate? If it's accurate, what would be the problem? It would solve a problem for the stat

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es because they say, "See, look how good our records are. I told you they were accurate. Now you can see for yourself. Take a look." Why would they withhold it? I can only think of one reason. They know their voter records are either fraudulent or so poorly maintained that it's a security problem. I can't think of another reason unless it's just sort of general say no to everything Trump wants. A…

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