e extra percentages. I guess what they do is some kind of metals. Some kind of rare metals. Which ones? Seems like they should tell us right in this article which rare metals are getting. It's the good stuff.

So that would be another 10% maybe 17.5% if the warrants are used. And so I went to Grok and I said if the US took a 10% equity stake in every company in the US that was involved in rare earth minerals what would that be worth in 10 years? Because I was wondering is this so valuable these rare earths that even if you just get 10% that if you wait 10 years it's worth you know five trillion or something. Is that possible? And that it would take an actual bite out of the national debt.

And the answer is unfortunately it's in the tens of billions. So it's not in the trillions at all. It's you know maybe up to a hundred billion but you're not going to get much more than that. Still it's free money. Do you not want to take some free money if the federal government can provide a service that it wouldn't necessarily have to do? It could take some equity because it's not the government taking the equity. It's me right? It's you. The government doesn't own it. It's the people. So yeah give me some damn equity.

All right. Well apparently Trump has not ruled out but nor has he ruled in a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell and he was also asked about it and in the Trumpian way he did the perfect answer which is he hasn't looked into it. It sounds like he will look into it but he hasn't looked into it.

Now what would happen if Ghislaine Maxwell got a pardon? What do you think that would do to the MAGA world? If Ghislaine Maxwell got a pardon wouldn't you assume that she's agreed to keep some secrets and that that would be the basis for getting the pardon? Wouldn't you assume that? Wouldn't have proof. I wouldn't have even a smoking gun. But I would kind of assume that somebody made a deal, wouldn't you?

So if you really want to stir things up and get people talking about this forever the pardon would do it. And by the way I don't have an opinion on whether it should be done or not. But I would say yes to the pardon if it required her to talk and give up some names that maybe we hadn't heard before. So if we could learn something that the victims or the country needs to know, I'm not as concerned about punishing her. You've been punished a little bit. I'm not as concerned about that as I am knowing what really happened.

Now some of you would say the opposite. You say no punishment is the main thing. You know even if we don't find out what happened you know you got to punish people for doing what she did. I get it. I get the argument. But I put a little bit more weight given that she's been punished somewhat. You know not enough but somewhat. I would look at what use we could get from her. And if she could open the vault and tell us all the things that we really care about, really care about, but wouldn't find out any other way, I would reluctantly be in favor of a pardon. Reluctantly. And I would never back off reluctant. But maybe we'd have to see what we got in return.

And if it's only the government who finds out what we got in return that's not good enough. The people got to know. We got to know. If there's a deal m