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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 ear…

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ade you got to tell us. We're not going to put up with we made a secret deal with the PTO. That's not going to happen.

What about Diddy? It's hard for me to imagine that Trump would pardon Diddy because I don't think Diddy has anything to offer and he got a relatively low sentence compared to what it could have been. And he's young enough that if he gets out in four years or maybe he would get out in two years you know time served good behavior he's already you know so it might be like a two-year sentence for what looks like pretty bad behavior as far as we can tell.

So I feel like Trump would say you know what I feel like you can last two years and then you've paid some of your debt and then I'm not in the line for explaining it forever. So I'm going to say maybe yes on Maxwell but probably no on Diddy. That's my best guess.

Now if Diddy is still there in three years might Trump say I'll let you out in six months early before the end of my term. Maybe. Maybe he'd have to have an argument. I don't know what that argument would be but can't rule it out.

Well Trump was commenting on Greta Thunberg. She was arrested in Israel trying to advocate for the Palestinians and she was part of that flotilla that went over there and they all got picked up. And this is what Trump said. Quote, she's just a troublemaker. You mean she's no longer into the environment? She's an anger management problem. I think she should see a doctor. If you ever watch her for a young person she's so angry. She's so crazy. No you can have her. You can have her. She's just a troublemaker.

Could that be more perfect? That's exactly what I would want Trump to say. I want him to say those exact words. Yeah.

But here's what I think. I feel like we keep ignoring, although every now and then you'll hear somebody like Dr. Drew or Jordan Peterson bring it up, that there might be a cluster B personality type that seems to be concentrated in the Democrat or at least left-leaning world. Do you believe that?

So the cluster B are the people who are narcissists and they've got the kind of problems that bother other people. The cluster Bs are problems, mental problems that mostly bother other people. You know like a narcissist. The narcissist might be perfectly happy but they bother other people.

So and we know that the Democrats at least have massively more mental health problems and massively more often they'll go to therapy and massively more often they'll take antidepressants. So it's really sort of a cluster B problem that pretends to be political.

I think the politicians, the elected politicians are not necessarily cluster B. They're just looking for power. But they can't have power unless they treat all the cluster Bs like they're serious people. That's how they get their power. So you've got these Democrat leaders who are pretending that these people who have serious mental health problems are just people with a different opinion. No they're not people with a different opinion. They are legitimatel

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y mentally ill. But that's our politics today. Representative Anna Luna she was on the Danny Jones podcast and she was talking about influencers who are being paid to push narratives. And I thought to myself I still don't know even one influencer who pushed a narrative for money. Do you? When I hear the names of the influencers it's always these super young ones that I've never seen even once and…

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