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uld be illegal. I think he claimed that somebody offered him $10 million to drop out but I don't know about that. James O'Keefe has another win for his undercover work. He exposed a hundred billion dollar federal contracting scam where minority-owned businesses would get contracts because they could get them because they're minority owned but then they would just farm out the work to other entiti…

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t if you're a Monroe Doctrine loving president of the United States? Well number one would be to cut off their source of funds. That's the first thing Trump always has. And the way to cut off their funds is to kill their drug business. Once you've cut off their funds, well then you get a little bit more flexibility, don't you? Then they're going to negotiate. Then they might need to get into a different business. Then maybe they won't even be able to pay paramilitary people to attack the United States. So generally speaking I'm in favor of the US degrading the income that the two countries, Venezuela and Colombia, get from drugs. Not just because it might keep some Americans alive. I worry that we can't make much difference. They'll just pay more for the drugs and then it won't make a difference. So I worry that it doesn't work that way but it definitely works to reduce the income of the two leaders who may or may not be leaders of criminal enterprises. So if that's what's going on, and at the very least that is what's going on. It's not all that's going on but definitely it's going on that they're in the drug business, the two leaders of those countries, and that we're decreasing their income substantially. That should be useful. It should be useful. We'll see.

And I guess Breitbart's reporting that the Coast Guard found 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific. In other words on a boat. So they interdicted 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific. So that would be the other side of the country if you're keeping track. So both sides of the country have a massive drug problem. But 100,000 pounds. I asked Grok how many overdoses that could respond to. Three billion. So if it's true that there's 100,000 pounds of coke and if you were to divide it up just enough to kill a person and so everybody got a dose that was an overdose you could kill three billion people. Is that right? It doesn't feel right, does it? 100,000 pounds of coke is a lot of coke but really three billion people. I feel like maybe Grok was hallucinating on that one. Don't take my word for it.

Meanwhile we're starting to suspect a big land attack on Mexico is coming from the US. Apparently everything's approved at least by the president, not by Congress. And maybe that won't happen. But it looks like the CIA is already planning where would be the best place for an attack. How are you going to do it? There's no word as to whether Mexico would be involved in it. Seems like that would be a mistake because there's no way you could trust the Mexican forces not to turn you in and tell the cartels what's coming. So I don't see how we could work with Mexico. The best we could probably do is ask them to get out of the way. I don't know. We'll see where that goes.

Meanwhile the Washington Free Beacon, Aaron Sibarium, is writing that UC San Diego had this race-based scholarship thing which when they got in trouble for having a race-based scholarship you couldn't get it if you're white basically. All they did was they moved the scholarship thing into this external organization to make it look like it wasn't the college doing it because if it wasn't the college doing it then it could still happen. And apparently that didn't fly. So they're getting rid of that trick. Apparently it was the Ku Klux Klan Act that stops people from using race. And there it was actually the Ku Klux Klan Act that stopped them.

Amazon says they're going to replace 600,000 workers with robots. I feel like that's just the start. Now I don't give you and I'm very emphatic about this. I don't give financial advice but I will give you a financial lesson if you can handle the difference. So do not make any investments based on what I'm about to say or anything I've ever said before because I'm not your financial adviser, but I can tell you things like diversifying is a good thing. That would be a lesson. That's not advice, right? Diversifying is a good thing.

So here's another one of those. I've said this before but one of the ways that I look to invest if I'm looking at an individual company I look for one that's going to stay in business first. That's number one. But also if they're involved in something that will only happen once in the history of the world. So one of the reasons I have stock in Tesla is that there will only be one time in the history of humanity when robots are introduced. There'll only be one time when AI is introduced at least in that business too. There'll only be one time that we're going to move to massive solar and batteries and stuff. So basically Elon is in all these one-time only trends. So of course I own that stock. Now I'm not recommending it. I'm explaining the thinking that somebody would use. Not recommending it.

Now we see that Amazon is on the verge of replacing humans with robots. How many times in the history of the world will that happen once? What would be presumably the biggest expense at Amazon? Humans, right? Wouldn't that be their biggest expense? So there might be one time in the history of the world where this big dynamic successful incredible company Amazon gets rid of people. Now this could be a disaster for the economy in general while their stock might do well because they're reducing their costs. Now does that sound like a recommendation to buy Amazon? No. Because here's the part you're missing. The other thing that's going to happen only once, only once is that the AI will eat Amazon because OpenAI is already adding shopping. Would you use Amazon if you could just pick up your thing and say, "All right, I want to buy this thing. What should I buy?" Okay good. There's a link. Boom. Why would you go to Amazon? Well Amazon also will have an AI. So maybe the very best combination of AI advice plus photos of the product plus return plus free shipping. Maybe that's enough to keep it all on Amazon because remember you're talking about Bezos. Bezos is still involved. So if it were a bunch of second tier founders or something I'd say well they'll get eaten by AI. But he's not the guy who gets eaten by AI. He's the guy who eats AI. So there's no way to know if the AI threat

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to Amazon will be bigger than the robot thing will be big. But something really big is happening at Amazon. Either way, whatever it is, it's really big. And then they've got the Amazon servers, the cloud, the AWS thing they've got to fix. But I'm sure they'll get a handle on that. All right. So that's clear enough. So the lesson is look for things that happen only once, but make sure you don't ig…

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