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y tried to get across the Mexican border, the Venezuelans would probably, you know, we've already stopped them. Excuse me while I take a sip from my awesome water thermos bottle that will make you wish you had one. So if you're just joining, I'm using my NPR ASMR voice to conserve my energy so I can go as long as possible. Probably won't go more than 20 minutes, but we'll see. All right. So it…

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ator Ruben Gallego said on video recently in some interview I guess and allegedly he admitted that there was an external script, that the script for the video he had seen it, it came from some external source. But Grok says that's fake news. Grok says there is no such thing as Ruben Gallego admitting there was a third party script. That just didn't happen and that it was a misinterpretation of something he did say, but there's no evidence that he said it came from an external source.

Now I don't doubt that there's more than one entity that's putting out the same message. But then I asked Grok, "So why would these six people put out this video if not to try to create some kind of an insurrection or cause chaos or take over the government or something else?" And here's what Grok said. Grok said it's most likely that the Democrats are legitimately afraid of Trump trying to go full dictator and issuing illegal orders.

And so Grok believes that these seditious six were actually patriots who are legitimately concerned that Trump is at least teasing or moving toward some more authoritarian situation and that they would like to reduce the chances that he could succeed at that. And so they're warning the troops, hey, watch out. You know, he might actually try something that's legitimately illegal and you're going to have to step up.

Now what do you think? Do you think it's more likely that some external entity was behind it all? And who would that be? Or do you think that every Democrat is afraid, literally every Democrat is afraid that Trump might exceed his legal domain and try to get the military to do something illegal? And it might be illegal in terms of war, might be illegal in terms of immigration, could be illegal in terms of anything I guess.

So what sounds more likely to you? That the Democrats are legitimately afraid and some of them said hey let's do something about it to inoculate. So the word that Grok used was inoculate. So the idea was to simply get the military thinking about how they would handle a situation that looked unambiguously illegal to them.

I would say at this point the third party connection is unproven. I don't think you need a third party if every Democrat is really thinking the same thing. And you know Trump keeps teasing about a third term. And if you're a Democrat, you're going to take that seriously. You know, I think Republicans laugh at the third term thing because it looks like Trump's just playing with them, but they're the ones being played with. So they might be thinking it's real.

I'm going to say on this one the only thing I think is proven is that there's more than one Democrat who thinks Trump might be breaking the law sometime soon. So if there is a connection to some shadowy external source, I don't think that's quite proven yet. Could be, though. Could be.

All right. Next story. I saw in The Independent Hannah Arhirova is writing that Russian drones are targeting civilians and turning one Ukrainian city into what they called a human safari. So apparently in Kherson allegedly there are hundreds of Russian drones a day that are hunting for civilians that just happen to go outdoors.

Does that sound real to you? Keep in mind that all reports from a war zone are a little sketchy. Do you believe that one? Do you believe that in Kherson there are hundreds of attacks on civilians? And if they are, let's say it was true, why would Russia do that? Why

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would it use drones to attack civilians? I will sip from my awesome thing while you think about that. Would they be doing it if it's happening at all? Are they trying to depopulate the city? Are they trying to get people to move so for what? So it'd be easier to take over the city? One theory is that they were just practicing and that they just use it for target practice to train the drone opera…

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