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a really bad night. Now, some people can do it, but I think they're unusual people. So yes, of course marijuana reduces alcohol consumption. Well, OpenAI's Sam Altman apparently has put out a memo to his staff, sort of a red alert. It's being called Code Red. Code Red. And it was a company-wide memo among the OpenAI staff telling them that they're kind of falling behind the competition, the Wall…

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dual citizen in. But wouldn't it be cleaner and easier if you just said you can be a dual citizen, but if you run for office, you just can't do it. You've got to be an American citizen, not just for the presidency but for every elected office. I'd be fine with that.

And then people can choose. You know, if you really need to be a senator, you better be our senator, right? If you need to be a House of Representatives, you just got to be our House of Representatives. But for an ordinary person, I don't know how many dual citizenship people there are in the whole country. It's not a lot, is it? It's not like the immigrants are coming over with dual citizenship. I think it's kind of a rare situation, like 1 percent or something. So I wouldn't worry too much about just ordinary citizens, but definitely don't want my elected people to be dual citizens.

Here's a story that you almost could have guessed that this was going to happen. So you know Senator Mark Kelly. He's one of the six people we call the seditious six, who did the video telling the people in the armed forces to be careful about any illegal orders. Now we find out that he's — of course we already knew he had a twin brother — but his twin brother is allegedly, according to the Amuse account on X, that's where I first saw it, apparently he had been hired to help Zelensky propagandize America and maybe more than America. So he was part of some NGO kind of funded sketchy thing.

They used a USAID funded infrastructure. So it wasn't direct USAID but it was a USAID funded infrastructure. But it looks like maybe this was based on donations, not based on tax dollars. But that's not the important point here. The important point is that he raised $2.72 billion for the purposes of helping Zelensky and Ukraine.

Now, the fact that his brother is a senator, does that bother you? Especially his twin brother. Well, you know, if it's all disclosed and it's legal, there's no crime involved. But didn't you know without actually knowing, didn't you know that Mark Kelly and/or his brother probably were up to their neck in something that you wouldn't love? Didn't it feel like that was just going to happen? That if he waited long enough, there would be a story about either he or his br

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other or a spouse or some damn thing that had been maybe not doing anything illegal but had their nose in stuff that makes you a little uncomfortable. Sure enough, there it is. And apparently the organization he was running tried to sell themselves as fact checkers and anti-corruption efforts but really it was just a propaganda engine to support Ukraine. So I'm going to call that not ideal. Proba…

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