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ategically important — so if one side conquered a city and occupied it while you were doing the negotiations, what would you do? Well, you might reflexively say, "I'm walking away. I'm not going to negotiate with you darned stealers of land. You're not taking it seriously." You could do that, but that would also be the end of the peace process. If you wanted to get a peace deal done but this happ…

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civilization, if the government tells you this is the one to believe, that's the one to not believe. But that's his idea. And he wants to do that to teach young people how to spot fake news. No, that's not what you're teaching them. You're teaching them to be fooled by fake news so long as it's the government-approved fake news. That's what this is.

And it makes you wonder, does Macron not know what he's doing? Does he not know that these official sites are going to be obviously propaganda? Does he not know that? I feel like he does know it. Because everybody in that position would know that. So this is a terrible idea. Terrible idea.

If you really wanted young people to be able to spot fake news, they should watch my podcast. They'd have to learn English or get it translated. But let me teach the young people in France how to spot fake news. You ready? This will be a little lesson so they won't have to look for what news sites are labeled trustworthy. I will teach them how to spot it. And all I have to do is tell you about the very next story that I was going to talk about anyway.

Did you know that the Washington Post is reporting that there are two anonymous whistleblowers that say that Pete Hegseth gave the order to kill the two survivors from a narco boat that our military blew up coming from Venezuela? Did you learn your lesson? It's in the Washington Post and there are two anonymous sources. And I could add that it's bad for Republicans. It's bad for Republicans.

So young people in France, if you're watching this, that's what fake news looks like. Now, I don't know what's true and what's not. So I like to put things in the frame of credible versus not credible. Maybe sometimes the Washington Post gets a story right and maybe sometimes they have anonymous sources who are completely legitimate. But if you ever see a story that's bad for Republicans, and weirdly not just bad for Republicans but bad for Republicans in a way that perfectly fits the narrative coming from the Democrats — you know, the narrative is that the military might be asked to do illegal things by the Trump administration — and then lo and behold by amazing coincidence at the exact time the narrative is being formed that maybe these illegal acts will be ordered, well, we've got a story in the Washington Post with two anonymous sources saying that something that looked sort of illegalish may have happened.

That's some fake-news-looking stuff. So again, I don't know what's true and what's not. But I could say that this is not a credible story. It's not credible. We don't know it's true, but we can certainly say that you should treat it like it's not true because it's just so not credible. Not even a little bit.

So let's see France do that. And the latest update on that story is that Hegseth was not directly involved in any orders at all. So he was not watching the action and saying, "Hey, you know, there's two guys that got away. Blast those two guys." So apparently that never happened or at least that's the counter to the allegation is that he wasn't involved at all. He did give orders for the attacks, but there were general orders. They were not about kill those survivors or anything like that. There was an admiral who was more directly involved. He was the direct leader of this and I don't know what his name is but apparently there was an admiral who if anybody gave any orders — and there's no indication that he gave the orders to kill those people, no indication of that — but if anybody did it would have been him, not Hegseth.

Do you believe that? Yeah. Well, that entire story seems to have taken over the news. So have you noticed that the Democrat narrative has successfully conquered all the news there? There's basically not a lot else happening, but we're going to talk about the seditious six. We're going to talk about Hegseth and Maduro and what legal or illegal things we're going to do. So that play has completely taken over the news and you don't do that unless it's a coordinated effort. In my opinion, that doesn't happen by itself.

So Elon Musk continues to make news. He did this one podcast and I still don't know who the host of it was. A recent interview with investor Nicole. Anyway, so one of the things that Elon said is that he's looking at creating what he's calling a galaxy mind, which would be shooting AI into space on satellites. So you'd have AI in space, but the tough part about AI is having enough energy. But apparently if you get your assets outside of Earth's cover and atmosphere, the amount of energy that you have access to directly from the sun is practically unlimited.

So the idea is they put some solar panels in space that would be super effective because they would be beyond the atmosphere and they would be toward the sun all day long instead of half the day. So you would have just enormous amounts of energy if you did it in space. So you essentially link together your satellites with their AI components and link it with the power that they're getting from the sun and you can build this enormous spacefaring data center that would be way smarter than anything you could ever do on Earth because on Earth you're always going to be bound by energy. But as soon as you take it out of the atmosphere, the sky's the limit, so to speak.

So Elon is basically saying that's where it's going because that's where the economics will drive it. And coincidentally the companies that he owns would have rockets fo

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r sending things to space. They would have the satellites. He's got the satellite business. He's got the Tesla engineering. He's got the AI that's also under his control. And all of those components and the solar stuff. He even has the solar panels that's under Tesla. So every part of this so-called galaxy mind he already has. So you don't have to wonder if this is going to happen. Elon says it's…

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