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paraplegics but they have a Neuralink implant so that they can actually be on the battlefield without being on the battlefield. They just use their Neuralink connection to see what the drone sees or see what the robot sees.

Now a question will be if the Neuralink, I'm sorry if the Tesla robots, Optimus, suppose they're the best ones and inexpensive, will they be available to the military or will Tesla say we will not sell these to the military? But what if the military said we will buy a million of them? Well, maybe. So yeah, I have a real question whether the robots will ever be militarized or will Elon just say, "I don't want to be in that business. Use some other robot." I feel like maybe he will not want to be part of that. But I don't know.

Well, the New York Times has joined others in debunking the Washington Post story that alleged that Secretary Hegseth ordered the killing of survivors on one of those narco boats in September. So the New York Times says, "Nope, not true." How many of you already knew that wasn't true because you had learned how to detect fake news from me? This one had all of the signs. All of the signs for fake news that was there.

Number one, the story fit the Democrat narrative perfectly. Oh, so six people are complaining about the risk of illegal orders being followed by the military. And then coincidentally, there's a big national story about some military people who may have allegedly done some illegal things by following orders. That is what we call too on the nose. So clue number one was fake news. Too on the nose.

And the timing was kind of coincidentally perfect for something that happened in September and we waited until now. All right. Number two, it came from the Washington Post. Well, assumed to be a non-legitimate news source when it comes to deep state Democrat stuff. Maybe not in general, you know, the other news might be fine. But when it comes to politics, that would be one of the least credible sources. So that would be clue number two. Too on the nose and it's the Washington Post.

What would be the third thing? The third thing is it's always two. They always tell you they're two anonymous whistleblowers. Now, if they had been non-anonymous and we could all talk to them, maybe. But if they're anonymous, Washington Post, too on the nose, no, we did not need to wait for the New York Times to debunk this. We were all there first.

So how does it feel to know what the future is? That's what happened. Those of you that I've trained to spot fake news, as soon as you saw that, you said a number of people told me as soon as I saw it, your training kicked in, Scott, and I knew it was fake news. Yep. So you're welcome.

Anyway, speaking of eggs, he's announced, I don't know that this is new, but that the US is going for drone dominance. So we've got to be the bestest, biggest military drone maker to stay safe. Almost nothing else will matter except drones. And we can't afford to shoot down cheap drones with expensive missiles. So we're going to have to match the cheapness of what will be coming at us if there's a war.

My question is this. How many of our drones that we make, and we're looking to make a gazillion of them and be able to make more than anybody else. So the only way that's going to happen is if they're being made by robots. So we'll have to have Tesla robots working in factories or other robots making drones like crazy. But will they be software upgradable? Probably. That's probably the main difference will be the software upgrades, but there will be other hardware upgrades too.

All right. ABC News says that the wealth of the top 1% of Americans is now a record 52 trillion. Wow. So if you confiscated most of the wealth of wealthy Americans, if you just took it all, you would be able to pay off our national debt. So how do you think the national debt will be paid off? Do you think it will be paid off by the poor people? No.

Will it be paid off by a tremendous amount of economic activity from robots? Well, that's what Elon Musk thinks. He thinks the only way out to pay off our national debt is to have such a gigantic increase in economic activity that that 32 trillion or 39 trillion debt doesn't look so big anymore. Maybe that plus inflation could be.

But here's the good news. Even though the richest got richer by 10% recently, the bottom half also did well. They increased their wealth by 6%. Well, that's not bad. A 6% increase. But I'll bet it doesn't feel like they increased their wealth because everything costs more, right? Not everything.

Well, speaking of everything costing more, Rand Paul is reviving a plan that I guess Democrat AGs shot down the last time it came up. It's a plan to allow health insurance to be sold through Costco, Amazon, and Sam's Club. Now if I understand the idea here, if you allow those entities in particular, because they're so big, Costco, Amazon, and Sam's Club, if you allow them to compete in the insurance business, the competition would drive the cost down.

Now, do you think that's true? Do you think that that would be enough? All you have to do is let these big cost-conscious companies that are really good at driving costs down. If you let them compete with each other, will that drive down the cost of healthcare? It feels like it's worth a try, right? I don't really see the downside. But I don't know how much of a difference that would make or how quickly. I suspect it would not be fast.

But I also wonder if Amazon has not announced that it wants to be directly in the healthcare business, not just the insurance business, but in the providing healthcare. Part of it makes sense because there's a lot of h

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ealthcare stuff that really depends on something being delivered to you, right? Like you need some crutches, you need a pill. A lot of it is just something has to be delivered. So Amazon's the obvious one to do that. Would you buy your health insurance from Amazon if they provided the insurance, but they also provided some fast same-day service for all the medical things that you continually need…

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