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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…

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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? I feel like that might be an attractive option.

So I guess the last time this came up, the Democrat AGs fought against it in court and won. To which I say, what was their objection to it? Why did the Democrats' AGs not want competition? In what world is competition a bad thing? Well, it must be just somebody was making money. Yeah, it had to be the usual. Some kind of corruption or something.

But now that the Republicans have control of Congress, there's some thought that it could get passed. So maybe if that was the only thing that Trump did for healthcare, how much of a difference would it make? Maybe a lot. By a lot, I would say 20%. I mean, it's not going to turn it upside down, but you could get probably a solid 20%.

Well, Trump is doubling down on his anti-Biden auto pen stuff. And he wants to make sure that everybody who got a pardon knows that it's canceled. I've got a problem with this. I got a problem. You know, there is a constitutional ban against double jeopardy. So you can't be tried for the same thing twice if the first time you got off, right? And we all understand that to be fair, don't we? Don't you think that's fair? If you've been tried for something once and you were found not guilty, it's not really cool to try you again. It just seems fair.

But what happens if you got an autopen pardon or commutation and then the next president tries to take it away? Doesn't that feel a little double jeopardy-ish? To me it does. So as much as I think people like Fauci and whoever else need to be responsible for what they allegedly did, I don't know what they did or didn't do, but it feels like people should be responsible for any bad things they did. On the other hand, it's really double jeopardy-ish. I just don't know if I want to be part of a system that can tell somebody, "All right, you're safe. Go live your life." And then next president comes in and says, "Oh no. You have to go back to jail."

Are there people who will be literally put back in jail because of the autopen? That's not cool. You know, even if I don't like those people and even if I think they got away with murder, I don't know. I don't think anybody has been put back in jail because of it yet. But how would you feel watching somebody being handcuffed and taken back to jail after they thought that all their problems were over and they'd been pardoned? It wouldn't be a good feeling, but I imagine there are a few really bad characters that maybe would.

Now, there is an allegation that maybe the Biden people sold some of the pardons or commutations or clemency or whatever the hell that's called. But I don't think we've seen evidence of that and I don't think we would necessarily even if it were true. So I'm uncomfortable with that, but I understand why it's being done.

Let's see. Scott Jennings apparently spent some time with President Trump and there was some report that Trump fell asleep during a cabinet meeting. Is that true? How in the world could it be true that Trump fell asleep during a cabinet meeting and there's no video of it? Was there a part of the meeting where it was not videoed? I don't know. Seems like we'd be seeing that all over the news if that were true. But they say he dozed off.

Now, I wouldn't care. If somebody dozes off in a meeting that's so boring that anybody would doze off, I don't really care. Do you? I feel like if your job is going from one meeting to another and you sleep four hours a night and one of these is just so boring you fall asleep, I don't want you impeached over that. I just think you should have shorter meeting

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s or have somebody sitting next to you to wake you up. But it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But Scott Jennings is pushing back on that. "I saw the man a few days ago in the Oval Office for about an hour. He looked and sounded fine. Wide range of issues. People were coming and going. It was bustling. He was listening attentively and running the entire three-hour marathon cabinet meeting…

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