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certain areas such as defense. So it looks like step one is to get Greenland to vote for their own independence. Do you believe that our CIA, if it worked hard to co-opt the influential people in Greenland, we could basically bribe every politician in Greenland in about five minutes because there aren't many. So between what the CIA could do to bribe people plus what they could do to threaten peop…

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he strongest voice accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one. What is it we've learned about Democrat strategy? Well we've learned that they literally, this is not a joke, they literally accuse you of whatever they're doing. So the fact that Tim Walz made such a big deal of accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one, that does strongly suggest that he was the corrupt, meaning Tim Walz was. And it's hard for me to believe that Tim Walz was not in on at least some of the corruption because he's also being accused by credible people of moving against whistleblowers. So at the same time that he was accusing Elon Musk of being corrupt, he was frying whistleblowers in his own state who were the ones who would have outed him and others for being the corrupt ones.

So just hold in your mind for a moment that Newsom and Tim Walz are two of the most prominent Democrats. And I would say almost certainly they have a lot to answer for. A lot to answer for.

Anyway, I don't know if I even care about this next story, but Israel approved 19 new settlements. Obviously they're trying to make it impossible to have a two-state settlement, but that is no surprise. And I guess Israel is bombing and attacking Hezbollah and Beirut. They think they're very close to completely destroying the military of Hezbollah. So that's just more of the same.

I will remind you that Israel is not my country. So I observe what they do. It's not up to me to approve it or to deny it. It's not my country. So I simply observe if it affects America then I get involved.

So according to the University of Minnesota there's been a breakthrough in lab-grown spinal cords. So apparently they use 3D printing to create a structure that stem cells can be attached to that become lab-grown tissues that can repair nerve fibers in spinal cords. I might need that. Apparently the problem with repairing nerve cells is that you can't control them when they're growing and you need them to be sort of on a straight path. But I think the 3D printing allows you to take the lab-grown cells and put them in a path that connects broken tissues or broken nerve endings. I guess that might be exactly what I need to walk someday. So hurry up. Hurry up.

So the national debt's going to approach a trillion dollars in just interest payments. And I saw somebody estimate that we're doomed by 2035, which is longer than I would have expected. And I always wonder why we're not more worried about debt because it seems like the biggest problem that's coming. But then I wonder is the reason that we don't obsess about our debt problem because the only things we ever obsess about are things that some billionaire with dark money makes us think is the top priority. Do you ever wonder about that? With all the problems in the world, how do we decide which are the big ones that we talk about and address? I don't think it's because of the big ones. I think it's because nothing becomes a big story, whether it's climate change or anything else, unless there's some gigantic big money, dark money thing driving the story. And I don't think any of them are driving the story about our debt is too high. That's like there's no billionaire who is putting money on that story. So that might be why we don't worry about it as much. We just haven't been trained to worry about it as much as we should.

But I do wonder if Elon Musk is right that in the AI and robot future which is coming up fast that that will make money worthless because everybody will have everything for free. The robots and the AI will just do all the hard work and we will just enjoy the abundance. Now if that's true, does that give us some kind of escape path from debt because money wouldn't mean anything? So even if you said, "Hey, we're going to cancel our debt. We're not going to pay you back." That even the people who owned

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the debt would say, "Oh, sure, whatever." You know, you can pay me back, but the money isn't worth anything because everything's free. So that's pretty optimistic. I can't quite get there. That's a lot of optimism, but it's not impossible. And I don't want to bet against Elon Musk's view. That's always a bad idea. But I wonder in a related story, you know, Scott Bessent is pushing the Trump accou…

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