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I saw a post from Balaji Srinivasan, one of the smartest people in the world, who was noting that I think it's some kind of Chinese company now has an electric charger for your car. The company is BYD. So I'll take a fact check on that, but I think it's a Chinese company. They now have in production. So this is not in the laboratory. This is actually in the field. They've got chargers for electric…

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o you think that the United States is capable of building an entirely new designed we'll call it a battleship class, but it's going to be different from a battleship. Do you think they can build that in two and a half years? I don't know. I just suspect we don't have that capability.

But we'll talk about in a minute that Trump is going to be pushing the CEOs to learn how to build faster because that's our competitive disadvantage. I think we're slow builders. We are slow slow builders. You think we can? Maybe we can.

So let's talk about some stories that I don't know if they're fake or true. But that'll be the fun. All right. Fake or true.

There's a story that Kash Patel had in the FBI just spent some of our tax money to update a quote custom fleet of armored BMW X5s for him to ride around in. Now the claim and here you have to decide if this is real or fake. The claim is that he just wanted cooler cars and so he spent our money unnecessarily to give himself a fleet of X5s.

Now until this week that was the car I drove. At the moment I don't drive a car so I don't think I'll be driving a car again. But it's the car I chose and I chose it specifically because it does not scream out luxury. It's very functional. It's a high-end car, but it's the most functional without being over the top, you know, showy. So that's why I like it. You know, it didn't draw attention to me.

But their claim is that, you know, he's loving it for being a cool car and that also is, you know, it's a foreign car and he's being accused of, wait, why would you buy a foreign car? Now remember, these would be armored special security cars. They wouldn't be normal cars. Why would you do that?

All right, here's the counte

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rpoint. The counterpoint is we're talking about four cars. So when they call it a fleet, well maybe it's a fleet, but it's four. And somebody also claims that that is a typical way they update security fleets that they would do them all at once because the last batch of them were wearing out about the same time. So if you buy them all at once, the next time you have to update it, well, you would d…

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