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he'd have a good chance in Florida courts. Maybe that's true. But it's interesting to see somebody associated with the left being concerned about judge shopping. Yeah. So will we learn? Oh, my cat is eating my charge cord. I have to get that out of the way. No, that's not a cat toy. You cannot eat the charging cord. All right. So that would suggest that John Brennan is in trouble because we know…

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because you won't remember this topic in a few years, but you'll definitely remember that Trump is always the strongest player in every game and that gives him an advantage in negotiating and leadership and everything else. So if they don't do what I'm going to suggest right now, it's not a mistake. It's just a different way to handle it.

All right. So one way they could go is too bad. Too bad. They shouldn't have been in prison. Here's what I would do. I would say, you know, that's a pretty good point. Things look worse than we thought. And we're going to talk to them. Talk to El Salvador because we have a good relationship with them. And we'll see if there's some reforms that need to be taken.

So if you first admit that there's some abuse at the prison, nobody's going to really be upset about that because I'll bet you even American prisons, well, I know for sure American prisons are full of abuse. Do you think there's nothing happening to American prisoners? I mean, I hear stories about the prison guards in America creating fights just for the Roman entertainment, right? You've heard the stories yourself, right? So if you have a prison, you also have prisoners getting tortured. It just feels like it's built into every prison system. Nobody wants it. I'm not in favor of it. I would be far happier if all that abuse were removed from the system. But it is a fact that if you have a prison, there is torture. It's just a fact.

So if I were the administration, I would say, thank you for that story. We're going to look into it. And I'll just move on. And I do think they should look into it. I do think that they should say to our El Salvadorian leader, not ours, but you know that they should tell him to figure that out. It's not our problem to solve, but they should tell him to solve it. And I think he could.

Anyway, according to the Post Millennial, Trump's approval numbers have rebounded and he's allegedly up to 50% approval rating. I don't believe that, but you know, polls are all over the place and I'm not sure they're useful at this point in any cycle, but just so you know, there's at least one poll that says his approval is higher than it has been for the last three months. I don't know. Don't believe it. It's not that I don't believe he's popular. It's that polls in general are just a little bit hard to believe in the middle of a cycle.

All right. The Pentagon has apparently signed an agreement with Elon Musk's company xAI to deploy Grok, that would be the AI across three million military and civilian personnel. So again I asked now I guess this is a special version of Grok and a lot of military and civilian personnel have i

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t but it's impact level five. I don't know what that is but it sounds serious. Impact level five and that it enables secure handling of controlled unclassified information in daily workflows. Now here's the thing. Is it safe to have AI in the military context already? Because I told you my story about Grok hallucinating about me. Pretty fairly simple fact about me. Can we safely deploy a hallucin…

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