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t it would be discovered that the redactions could be reversed." What do you think? Do you think that somebody cleverly and intentionally made the redactions reversible or do you think it was purely a didn't do it right and didn't notice? Well, you know, we're tempted to believe in conspiracy theories. So I know a lot of you think it was intentional. I'm going to put the Dilbert filter, as I like…

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much volume they do. Perhaps they've reached some kind of volume thing. But you know, it's not just military drones. I wonder who's making the non-military drones.

Well, over in Belgium, apparently 73% of the children and teens in Brussels have a non-EU migration background and only 10.5% are Belgians of Belgian origin. So basically, Belgium is now no longer Belgium. Now, maybe that's good, maybe that's bad. I don't know any Belgian people, but Belgium really just went away. You could argue not yet, Scott, but it's guaranteed. I mean, if 73% of your children were not Belgian, you just have to wait and your country will look completely different. Will it be better or will it be worse? I don't know. I'm not there. Not my country. But it will give you a glimpse of what might be happening with the rest of Europe.

Well, there's an Israeli defense minister who says, believe it or not, that the Israeli military will never leave Gaza. So they never plan to withdraw their military from Gaza. Is anybody surprised by that? So apparently the peace deal with Hamas said that Hamas would give up their weapons. I think he said that and that Israel would remove its military. It looks like neither of them are going to do that. I don't think Hamas gave up his weapons and surrendered. And I never thought that Israel would give up its military control of Gaza. So what are the odds of a two-state solution? Is in my imagination or is the idea of a two-state solution never more than something to talk about because there is never a chance of it happening? Was there ever did any of you ever have a time where you thought, you know what, I think that two-state solution might actually happen?

Now that's independent from whether you want it to happen. We're not talking about whether you think it's a good idea or a bad idea. I'm just saying it's not really even possible because there's zero chance that Israel would ever go for that. So it feels like just something you say when you're negotiating, well, you know, if we do this or that, we'll be getting closer to a two-state solution. But meanwhile, they're going hog wild on building settlements, and there's not really any chance that could happen, is there?

So well, anyway, I remind you that I'm neither pro nor anti-Israel. I simply observe. And sometimes they do things that look like they would work from their perspective. And sometimes maybe they do things that I don't know why they do them. But it's not my job to tell Israel what's good for Israel. And it's not their job to tell America what's good for America. So I'll definitely give you opinions on American policy, but other countries just observe. Sometimes predict because that's fun. But I only care about America. It's not that I don't care. That's going too far. If Israel is doing a good job of taking care of Israel, my impression of that is, hey, good job. Everybody should do a good job of taking care of the country. If part of their doing a good job is that it creates some situations that America doesn't like, then we should address that. But I don't disrespect them for doing a good job influencing people. They want influence. I could not like it, but I observe it.

Speaking of Israel, there's an Israeli company that found a breakthrough that could reverse paralysis. So apparently has something to do with neural tissues. And it's a biotech company called Matricelf and they've got this new spinal cord tissue that they grow from the patient's own cells and then they somehow squirt it back into you and you can regrow your nerve cells that had been damaged.

Listen to this. Do you believe this? We generate stem cells from the patient's tissue. Then the fatty tissue provides a scaffolding material that allows the cells to form functional neural networks. Now I told you about another company that was doing this with 3D printing. So they would 3D print the scaffolding. This doesn't mention 3D printing, but anyway. So apparently they've successfully tested this on paralyzed rats. Listen to this next part. They've tested it on paralyzed rats which were able to walk and run within days of treatment. What? What? Are you telling me that they really took paralyzed rats and unparalyzed them within days? They just squirted their own stem cells in there and had some kind of scaffolding and within days. I don't believe that it doesn't it take like two months for nerves to even regrow. Yeah. A little bit optimistic. But anyway, I'm waiting in line behind the rats. Soon as all the rats are fixed, I'm hoping they'll do me next.

Well, there's a publication called The Conversation in which Frank Furedi is asking, "Is democracy always about truth and why we may need to loosen our views to heal our divisions?" So what do you think? Do you think that democracy could survive truth? I don't.

Do you remember when Ben Shapiro was famous for saying that the facts don't care about your feelings? And then I wrote my book Win Bigly and I tried to correct that notion by saying the feelings don't care about your facts. Both of those are kind of true, but it's more predictive. The feelings don't care about your facts. But just imagine what would happen to democracy if we knew the truth about everything. Your first instinct is, well, that'd be better. Wouldn't it be great we knew the truth? You c

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ouldn't handle the truth or to go further, democracy itself, it can't handle the truth. If you actually knew what was happening with your money, if you actually knew what the real data was, you probably would not be in a happy place. So my take on the world is that there are functional lies, there's functional propaganda, and sometimes you need that to hold the country together. For example, is i…

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