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ld be that there are insiders in Iran who are ready to take over and make a deal with the US. It could be that Trump just always takes the strongest play. I've been telling you this for a while. If there are a couple of ways to go on any topic, he picks the one that's the strongest. And the strongest would be to say we'll weigh in militarily. So I have to say I'm not optimistic that there will be…

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ferent states have different standards for what is ultraprocessed. So in one city ultraprocessed means one thing. In another state it means another. But they're looking to get some kind of a federal standard, which you would sort of need. If you're going to have a standard for food, you would need it to be federal. Will the states disagree? And will the states say stay away from our state, we have our own food standard maybe. I don't know. But I do wonder if the FDA can do this now without the undue influence of big food because the food companies obviously are going to weigh in, they have a big influence. Is this only because it's a Trump administration? Is that the only reason that they can even maybe have a chance of good food guidelines? Mostly I think they're going to get rid of additives and food coloring and stuff like that, but there might be a lot more. If you thought about it, if the only thing that the Trump administration accomplished, the only thing, was to improve the guidelines for food and the testing of meds, that would be pretty successful because those have, especially food, such a leverage effect on everything else. You know, if you get your food right, presumably your health care costs go down, right? So you get a lot done if you can just take care of the food.

Well, on X a gentleman named Kevin Bass did some number crunching and he found out that states that have no effective voter ID requirements average nearly eight times more welfare benefits to illegal immigrants compared to states that require voter ID verification. So it is literally the case that states are importing and paying illegals for votes. And Elon Musk weighed in and said yes, it's the biggest crime in American history. I think he means the larger crime of essentially paying people to come into this country and then shipping them in so you could control the vote. I'm not sure which part is illegal, but it does feel like the biggest crime in American history. So imagine if Elon Musk didn't exist. So I just gave you a whole spee

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ch about Trump as the only person who could have attacked the fraud effectively. But I don't think even that would have happened without DOGE and without Elon putting his finger on that button continuously. So somebody told me that the Nick Shirley account which blew up and became a giant thing was primarily because Elon boosted him. Is that true? I was trying to understand why since 2018 local n…

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