But when I look at it, I think, yeah, that's we just had to do it while we still could. You don't want the cartels getting bigger and you didn't want Venezuela to be more of a hub of anti-Americanism. So it was time.

Anyway, I'm still fascinated by the impact it will have on other countries. I think it makes it more likely that Iran will fall. I don't know that it's most likely. Iran might be able to get through their current problems. But in terms of will it have an impact? Probably. It probably has an impact on their psychology.

If you were the Iranian protesters, what would you want to hear? You would want to hear that the US just toppled the country and then you'd think, wait a minute, Trump just said he'd do that for us. So that would theoretically embolden the protesters in Iran.

In a similar way, there are reports now that the Ayatollah and maybe 20 of his top people and family are planning maybe as their escape plan to go to Russia if everything falls. Now remember, fog of war, propaganda, CIA. What are the odds that that's a real report? Well, now I wouldn't say we know what his plans are. Maybe we do. So there's some doubt there.

But if again if you're a protester and you hear a report that the leader has picked an escape plan, wouldn't you try a little harder because you say to yourself, "Wait a minute, he's got an escape plan. Maybe we're almost at the breaking point." So I see that as the report about him leaving for Russia. I see that as maybe true, might be true, but it's just as likely that the story is planted because planting that story would be very good for the protesters.

Anyway, I guess Greenland is getting nervous and Greenland is nervous because they say that quote, let's see, this is a prime minister of Denmark and said recently the United States has no right to annex one of the three countries in the Commonwealth. So Greenland being one of the three countries.

Now do you think it's about rights? Do you think that Trump would not move against Greenland because he doesn't have the right? This goes back to Eric Weinstein's comment that there might not be international law at all. It's really just about power. So I think it's hilarious that they're using rights as any kind of defense.

And by the way, as far as I know the US would be happy just having some arrangement that gives us some kind of control but not necessarily annexing it. But Greenland, they're worried.

So I guess Trump recently posted a chart that showed that 72% of US Somali households are on welfare. So that's the kind of report that makes it easier to deport a lot of people. So I don't know if that data is true or not, but if you hear that data, you're like, "Oh, you know, even I'm against immigration now," even if you were in favor of it before. So I would imagine that even Democrats would have a problem with three-quarters of the Somali households being on welfare they're paying for and welfare that might go broke.

Sip.

As I often tell you, I like it when people who know more than I do are sort of on the same opinion as me. And here's a case in point. So General Flynn just posted that Trump in his interrogation of Maduro should hone in on stolen elections.

Now do you remember Sidney Powell and the Kraken and her wild claims? It seemed like wild claims at the time that Venezuela was somehow involved in rigging the machines and rigging the election. And that became so unbelievable to the public that she was sort of disgraced temporarily. Temporarily.

But now at least in my bubble I'm hearing reports that all the Kraken was true. Now the Kraken was the idea that Venezuela was involved in developing election machines that we used and other countries used. First they developed it for their own elections to rig them. This is the claim. And then the US used them to rig our elections in 2020. And that all of that is known because of a particular whistleblower.

So now there's a whistleblower that keeps popping up and the whistleblower is this Leamsy Salazar and I guess he had at some point been in the Venezuelan operation or at least he knew about the operation and that it was in fact a big op with machines that rigged elections.

Now that's what's happening in your bubble too, right? Most of you are in the same bubble I am. But there's some pushback and the pushback is that there's exactly one whistleblower and apparently there is reason not to believe him. Now I'm not the expert on this but as Stephen McIntyre pointed out — who's no expert on this domain but he's an expert on other domains — but he points out that there's reason to not believe the whistleblower and there's no physical evidence.

And so I will caution you again that although it seems very believable to me and I've listened to Patrick Byrne's full explanation, you should listen to him if you want more on that. So in my bubble it feels almost proven that the Venezuelan connection to the machines was important, but it really isn't fully proven. So I warn you not to get too excited.

But then when I see General Flynn, who obviously knows more about this world than I do, say that they should hone in on the stolen elections angle, I say to myself, well, okay, now I'm taking it seriously, but be careful. We are below the level of confirmed reporting. We're not up to confirmed. We're up to "whoa, that looks like it could be real," which is bad enough.

Well, I believe this has now been confirmed that Governor Tim Walz is going to drop his reelection bid. Probably because of all the Somali probe reports. Now when I see that, I say to myself, my God, that must be the white supremacy that got him. You know, he's always complaining about the white supremacy. So I think that's what's happening here. The white supremacists, who we don't know anything about, have conspired to make it impossible for him to run for reelection.

But independent reporter, I think that's the right tag, Nick Sortor, is already outside of, or at least he was filming outside of Tim Walz's residence, and he wrote this on his post on X. This is the funniest thing that you could hear today. So Nick Sortor says, "Leaking. We are live outside Tim Walz's residence, anxiously awaiting the smoke to rise from the governor's mansion's chimney, signaling a new has been elected." Signaling a new has