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ow something about fracking, something about geothermal and something about nuclear and ideally solar too although I think that's a little easier to understand. So not bad. I'd be pretty happy with somebody who has that much knowledge. I don't think that's as important in even jobs like defense. I think a general or a generic very smart person who's got the right intentions could do fine. There's…

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were down there, I'd be getting ready to retire right now because if Delta Force is hunting me bro I would be so terrified.

Now is that hyperbole? Because it seemed to me the cartels are quite aware of what violence looks like but mostly they're doing it against a competing cartel which of course they have some violence from. I don't know. Do how many of you think that the cartel would try to bring the pain to mainland America to see if they could get Delta Force or something off their back? Here's what I would suggest if I could give some advice to the cartels. If we come after you with the military it's going to be devastating to you. If you attack the United States citizens, let's say do some terrorist attack because you're trying to take the pressure off, it's going to be way worse. Because if you think we're pissed off now, just do a terrorist attack on mainland United States and then we'll take it to the ground. We'll do whatever it takes. Just one. Have you seen the United States? We only need one attack against us and we'll just go crazy. Have you heard of 9/11? We spent a trillion dollars after 9/11. Yeah.

So if anybody from the cartel is listening, if the Special Forces come after you you need to immediately try to make a deal. Either leave the country or try to make a deal but don't attack American citizens because that's not going to work out for you at all. Not even a little bit will that work out. So I can promise you that. So I don't know if this is going to happen. I do worry that Trump will get the talk you know where the Special Forces boss comes in and says you know we kind of have an arrangement with the cartel. I think that's what's going to happen. So if I had to predict I would predict that we will not use special forces against the cartels. I hate to say it but that's my prediction.

Thomas Massie and a lot of other people warning about the new aggression that Ukraine is showing toward Russia. And Biden has authorized these long-range stri

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kes of these long-range missiles that we provided to Ukraine and that authorized the use of them within Russia itself, which Russia says, the Kremlin says that means the United States or well NATO, that means that NATO is at war with Russia and they will act accordingly. Uh oh. Now you're worried about nuclear war and you're worried about this getting out of hand. Some have suggested that the rea…

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