Blake
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Use Grok to find, for example, like obviously those PPP loans that happened during COVID. That's huge amounts. Huge amounts of fraud. And you can almost like make an example out of it. Find like 10 really glaring examples and, you know, perp walk them. That would be good moral support for the American people.
Especially size, like... This came up, we were talking about the other day, where they're trying to make a scandal out of the VA's budget. And there's talk, okay, Trump might make cuts to the VA. Well, it would be cuts to the number of people who worked at the VA in 2019. You know, it's... Which was when Trump was president.
Especially size, like... This came up, we were talking about the other day, where they're trying to make a scandal out of the VA's budget. And there's talk, okay, Trump might make cuts to the VA. Well, it would be cuts to the number of people who worked at the VA in 2019. You know, it's... Which was when Trump was president.
Trump was president, and he'd also already done big improvements to the VA at that time. Like, it was working pretty well. And since then, we have a lower number of veterans. The number of veterans is declining.
Trump was president, and he'd also already done big improvements to the VA at that time. Like, it was working pretty well. And since then, we have a lower number of veterans. The number of veterans is declining.
It's painful to cut. The thing about cuts is someone has to be a loser when you reduce spending. Washington fears any sort of pain.
It's painful to cut. The thing about cuts is someone has to be a loser when you reduce spending. Washington fears any sort of pain.
Power is their life force. You're always the bad guy if you're the one who has to come in and say the endless money train is going away. I don't blame them for being wary to the extent that they want to get re-elected, but at the same time, Well, a huge amount of public trust has been put has been invested in the well-being of the nation, the well-being of the nation.
Power is their life force. You're always the bad guy if you're the one who has to come in and say the endless money train is going away. I don't blame them for being wary to the extent that they want to get re-elected, but at the same time, Well, a huge amount of public trust has been put has been invested in the well-being of the nation, the well-being of the nation.
And it's offensive that you have to worry, like wonder, are they just going to keep spending until finally the hot potato explodes? And then that person takes all the blame. And it seems a lot of Washington has made that calculation. You could say that we are on the verge of a fiscal collapse. All I will say is I have never heard of a country that just borrowed forever and got away with it.
And it's offensive that you have to worry, like wonder, are they just going to keep spending until finally the hot potato explodes? And then that person takes all the blame. And it seems a lot of Washington has made that calculation. You could say that we are on the verge of a fiscal collapse. All I will say is I have never heard of a country that just borrowed forever and got away with it.
Eventually a debt comes due.
Eventually a debt comes due.
It's really scary because when you think like for example the Ukraine war a big reason actually that you know Ukraine hasn't collapsed actually is they could just get insanely cheap like drones on each end and it makes it like so hard to advance because you can just fly like a suicide drone bomb into something. And you kind of wonder, we spend a trillion dollars on our military.
It's really scary because when you think like for example the Ukraine war a big reason actually that you know Ukraine hasn't collapsed actually is they could just get insanely cheap like drones on each end and it makes it like so hard to advance because you can just fly like a suicide drone bomb into something. And you kind of wonder, we spend a trillion dollars on our military.
We have a ton of tanks, a ton of ships, a ton of planes. And it could be that the future of warfare is, oh, you can make a drone about yay big for a thousand bucks and it can carry a bomb wherever you want and just explode. And it is changing warfare as we changing warfare changes security because, you know, imagine imagine like the Secret Service.
We have a ton of tanks, a ton of ships, a ton of planes. And it could be that the future of warfare is, oh, you can make a drone about yay big for a thousand bucks and it can carry a bomb wherever you want and just explode. And it is changing warfare as we changing warfare changes security because, you know, imagine imagine like the Secret Service.
And now instead of having to look for a sniper, any robot could just, you know, put a rifle on it and it can fly anywhere.
And now instead of having to look for a sniper, any robot could just, you know, put a rifle on it and it can fly anywhere.
Just the biggest limiter on terrorism of all sorts has always just been not that many people want to do it. But especially if you can do it with machines like it becomes easy, like at least in the past, doing something really bad was kind of a suicide thing. But now it doesn't even have to be that you can build a machine that does it.