Emerald Robinson

But I mean, we don't think so.

If you look at the timeline and how it's happening, it feels like that we're now in what you could say is a kind of war where the talent is the target.

Scientists, as Brandon describes, they're not just assets.

They're a critical strategic domain.

And China's went for our scientists in the past in more of the way of bribery and coercion, right?

Their thousand talents program.

There was the case of the Harvard scientist Lieberman, who was found to have been working with China and had been taking money from China.

But this is kind of like the next step in this, right?

Where they might actually be

offing our scientists um and the timing is interesting some people say well why now you know what has happened you know that this would up the ante and that you'd actually get perhaps two countries taking out each other's top tier military scientists well we did strike iran

And it really is in some ways a backdoor proxy war with China.

So I think the timing of this, this happening since June of 2025, is noteworthy.

How do we come to trust our electoral processes that we have to go to paper ballots?

And we're running out of time to do that.

Get rid of the machines.

I know President Trump, he did sign the recent executive order as it relates to mail-in ballots.

And that's a great step.

It's a great step.

But it's nowhere near enough.

And I would just point you to what's already happening in the primaries in your state of California.