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Brazil's Supreme Court has unanimously
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uh voted to uphold a nationwide ban on
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Elon musk's act the social platform was
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suspended in Brazil late last week over
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concerns about disinformation and X's
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refusal to appoint a local legal
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representative elan's other companies
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are also impacted SpaceX has moved to
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evacuate workers from Brazil it's quite
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dramatic of them um and warned employees
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against traveling to the country
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starlink initially said they would defy
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the ban but later backtracked and is now
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complying starlink is is a division of
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SpaceX by the way um talk a little bit
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about this uh do you think the ban is
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Justified it will set a precedent for
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other uh countries deal with Elon now
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I'm going to tell say two things before
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we go because the Washington Post had
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the single stupidest editorial that I've
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seen of this you might agree with Elon
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on this one but he goes around the world
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and does censors when certain countries
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ask him to and doesn't when others do so
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his whole Free Speech Warrior thing is a
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Canard and and I I will not accept
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anyone saying uh that he's he could a
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broken clock could be right twice twice
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a day but in this case when he's in
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India or turkey he completely cooperates
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and and actually X is one of the bigger
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Cooperators with autocratic uh
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governments in in censoring so his
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excuse here is because he doesn't like
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the government uh but go ahead you just
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stole all my thunder I think you're
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exactly right your point is he's
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incredibly cynical because when erdoan
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or Modi or any other autocrat says I'd
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rather you just not do this he's like no
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problem no problem so this he's totally
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inconsistent here and to be clear what
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they asked him to do was they asked him
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um to appoint a legal representative to
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deal with request to deal with requests
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to take down accounts allegedly involved
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in spreading political misinformation
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they didn't they didn't mandate they
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take it down they're like we just want
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somebody to deal with and here's the
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thing well it's because they're scared
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about them being arrested because you
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know they're arrested in other parts of
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the world um this is China though come
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on Brazil is not going to arrest the
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representative from from X they're just
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not going to do it and that's that's the
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reason that's his excuse just so you're
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aware I'm just but I was down there I
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think he'd have a solid case in court
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but to your point it's just totally
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inconsistent and I don't know how he
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behaves in other countries is relevant
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in a Brazilian court but here's the
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thing I was in Brazil when this happened
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and this is pulse marketing I talked to
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quite a few people at this conference I
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went to the XP conference that that's
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50,000 people there and no one we're
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talking more about it than they are you
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know what they don't care they use
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WhatsApp they use Instagram they move to
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they move to um Blue Sky a lot of the
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blue sky and thread saw big especially
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blue sky but it's just not it's just not
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a relevant it's a platform that is
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either not used or is easily
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substitutable so it wasn't like people
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are running around angry at the
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government that they don't have their
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Twitter I think this is this is part of
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a more meta Trend and it's the following
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whether it's
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the CE of telegram being arrested
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whether it's Google being found guilty
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of Monopoly
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maintenance uh whether it's a a doj
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reaching out to Nvidia people have just
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decided they're fed up with a distinct
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set of rules and behavior for someone
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who is in technology versus the rest of
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us or technology firms and I think this
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is just a continuation of that strategy
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and his his lack of concern around I
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don't know if he's trying to be
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brilliant here and get a lot of press
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and say I'm a free speech Warrior I'm
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not afraid to take on Brazil but he's
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gotten into if you were a board you'd be
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say why are you get personalizing this
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and getting into a pissing match with a
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judge in Brazil how does that serve
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shareholder value he also acts like he
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also treated as if he was going to
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invade Brazil but uh this is I thought
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was the best quote it was Brazilian
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president let me pronounce this
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correctly Louise ignasio Lula D Silva
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Lulu um he said the Brazilian just Lulu
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uh Lula Lula the Brazilian justice
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system may have uh given an important
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signal that the world is not obliged to
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put up with musk's extreme rightwing
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anything anything sorry anything goes
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just because he is Rich I thought he
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that was a perfect sentence as far as I
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thought but the fear here or the bigger
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concern in my view is what happens when
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starlink which is a superior product is
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uh contracted engaged and used to
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download important
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data uh and basically operate or be the
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backbone of say Hospital Systems in RI
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and something like this happens and I
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wouldn't put put it B must to say you
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know what I'm going to turn off starlink
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and oh if that means a bunch of Hospital
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systems and your aircraft can't land so
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be it yeah and this is this is the
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danger when one person Aggregates too
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much wealth or power I think the I think
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the leverage he's going to have quite
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frankly around starlink is much more
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frightening and the fact that he well
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they though the country threatened to
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take over the land well the cash right a
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bunch of uh no no not just the cash but
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there's installations in Brazil that
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allow it to work better and they were
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just going to take over they have
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leverage over him right now because of n
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starlink assets at some point I think
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he's going to have leverage over Nations
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because of starlink oh you know they
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have to have installations on the ground
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they can always take those over you know
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I I think it's it's it's stupid that
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he's fighting it's he should sell his
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product and stop politicizing everything
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that's my feeling is he's got a great
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product stop involving himself in every
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he's fighting with Venezuela he's
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fighting with Brazil he's sucking up to
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India and turkey like he's fighting he
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fought with Ukraine but then didn't
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fight Ukraine he should get the out
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of foreign policy and just sell his
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stuff that's my feeling um but he's not
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going to do that because his role in the
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potential Donald Trump Administration is
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becoming more clear Trump is set to
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share plans for government efficiency
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commission that Elon recommended in a
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speech at the economic Club of New York
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this week according to the Wall Street
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Journal Elon wayen on X saying I look
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forward to to serving America if the
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opportunity arises no pay no title No
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recognition is needed what a Croc of
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all he wants is recognition if he
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had been hugged more as a child we'd all
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be in a better position with this guy um
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you know he's he's going to he's going
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to fix our government which is is so
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full of conflicts of interest I don't
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even want to say he's got defense
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contracts he's got space contracts he's
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got uh car you know he should not be he
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could be on a commission but to have any
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real power would be Terri so what I
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don't get is he claims that he wants to
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do away with all subsidies does that
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mean he's going to give a half a billion
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dollars back to the government for the
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subsidies he's received I don't this is
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also cynical and what what is the
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strategy here he's going to lay off 80%
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of government employees and not pay them
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Severance the legally obligated
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Severance is he going to accuse
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employees working in our civil service
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and our defense department uh
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incorrectly of being sex criminals like
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what is it mean when you're going to ask
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him to help with efficiency I just I
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this is
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it's sort of typical of both of them I
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think it's just a gigantic press release
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um I I mean it we it's like it's like
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shocking but not surprising this
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it's like nothing surprises me anymore
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regardless of how ridiculous it is these
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two are linked together in a way that is
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really not going to be good for either
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of them I think personally I think it'll
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it'll end in Disaster by the way one
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more thing before I forget um he Elon
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did Tucker Carlson did a heinous
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interview with a uh with a historian who
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not Hitler yeah Hitler apologist and
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Elon retweeted it and then promptly took
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it down um pretty quickly and let me
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tell you why this is the kind of
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that gets you banned in Europe because
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Germany everywhere else I I know there
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was a big group of people from the right
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that won in Germany but this stuff is no
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no kidden in Europe on this stuff and so
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if he wants to get in a fight now he
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wants to get in a land war with Europe
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now that's where it's headed so you know
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this this guy is going to suck all the
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the away from Trump which I think is
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where they're going to fight