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Michael Smokanex, and she's a Republican congressman from South Carolina running for governor in

2026, Nancy Mace. Okay, these are from the people that people want to know.

What do you think of Defense Secretary Pete Hesveth is, oh yes, Pete Hetzeth, is summoning hundreds of generals and admirals to Washington.

I heard 800 them from around the world are being summoned to Washington. No one knows why.

I don't know why people are so unsettled about this. Truly, if it were a corporate CEO saying,

I want to have the leadership come together for a skull session, nobody would care. I read those

stories very careful. Like, what the hell am I missing here? I don't get it. The concern.

I love that. That's sensible. Because I read it and I, yes, they, I think I, you know, got scared because they may try, they wanted me to be scared. Like, what's, my God, what's going on here? Is he going to, you know, it's going to, like, braveheart? He's going to get them all in the thing and burn the thing. I don't want to be able to work with our allies

and be strong and have peace in the world

I think this's a great idea. I mean, I've never heard anybody doing this, but yeah, maybe it's nothing. But, you know, you've got to admit, there's a reason why we're a little suspicious about some of the stuff that goes on with this administration, because they don't know about norm and they don't care about laws. True. But also Reagan, peace through strength. I mean, showing strength around the world by having these generals come together, I think, is a good thing. The only legitimate concern that I've heard so far, and Nancy knows more about this than I will, is if the government shuts down, there's some concern that some of these folks will get stranded in the nation's capital. I don't know. Well, yeah, there you up. Yeah, potentially.

They're actually canceling congressional delegations I heard, like, right now, this weekend

because of a potential government shut down.

On that subject, let me just throw this in there then, about being, you know, not too partisan

when you hear about stuff.

I was reading a lot about this week, TikTok.

Now, TikTok looks like it's getting sold.

And a lot of people are very upset about this.

Like, now it's going to be Oracle who's going to own a lot of it.

And it's, you know, more plutocrats owning things in America.

But it seems like it was the same people who were saying

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