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kills to transfer to space? Because space is going to be nuclear, all right? Probably they won't use nuclear engines to take off. That might stay similar to how it is now. But once you get into space you're going to need some serious energy, right? To stay up there for a while, to go to Mars and back, that sort of thing. You're gonna need a lot of energy. And so the idea is nuclear thermal propul…
← Previous segment →anybody who wants Biden to pursue unity, I think we should push the fine people hoax as the thing that needs to be corrected. It's the thing in my life that most needs to be corrected. I need the people on the left to know they were lied to about that in particular because it was so important. They need to understand they were lied to about that. That's a big change. There's nothing else unity wise that I can think of, nothing that would come close to that in terms of making the people on the right say, okay, okay, that sounds like unity. Right? Stop calling us racist. That would be a start. Yeah, there's the other hoaxes too, the bleach drinking hoax, etc.
Brandon Straka apparently has been picked up by the FBI. I don't know if he's arrested per se but he's in some trouble for being part, allegedly part, of the Capitol insurrection. And by being part of it the reports, which you should not treat as credible yet, is that he may have been inside the Capitol and may or may not have been saying things inciting other people to go inside.
I have a real problem with somebody like him getting swept up in any legal problems. On one hand I totally oppose the people who entered the Capitol and caused any damage and threatened our government, etc. The legal system needs to do what the legal system needs to do. If laws were broken it has to be addressed I guess. There's just no way around that. Even if you have some empathy for the people who did it, our system just doesn't let you commit crimes and get away with it. Unfortunately you just can't do that. Or fortunately you just can't do that.
But the problem is I do think there is something about the idea of being swept up in something. If everybody is doing something it doesn't look so wrong if you're in the crowd. And somehow that has to matter, right? You can't let people get away with crimes but it has to matter how you got there. And I think the legal system does take that into consideration at least for sentencing. So I'd hate to see somebody like Brandon Straka get any kind of a permanent problem in his life from the legal system for what I doubt he ever had any violent anything. Probably thought he was doing a free speech thing, didn't think he was getting anybody with a club. So he was just there for free speech. I just have a real problem if he gets hit hard by the legal system.
So that's just a shout out to the legal system. Be smart about this, right? You've got to be smart about this. And this would be sort of a dividing line. Like he's an edge case where what you do with Brandon Straka and other people who are in the same situation, I feel like how you treat that is going to make a big difference especially to unity.
So Joe Biden has prioritized racial inequality as one of his top things to battle. And here's my take on that. Of course racial equality is something I think we all want, don't we? Is there anybody here who doesn't want racial equality? So as a concept of course we all want that. If you're a good person you want that. But my problem with it is it's the easiest con because talking about it does the least and it might even be in some cases counterproductive. And so making it a priority but not doing anything about it, it just feels like a con.
Compare that to what Trump did. He didn't talk about it but he did things about it. You know he did prison reform. He worked on the economy which is good for everybody. As I said earlier he didn't seem to be a supporter of the teachers unions which are the biggest cause of racial inequality in the long run. So Trump was all action. He funded permanently, or he did a lot of funding for the historically black colleges. He did opportunity zones with Tim Scott. Every part of that was action directly related to making the world a more equal place racially, etc. All action.
But what exactly is Joe Biden going to do having made it a priority? I feel like that's about talking. I feel like it's a con. That it's a way to make people think something is happening but what's happening is talking. And I feel bad honestly for black voters who thought they were getting more than that. I don't know that they're getting more than that. We'll see. But looks like that's all they're getting.
Speaking of that priority, here's the scariest thing that you'll see
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lately. In the California high schools they're going to embrace the CRT or critical, now actually critical ethnic studies. So I guess instead of critical race theory it's critical ethnic studies. And within that study apparently, reportedly, they talk about who has a privileged position in society. And what would be the point of saying that some group has a privileged place in society? What would…
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