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crucify him. Let me say that again so you won't think I chose that word accidentally. If the Democrats thought that Trump was a problem before they decided to crucify him, and then he went silent for a while, how many days? And the only problem is if you thought that the so-called insurrection was a problem, wait till you see the resurrection, because the resurrection's going to be a bigger proble…

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just needs to be awesome. I would mostly look forward to how they named the restrooms, because I think Adam Schiff needs to be part of that. Or at least you know the new green new toilets have two buttons depending on what your business was. You got the little button for number one and big button for number two. Well I think the big button should be named Adam Schiff and the little button should be whatever. But then there should also be, I'd like to see a Stormy Daniels interactive exhibit sort of like a ride. Well you could use your imagination there. I don't have to fill in the blanks.

All right. This is a predictable problem. Apparently there were a bunch of vaccinations available in Washington Heights, a part of New York City which has high minority population, I think mostly Hispanic if I'm correct. And a bunch of white people came in and got those shots. So they were available for people over 65 and a bunch of old white people went in there and took those shots so they weren't available for other people.

Now wouldn't it be better that maybe we didn't divide our health care by race? I don't know how this could possibly go well. You know I said this before I think on a tweet. I'm completely on board with the fact that African-American citizens should get some priority because they have worse outcomes. I get that. But there's such a big difference between asking me personally if I would mind waiting, you know waiting for other people to go ahead, in which case I'll say yeah I will. You know that's a good argument. Some other people should go ahead of me. I mean we're all doing that, right? Everybody's saying if you're over 80 you go first. If you're doing frontline healthcare you should go first, etc. So I don't have any problem with the concept of as a citizen of letting other people go first. And black citizens would be at the top of my list because they have worse outcomes. So of course yeah I'm completely on board with that.

But what happens when your government tells you that's the rule? That's different, isn't it? If you ask me personally I'm fine with it. But if you tell me it's the law that my race will determine my health care outcomes, at least in this way, I've got a problem with that. I just don't feel that that's where the government should be getting involved.

But if you ask me voluntarily, you know if even let's say Joe Biden who is legally acknowledged as my president, I don't have to agree with him politically, if he simply said look the only way this is going to work is for you citizens to step up and make some sacrifice. You know who you are. Don't get your shots first. I'd say let us work that out. Because there are people whose psychological condition is such that they probably need to get it sooner because they can't deal with things psychologically, right? Or they don't have the ability to socially isolate as well as I can. If I can socially isolate better than 95 percent of the world and I think that's actually true in my case, shouldn't I wait a little bit longer? Makes perfect sense to me. You just have to ask.

One of the things that's I think deeply missing in this country is just asking. When was the last time somebody did that? When was the last time your leaders said look I don't want this to be a law because it's a bad precedent. I don't want to make it a law that white people go last for shots. It's just not a good precedent. But I will tell you, you know what the risks are and I want you to act like good citizens. I want you to do what's right. Use your conscience. Look at your own risk and reward. Nobody can make that decision for y

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ou. And you decide what's right and then act on it. That's all we're going to ask of you as citizens. You just decide what's right. Now I don't know how that would turn out. Maybe that wouldn't work out. But I feel like that's where we should on this. Joe Biden should be asking people like me because I'm sort of out in the bubble. I'm not old enough that I can get into the shots but I could make…

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