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e wealth gap. Does anybody have a problem with poor people doing better? No. It's just how you do it, right? It's the mechanism to make that happen that's the controversy. And so Joe Biden is going to use government funding to directly benefit Black businesses, and there are a number of other things he's looking into, but they all have the same element. That instead of saying we're going to close…

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racism in any direction because that's not the country I want to live in. And indeed I would move out of the country if this becomes more of a norm than it is. It's already pretty bad.

Now I'm speaking as somebody who's lost a couple of jobs. Some of you know my story. I've written about it a lot. Because I'm white. Specifically because I'm white and male. In other words, my bosses told me directly we can't promote you because you're white and male, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. Two different jobs. Which is why I'm a cartoonist. I had to go work for myself because having a boss didn't work. Maybe you've seen a cartoon about that. Bosses that are not good for you.

So I hate Joe Biden. He's a racist and he's introducing racist policies and he should be completely disavowed. But if I'm looking at the quality of his technique, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. If he pulls this off, I think he's got a good argument that he helped Black Americans and they might reward him or the Democrats in elections. So politically it's probably pretty good. He's just a racist.

All right. Biden has a China problem. I think Liz Peek was writing about this on Fox News website. And the problem goes like this. We have all these things we need to negotiate with China. But here's my question. Do you personally know how much China knows about Hunter Biden? Do you? I mean, you know what the news has reported that Hunter Biden did or allegedly did or did not, right?

Michael says if they could do it to Michael Flynn they can do it to anybody and get away with it. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But Biden has a problem, which is you've probably heard this standard before, that if somebody has a conflict of interest they should call it out. And yeah, that's this good point. Joe Biden was responsible for the destruction of General Flynn by calling out the Logan Act. And Biden's the government. If you were Michael Flynn and the very guy who was like at the center of your targeting was running the government, would you be in favor of a violent overthrow of the government? Maybe. Maybe you would be. Yeah.

All right. So anyway, Biden has a China problem, which is you've heard the saying that you should avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest, correct? Not only do I have something on my shirt. You should not only avoid actual conflict of interest but you want to avoid the appearance of it, because the effectiveness of our government is partly if not largely based on their credibility.

If the government is doing good things or at least trying to do good things, you'll say all right, you know, you can still be in charge. But what if you don't know if Joe Biden's decisions are based on maybe concern about what China knows about his son? Do you know? You don't know what China knows, do you? You don't know what Joe Biden knows about Hunter. You don't know what Hunter knows about himself. You don't know.

So how can Joe Biden be our credible leader against the number one important topic to this country, which is the future of the United States vis-a-vis China? It's one of our biggest questions, if not the biggest question. It's probably the biggest question. And our leader is the only person I know of — there must be more, but the only one I know of — who I can't trust right now.

I'm not saying I can't trust him because he's a Democrat and I'm not saying I can't trust him because he's Joe Biden. I actually do think a Democrat and a Joe Biden without any conflict would be perfectly capable of dealing with China. But somebody whose son might be a risk? I don't think so. I don't think we can trust Biden on any China question.

So what do you do about that? Well, I almost think that Biden should recuse himself, except if he did it would sort of indicate that Biden's guilty. So he can't even recuse himself. Now how would a president recuse himself? Because there's nobody to take the president's job, right? Like who steps in? And the only way I can imagine would be to set up some kind of a commission of people who are not Joe Biden, and they could be just Democrats because they would report to him. And have that commission come up with recommendations, and the commission would not have a bias. And then you would see if Biden uses what they come up with. But you'd be concerned that they would be co-opted to do whatever Biden wanted. So maybe that wouldn't work either.

Ken Davis says this marks five episodes where you haven't made me mad. Try harder. Well, Ken, I think transgender athletes should have every right to compete anywhere they want. Actually I don't believe that. What I do believe is that all athletes should be competing against people who are of similar capabilities. I don't think that their genders should matter. So I don't think that we should be having men's teams and women's teams only. I think we should also have co-ed teams, and then people can just play with whatever level that they're capable to play with.

So I don't believe that we should keep the teams the way they are with just women and just men and then throw some transgender athletes into the mix and hope it works out, because it won't. Obviously it won't. So my point on the

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transgender thing, which I don't know if I ever said it clearly, is people are not broken. The system of how we organize and do sports is completely broken. And if you think that the problem is with the people, I don't think that's a good way to organize society. I think we should always say, okay people, you're all really different, but none of you are broken. For our purposes you're all just di…

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