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nt to, you know of course the border agent probably doesn't want to be famous for this so maybe that's a bad idea. Maybe it's better just lay low. All right. As Joel Pollak noted in a tweet, the Wall Street Journal has an article about it. Turns out that while Biden is saying that China is an adversary, blah blah blah, make things in America, that his, was it the secretary of commerce? Yeah, the…
← Previous segment →s for being stupid? That happened, right? I mean that wasn't that? Give me a fact check on here. Didn't Trump say out loud that Mattis was dumb? He did, right? So Mattis, the guy that we trusted to make our most important military decisions, invested in the biggest fraudulent company of I don't know, last 20 years. I don't think I have a lot of confidence in his generaling. He feels like the kind of guy who might be duped into a trap kind of easily, you think? Now to be fair Rupert Murdoch also was one of the largest investors. So you say well if Rupert Murdoch got fooled, you know he's a more experienced investor, you shouldn't be too surprised if somebody was a general and not really an investor shouldn't be too surprised if a general gets fooled. If a big investor like Rupert Murdoch could get fooled. Do you think Rupert Murdoch kicked the tires of this company himself? Do you think Rupert Murdoch visited, met with the founder and did a deep dive into the financials? No, no. I'm pretty sure that Rupert Murdoch has people who do startup investments for him. Probably mentioned the name at a meeting. "Hey we're putting a little money into this one or that one or that one." Probably heard the name, might have maybe knew what the company did for a living but I don't think you can compare what Murdoch did for a small investment like that. Apparently also David Boies the attorney you hear in a lot of stories also invested. So I love seeing stories of smart people investing in fraudulent companies.
Now have I ever invested in a fraudulent company? Have I ever put way more than $85,000 into a company that turned out to be a total fraud? Yeah, yeah I've done that. Do you remember Webvan? There was a company that was going to deliver groceries to your house and the managers were saying that the model was proven and it was already worked in one area and things were going great at the same time they were planning to close the company. So I got taken on that one. But it's fun to make fun of other people who get taken but to be honest it could happen to any of us.
There's an article in CNN that I find amusing. It says that voter suppression doesn't work basically because it suppresses white votes. So if what you wanted to do was to suppress black votes you accidentally, in the process of attempting to suppress the black vote, you end up actually depressing the white vote two different ways. Number one, I don't know why nobody ever brought this up before. You all know that there are more poor white people than black people, right? Now as a percentage there are more poor black people than poor white people but in terms of absolute numbers am I wrong that there are way more poor white people? And why is it that the poor white people we imagine can go out and get an ID no problem but the poor black people can't? How racist are you to imagine that a poor person of one color can just go out and get an ID and the poor person of another color can't do it, can't figure it out? Well I'm here to tell you that that probably has more to do with being poor and where you live than what color you are, right? I don't think there's any indication that your color determines whether you can get an ID. Anybody claim that? Anybody? No. It's your socioeconomic situation that determines whether
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it'll be hard for you to get an ID, right? Everybody agrees with that, right? So logically won't there be way more white people who can't vote if you do anything to reduce the amount of voting? Shouldn't you have fewer white votes than black? Now as a percentage, as a percentage maybe more black but we don't, elections are not based on percentages, based on how many votes you get. Well I mean ulti…
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