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akes. We're going to kill you. You're gone. Your whole operation and all your children all dead. That's the negotiation. Now here's the thing with the cartels. They have the Putin problem. They don't have that retirement plan. The cartel can't just retire. Now it could stop selling fentanyl and still make plenty of money and still be a cartel. So they do have a way to go if they don't want to esca…

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s one way or the other based on who has the better fentanyl plan. I'd like to see them compete. So as of today the Republicans have the better fentanyl plan. Declare that they're terrorist organizations. Declare that it's a weapon of mass destruction. Those are good plans. And then at least have the conversation about bombing them. Matt Gaetz, right? So if you voted today and you wanted to make the one issue fentanyl your primary reason for your vote you would vote Republican. But let me be clear they're not doing enough. They're just talking and changing the definition of words isn't really doing anything, right? So Republicans still round to zero of actual impact, right? But the way they're talking and the way they're sort of leaning is very superior. Very. I mean it's not even close compared to what the Democrats are offering which is essentially nothing. So I'm gonna keep hammering on this and I'll try to convince as many people as possible to at least commit to making it a one-issue vote. What you do when you get into the voting booth that's up to you. You can use any criteria you want. But if you could publicly commit that you would vote for whoever could figure out a plan to solve the fentanyl maybe you get them to compete. Because Republicans are not going to do more than they just did because now they're ahead, right? They have the advantage on fentanyl persuasion so they don't need to do anything at all except talk because they have the advantage and talk. So as long as they're ahead they don't need to push. But what if the Democrats say oh shit their head. I'd like to get those million swing votes that will vote for one topic. Maybe they can come up with something that's wrong and maybe I'd even like it. And if I do I'm going to push for a Democrat. Let me say it directly so you're not surprised. If the Democrats come up with a better plan for fentanyl I'm going to push the out of it. Don't give me a hard time about it. I'm just warning you in advance so you don't get too shocked.

All right. So I was hoping that when I tweeted about making fentanyl a single issue topic for voting that enough people would retweet it that it would look serious. I did get the thousands and thousands of retweets which is very high for a retweet for me. But I think we need at least a million. I think we need to credibly say we could move a million votes to whichever side had the better fentanyl policy. Why? Because there are a million people in the United States who have been directly affected by the fentanyl overdose. Do you see that? There are at least a million people just like me who have somebody they know and was close to them who died from fentanyl and see that there's nothing being done to stop it and it's growing. I want all of those million people who have ever experienced any fentanyl death to say you can do something about this. All you have to do is commit in public on social media that you're going to vote for the side that has the best fentanyl plan and you'll worry about the other stuff next time, right? You'll worry about the other stuff next time. And you know what the Republicans are still up big time. I mean their messaging is just so bad. So bad. So you've got the Republicans who are looking to get tough on fentanyl which kills young people mostly and they have not rolled it into their protecting the young, right? The message that the Republicans have it's just right in front of them. All you have to do is just sink your teeth into it like you've got this big plate of perfect persuasion just served right up. You are the party, you Republicans are the party who absolutely in every case is looking out for the kids. Now I'm not arguing that all of the ways you want to do that are the best ways to do it. Those are separate questions. But there's no doubt about who is in it and serious about protecting kids. Everything from abortion. Again we're not arguing who's right or wrong about that but there's only one side that is clearly about protecting the young and the other side is about protecting the adults. That's a very clear distinction. If the Democrats are not trying to crack down on fentanyl they're not protecting the young. Not even close. And then you look at school. Republicans have the advantage there too. You look at economics. Don't young people want to get into a world that has good economics? I mean basically on every level from energy, economic, school, abortion. No matter what you think of abortion, right? So I'm not giving you my abortion. I don't have an opinion on abortion because I have a that's my view. But the Republicans have this slam dunk absolutely killer persuasion opportunity to just say in every single case Democrats will put their own selfish needs above children and we'll do the opposite. It will take care of the future and they're just taking care of their weird orange hair.

All right. We've gone from sentient Husky dogs all the way to that. All right. So how many noticed that I got a little attention on Twitter yesterday because I mentioned in a comment to somebody, it was just a comment, that I had lost two careers in the corporate world for being a white male. I've said that quite a few times in public but this time it attracted Ida Bae Wells who called me a liar. And she said in the tweet she said you've been propagating the same lie for years. It would be illegal for your bosses to have said that, meaning that I couldn't get promoted because I'm a white male. It would have been illegal for your bosses to have said that and no one believed you. You've been propagating the same lie for years. Which means she's been aware of me for years. So this isn't the first time that she knows I made this claim. And she says it would be

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illegal for your bosses to have said that and no one believes you. So now her real name is Nicole Hannah-Jones and she goes by this historical name. I'm not sure exactly when she uses which name but it's the same person. And she's the author of the 1619 Project if you haven't heard of that. All right. So what did I do when she called me a liar? Well she also asked for evidence and some other prom…

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