e guys? They're not all, I mean it's changing but you know what I mean. And the answer is because there's nothing in the pipeline or not enough, right? So the problem is not that the corporations are discriminating. But you could see how if you were a Black American you would think so, right? So that was the first mystery. It's like why does every white American know that Black people have a gigantic advantage in corporate America? It's the most obvious thing in corporate America. There's nothing you can't miss it. There's nobody working at a big company who is not completely aware of this. That if you have any kind of person of color or sexual difference, whatever, a handicap if that's the right word, differently abled, whatever is the best phrase for it, you have a huge advantage.

But do you think that the Black, let's say a Black 14-year-old student in school, do you think that a Black 14-year-old knows that all they have to do is get this part right and the rest is going to be to their advantage? I doubt it. I'll bet none of them know it. I'll bet none of them know it. So when you see me out here creating all kinds of racial division and provocation it was all part of a scheme. I'm revealing to you my long-term scheme. My long-term scheme is to get enough idiots to call me a racist without actually saying anything racist. Because I don't, as far as I know I don't have any actual racist thoughts. So if they're accusing me of racist thoughts they gotta work at it a little bit and they are. And they're doing a good job of turning my nothing into provocations. So my whole plan was to rile up the Black community enough that I could explain to them that we're on the same side. If I could get them mad enough at me then I can draw their energy in. And because I'm an energy monster the energy, rather than destroying me which is why they would send it, I mean they would send me the energy to kill me but I will convert that energy because I've built a model now. Because I have a way to do this. So I've engineered an entire model to turn their energy into a solution for them. So the more angry you get at me the more likely I can solve your problem. So if you really really want to get mad at me and call me a racist please tell all your friends. Because if you really come at me hard then finally I can get your attention and I can tell you, can I help you? Can we finally take an actual serious bite at systemic racism? And the way to do it of course is to stop calling it just a Black problem because it's a poor person problem. You got to fix education for poor people and then Blacks would be the biggest, it would be the biggest rebalancing of equity and equality in human history. The biggest one in human history. Just fix schools for poor people. That's it. And the rest kind of comes for free.

Now how you do it, I don't want to be too specific so it's not my job to tell you vouchers are the best idea or any kind of specific school or online school or anything else. What I'd like to see is all of them being tried. We should test as many things and track them and see what works and then build on that. But I do think school needs to be rethought from the ground up. I don't think you can tweak schools, do you? I don't think they can be tweaked. I think they have to be reimagined pretty much from the ground up.

Now let me tie this back to something I said before. I argued before that when I was a younger man and I worked for a big corporation and they asked me to sign something that said that I understood that diversity was a competitive advantage. And I looked at it and said well based on what? I mean I understand what you're saying but is there any data to back up the fact that it's a competitive advantage? Like why would I sign something that I don't have any reason to know it's true or not true? I wasn't disagreeing with it. I was just saying this is a data-free claim. Why would I sign this? So I didn't. In the end I didn't sign it. It didn't matter. They didn't care. But I was arguing that this is an unverified claim and it didn't seem right to me to make me sign it at the threat of being fired. I didn't sign it and didn't get fired. I don't know why.

But now as I have gained some maturity I no longer hold that view. My current view is that the United States has a superpower that can't be matched by other countries. And the superpower is that no matter who you are you could find a way to fit in in the United States. And that means we can take their best people. You can get the best Swiss guy and the best Nigerian woman and the best Vietnamese trans. You can get the best everything. You just have to be the country that's going to let it work, right? So imagine going to almost any other country and being the odd one out. Imagine being Black in most countries is a pretty bad deal. Try being Black in Japan. See how that works out for you. Try being Black in Japan. Not so easy.

So if we cultivate our American exceptionalism to be the exceptionalism of flexibility and the exceptionalism of open-mindedness and the exceptionalism of we don't all have to love each other but we'll find a way for everybody to work, have a good life. We're not going to force you to say you love each other. That would be crazy. But we are going to build a system that everybody can thrive. And if you don't fix the education part you don't have anything. That's basically the starting point. If you're not there you're not serious about anything if you don't fix that.

So there is a way for literally everybody in the country to come together on at least one thing that everybody cares about is get this education thing fixed for the people on the bottom rung. And I think you need to fix lower education at the top rung too in my opinion. The best schools, and again my neighborhood has the best schools, I don't think they're good. Like when I see the homework that they're taking home I don't feel confident that they're building minds for the next generation. I mean I actually watched one of my stepdaughters take a photography class with film in the camera. This is well after digital photography was the only kind of photography. It's just crazy, right?

So that chart is because we both have the common and I think it explains the biggest mystery of why we don't agree what the opportunity looks like in corporate America. It does explain it, doesn't it? Like there's nothing left to explain. The reason that I think that Black men have a big advantage over white men in corporate America is because I'm only looking at the few Black men who managed to get through the hardest system in the world which is being a poor person with a bad school and then trying to get into corporate America. That's a big ask, right? Now I had a poor school but I also have the advantage of a good strategy. So I've told you I was working on coming up with a school curriculum and training guide, school guide, so that we could offer a how to succeed class in the form of a book, easy to read book, so that everybody would have the same advantage I had. Because I had a strategy advantage and the strategy advantage was this. From literally from the time I could understand language my mother would say to me about twice a day, you're going to college. That was my upbringing. You're going to college. We expect you to have good grades. And this is the funny thing. My mother always thought this was her secret sauce. She didn't punish us or reward us for good or bad grades. She just said she expected them. And boy if you didn't get them you'd know that she had expected them and it was kind of devastating. You didn't need to punish anybody. It was just devastating. But I also understood that I wasn't doing it just to make her happy. I completely understood that this was my key to success.

She also took me to meet the only lawyer in the town, a very small town. We had one lawyer. So she took me to meet the lawyer because she had some business with him. And do you know why? Because he was the only person that we knew with a good job. We didn't know anybody. We literally didn't even know anybody who had a good job. Just think about that. Just think about the fact I didn't even know anybody who had a good job. So when my mother wanted to deal with the lawyer for whatever reason, I forget, she took me with her just so I could meet a guy with a real job. It was the kind that she thought I should have. She thought I should be a lawyer and for a while I thought so too.

Now compare my experience from also a not the best school but if you've got the right strategy you can still push through. So I'm working two angles on this school problem. One angle is teaching people how to succeed even if their school is bad. That's what the class would do with the book. And the other is how to fix it so you don't have to penetrate it. You just can go through it and have a good experience. Poor or not, if you've got at least one parent supporting you through the school process you've got a much better chance. Now if I had been in an inner city school with drugs and gangs would I still have managed to find some way to get out? Well I think so but maybe that's just my personality. I don't know if statistically that's true but I tell myself I could.

This was interesting. I was watching a Dan Bongino clip of his show where Joe Concha was the guest. Joe Concha has a new book and I can't remember the name of it but part of their discussion was that CNN fact-checking of Biden, there's only been one Biden fact check on CNN since June. Just think about that. They've only fact-checked Biden once since June according to Dan Bongino. Now I was trying to think if I've seen them fact-check. I couldn't remember it because I read CNN's website every day and I do remember seeing all the Daniel Dale fact checks on Trump but he just doesn't do them on Biden. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that, and the other fact-checkers don't as well, it's the same thing at cross fact-checkers. What it tells you is that the fact-checking was never a real thing, right? Obviously. Obviously it tells you that. I mean it doesn't take any interpretation. There's no interpretation needed. This is as obvious as it could be.

So now look at the things that were sold to us as real just a few years ago, right? So we thought fact-checking was at least pretending to be real even though it was biased. I thought it at least was an actual organization or an actual process. It wasn't even a real process. It wasn't a process that's biased. It wasn't even a process. It was a process that only applied to Trump. It wasn't some kind of system. It was completely fraudulent. Amazing.

How about Black Lives Matter? Completely fraudulent. How about Antifa except for the Northwest? Looks like that was fraudulent. We know all the fake news is fraudulent. We know the FBI is a fraudulent organization. So although fact-checking, the news, FBI, Antifa and Black Lives Matter were all turned out to be fraudulent that's not the good news. The good news is all 50 of our election systems, pristine. I know we should all be celebrating that every single other organization, function and group was thoroughly completely corrupt but not all 50 separately run state election systems. Those are so clean. And could we take a moment of silence to thank the great professionals who run these election systems because they're the only things that work perfectly. Everything else flawed.

So yesterday in the man cave I shared with my subscribers on Locals a new app called Replica which has, you can create a little character and the character uses AI to talk to you. So I created a little character and I had the character talk to me and I had a conversation with it in the man cave. I have deleted that. So I've deleted that this morning so you cannot see that conversation and I won't be showing it to you here today because I don't know if I mentioned it but have you heard this before? Adult white men can't say what they really think. And I found out that when an adult white man talked to an AI that was female it became really gross to the people watching it who decided that I should have nothing to do with this AI. So to prove my point that adult white men do not have freedom of speech I deleted it. And so all of you, you're not going to see it but boy was it interesting. It was super interesting and you're not going to see it because I don't have freedom of speech. But I wish I did so you should go look at it yourself.

All right let's talk about Ukraine. So here are some facts that all go toward the hypothesis that Russia's military is collapsing. Ukraine has captured Lyman or Liman and apparently it's a city which is critical to, I don't know, it's a hub of transportation. And apparently it's a very important hub for the war. So Russia is greatly disadvantaged by having lost Lyman we're told. Now here's the thing. Do you think Russia would have given up this important transportation hub if they could have defended it? Do you think they would have let that go if they had the ability to defend it? It looks like they didn't have the ability.

Do we have to do this every time I talk about Ukraine and Russia? I guess we do. All righ