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would you watch me if you don't think I could do better than you? You should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this because apparently I have nothing to teach you, nothing to say. All right, you need to work on your ego if that's where you're at. Pretty low level of awareness. Remember I told you that the press would come after me before the elections? Reme…
← Previous segment →in favor of abortion, right? And I'm left of Bernie because Bernie's in favor of abortion and I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the up with his because his has nothing to do with abortion. He's not part of the conversation. So I'm left of him. I say let the women figure it out and then tell us what you figured out and then we'll all be on board. I'm way left of Bernie on abortion.
Right, how about guns? The right wing would say Second Amendment, don't restrict my gun ownership. Bernie would say well you know I am in favor of gun ownership because he actually owns a gun I think. So Bernie's actually in favor of the Second Amendment but with lots of restrictions but still in favor of the Second Amendment. And I'm left of Bernie in that I think that Democrats should not be allowed to own guns. That's way left of Bernie because Bernie is still the Second Amendment is good and I think Democrats should not be allowed to own guns because that's where all the danger is. It is what they want. I mean they want less guns and I want them to have what they want. And since the right is not terribly dangerous in terms of guns, you know minus the lone shooters that are definitely dangerous but in general you know the baseline, it's a Democrat problem. So I'm way left of Bernie. I say take away that Second Amendment rights for Democrats.
Right, what other topics am I left of Bernie on? Bernie would, people on the right would say you should ignore race, ignore race. But that of course gives some advantage to the people who already have advantage, right? So it's a little right-leaning. Not necessarily by intention but that's how it works out. The left would say hey everybody's equal, everybody's equal. And Bernie would say that. Bernie would say everybody's equal. I don't. I'm left of that. I say Black lives matter extra. Anybody who thinks that Black lives matter only the same amount as everybody else, they're right of me. They're way right of me. I say Black lives matter extra and it's obvious why. It's obvious because there are fewer of them and they're in great demand. If there's fewer of anything that's in great demand it has more value. Why is it that corporate America is trying desperately to increase diversity? It's because there's a low supply and a high demand. That's what creates value.
So yeah, not only do I agree that Black lives matter, they matter extra. They're a little bit extra valuable. If somebody Black were killed, is it more likely to become a news story than if somebody White is killed? Of course. George Floyd would be a perfect example. Yeah, no they're extra. Now that's just three examples. I could do this all day.
Did you see the story about Kanye? He did a fashion show for Yeezy. Yeah, he did it in Paris. And the big story is that he wore a shirt that said White Lives Matter. And I saw a picture of him with Candace Owens. Was she at the show? Was that a picture from somewhere else? Can you confirm? Was Candace at the show or was that two different? She was right there. Don't you assume that Candace was behind that? Duh, because she was wearing one too, right? So Candace had to be behind that. Wouldn't you love to have heard that conversation? Can you imagine the conversation between Candace Owens and Kanye when Candace, I know she's the one who's, do we all agree she's the one who suggested it? Like that's just sort of obvious, right? We don't know. That's not confirmed but I'm going to treat it as obvious. It's not confirmed but I imagine that conversation went like this. Hey, you want to get some attention? Put this White Lives Matter shirt on.
Now Kanye is not like the rest of us, right? Kanye operates at a higher level. Frankly higher level of persuasion, higher level of art. He's just at a different level. I don't think anybody else would have been smart enough to do that because remember a fashion show is about getting attention even negative attention. That's part of the tradition of it is to like really shock you. So all the people who don't know you, shocked just to get attention, give you their attention and then they say stuff like my God who would wear those clothes? Because the public doesn't know that the fashion show is not supposed to be the actual clothing line. It's supposed to just shock you.
So Kanye finds the best way to possibly shock. The best way he could not have done that better. Again, Jesus, who is he selling clothes to? White people, right? White people. The last thing Kanye wants is a Black Lives Matter shirt. That's the worst thing he could do for business. He wants to sell clothes to people who have money. Yeah, be they White or Black. He just wants people with money to buy his clothes and like him. So I think it was brilliant.
And I'm going to repay the respect because in my opinion it was done for attention of course but I think that Kanye also operates on the social level that is not just for business. Would you agree? I don't think Kanye is just about business. That doesn't look it to me. It looks like he has larger ambitions for a good world. So I believe that what Kanye did was simply show respect to a category that he probably thinks I'm in. And so I thought I would repay the favor. So today I ordered my Black Lives Matter shirt from Amazon. Should have it tomorrow. So I mean I could start wearing my Black Lives Matter shirt on my live stream. Everybody okay with that?
And specifically it's to return the respect because I actually do think Black lives matter. There's nothing sarcastic about that. Of course they matter. Of course they matter. But because he did that, because Kanye wore the White Lives Matter shirt, then I say whoa, there's a model I would like to copy. I'd love to see Republicans wearing Black Lives Matter shirts just to repay the respect because respect is the thing that we're all missing, right? That's like the thing that went away. And I think the internet has mostly to do with that because you'll respect people in person because they'll punch you in the face if you don't. But you end up getting real disrespectful online and I do it too. I'm not saying other people do it. I do it too. It's just too easy to do.
And so when I see something that works in the right direction, if it works in the right direction I like it. Somebody says I missed the point. What's the point? What's the point? All right I'll wait for that. Kanye said BLM is a scam, right? So did I. Now that we know that Black Lives Matter the organization is a scam I could wear this shirt because everybody
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knows it now. So that helps actually. That goes right to it. All right. And plus I identify as Black so for me it's more organic. Even the Russian reporters are reporting bad news about the Russian involvement. Listen to these choices of words from Russian journalists. So this war correspondent Alexander Kots, I think, on Telegram. So this is on Telegram but he said that the Russian military was…
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