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hat's not unusual. But do you think it's like what the conscripts are doing? Like they're all walking out as soon as their commander turns around. They're like, and as soon as nobody's watching, they just... I don't think it's happening. I don't think it's happening. But it's pretty hilarious as a report. But again, I don't think it's true. You know, this is... let me give you a little lesson on…

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m or the other would try to cheat, might get away with it. And who knows? Who knows what they'll do.

Then there's the turnout question. Midterms are always a turnout race, right? Whoever has the best turnout wins. I don't know. What do you think's gonna have the best turnout? I've heard Republicans are more enthusiastic, but what do you think?

Let me tell you what the Democrats did right and wrong at the same time. When they said, hey, abortion is going to be a big issue, they immediately did two things. They said let's make it a big issue, but also let's solve it so it's not as big an issue. So at the same time they're trying to make it a political issue, they're doing an excellent job of arranging transportation so that you could go to a state where you can get an abortion and get back. That sort of takes the urgency away from it, doesn't it? Right? Because if you're not actually immediately in the stage of needing an abortion, that extra inconvenience doesn't feel as big. If you actually need an abortion, it feels gigantic, I'm sure. But on a conceptual level, if you said to yourself, hey, they can't take our abortion away from us, but then you realize you can still get an abortion, all you have to do is cross state lines in many cases, then it doesn't feel like an emergency. It feels like a huge inconvenience. Would you agree that the Democrats have made it their issue at the same time they solve the issue? That you can't have both.

Now I think they had to try to solve the issue from their perspective. They couldn't ride it out and make it an issue. But it really degraded their own issue by doing a fairly effective job of making sure people knew they had some options. I don't know. I don't know how well it works, but some options.

So all right. Have you heard, I think Black Lives Matter has said this and a lot of Black leaders have said this. I heard Hawk Newsom said this, that one thing that Black Americans need and are really asking for is financial education. Now the reason I'm saying that BLM is asking for it is it sounds racist if I say it. Yeah, you have to know it's not White people telling Black people they need to be educated, and that's not what's happening. It's everybody understanding that there's a knowledge gap that should be filled in.

So here's a hypothetical for you. Suppose Republicans started offering free financial education for Black Americans. Just free. Just sign up. Could be online, could be in person, whatever. It's just free. It teaches you personal finance. And then, well, you don't have to target it at the Black population. You should target everybody who needs it. But you could market it as something that's extra useful for one group. I think you could get away with that.

But all right. Now if you were going to give them personal financial information, I think you'd spend a little bit of time with t

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he macro stuff like the big country-level economics. And you would probably teach them about capitalism. You'd probably teach them about free markets. You'd probably teach them the difference between capitalism and socialism. A little bit of history. You don't have to go too far. And you'd say, well, you know, a system that's built on incentives will work. A system that's built on poor incentives…

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