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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 wro…

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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 will work less. And you give them just the basic information of what a free market is, why we have them, what's good about it and what's bad about it.

Now I wouldn't code it. I would say that this will definitely give you some billionaires and some poor people. It's an imperfect system. So you don't have to hide the truth about it. But just a real, genuine, useful financial education. Do you know what would happen? They would all become Republicans. They would all become Republicans. The Republican Party can convert as many people as they need because the Black population is asking for this specific education. And if it were received, they would turn Republican because everybody does. I don't think there are any Democrats who understand economics and are still Democrats.

Yeah, now let me... okay, that's an exaggeration. There are plenty of Democrats that are sort of in the middle who totally understand economics. All right, let me be a little more unbiased. But the progressive wing don't understand economics at all. At all. And one part of that group, one part of Democrats that don't understand economics, but is telling you that they're saying we don't understand this. Can you please, you know, this would help us a lot. Well, why not provide it? Why not give it to them?

And I would say that in terms of systemic racism, this is one of the biggest things that Republicans could fix, if you ask me. You know, name your biggest sources. Well, education would be first, but a specific part of education where systemic racism is really, really real is just the continuation of the legacy of slavery. If you don't live in a family that knows how to handle money, how are you going to learn? But if you're born into a family that already has money and knows how to manage it, you're probably just going to pick it up by osmosis, right? So if you could break that cycle where every Black kid who's born in 2023, let's say, if you say okay, every Black kid born in 2023, as well as every poor kid of any kind, is going to get a basic financial education. Everyone. That's the one thing we're not going to get wrong. You know, you could get everything else wrong, but every Black kid is going to get a financial education with everybody else. What would that do? That would change a lot, wouldn't it? I think it would.

All right, and that's where people could easily come together.

All right, how many of you saw the Fetterman ad? So Fetterman has an ad now, just days before the election, in which it's a takeoff on a '70s Pepsi commercial where Mean Joe Greene was walking through the tunnel after a game and there's some little kid who offers him... is it a Coke? Oh, it's a Coke commercial, not a Pepsi commercial. So offers him a Coke, and there's this moment where Mean Joe Greene, this scary big guy, and a little kid have a moment. It was a famous commercial.

Well, let me tell you what's wrong with the Fetterman ad. Everything. Everything is wrong with his ad. He didn't do a single thing right. He doesn't look good. It doesn't say a message. Most people who are young aren't going to remember the commercial, so they'll be completely confused. And here's the worst part. It starts with him apparently looking like he is exhausted from knocking on doors and campaigning. I think that's what they're trying to say. But instead it shows him barely able to walk, leaning against the wall. Like, and then he's knocking on a random person's door looking like Frankenstein's monster. He actually created a video where he looks like Frankenstein's monster trying to break into your house.

Now, did nobody look at that commercial and say, yeah, I know we spent a lot of money making this and the money's already gone. It's a sort of a sunk cost sort of thing. You would teach a Democrat about sunk costs. They don't understand them. Maybe even though you paid for the commercial and you put in a lot of time, maybe you don't air it. Maybe don't. How in the world did anybody look at that commercial and say green light? How in the world? You have to see it to know how bad it is.

Now if you haven't seen the commercial, you're probably saying to yourself there's probably a little recording. I know when you see commercials on the other team they often look weak. This isn't that. This is not that. This is a commercial so bad that 100% of Democrats, I thi

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nk 100%, would look at it and say, uh, maybe you shouldn't have done that. I don't think there's anybody on his team who would say that worked. Nobody. It might be the worst ad I've ever seen. Would you agree? Have you ever seen a worse, more damaging sell for all time? I think it's the king. I don't think you can do more than that. All right, here's something that really happened that is so mind…

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