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visual. Remember, I always teach you that Trump is the master of visual persuasion. When he talks about the wall, you can picture it in your mind, right? It's a visual thing even if there's no picture. Well, here this is a total visual persuasion. He doesn't need to tell you that Chris Christie has policies you won't like. He can just show a picture of him looking like a slob on a plane. You get t…
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Yeah, that's interesting. What does it mean when Twitter says there's a rate limit that's reached? Does anybody know what that means? I just saw a tweet as a rate limit. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Anyway, we'll get to that story. The rate limit on it. I just saw that go by on the Locals platform.
Wall Street Journal has an editorial in which they're quite pointedly blaming Randi Weingarten for the fact that, well, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but in effect they're blaming Randi Weingarten, the head of the teachers union, the biggest teachers union, for the fact that you ever needed affirmative action, at least in the modern times. Yeah, the argument goes like this, and it's the argument I make, which is if our K-6 schools were good and they gave everybody, including people of color, a good education, you wouldn't have much of a question by the time colleges were looking at applicants because they'd just be looking at a whole bunch of qualified applicants. They'd just pick the good ones just like you think they should. But if you completely fail the, let's say the black community in particular, which is the current case, the black community in America is totally underserved in terms of education, and what are you going to do in college? We can't ask the colleges to fix the problem the Randi Weingarten union caused. Now the reason the union causes that is because they prevent competition and they prevent the easy firing of bad teachers. You put those two things together and you ruin the entire education process in America, which is what happened. It's exactly the predictable outcome you'd expect. It's, I don't know how it could be more obvious. Removing competition and not firing bad teachers is going to get you to exactly where we are now. I mean, who could see that coming?
So anyway, I just want to point out that the Wall Street Journal editorial is on the same page that I am, that systemic racism is really all about the teachers unions.
Could you give me a fact check on something I read? I don't know if this is true and I'm not saying this is relevant to the story. I'm just curious. So it's just curious. I read that Randi Weingarten is a lesbian married to a rabbi. She's a lesbian married to a rabbi. Can you confirm that that's true? So she's a, she's a, yes Paul, I do mean a Jew because that is what a rabbi is. That is correct. Thanks. Thanks for your penetrating insight. A good addition to the conversation. I like it. With a little anti-Semitism gets thro
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wn onto everything. Could we go like a minute without something anti-Semitic happening in the comments on YouTube? Like just one minute. Like you don't have to say it on every story, right? We get it. We get it. I'm completely aware of your opinion. You just, it's just boring now. All right, you're not adding anything to the story except badness. All right. Here's what I think would be a hilariou…
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