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the billionaire class and the big donors are going to do their homework. That's the group that's making damn sure they know who to give their money to because it's a lot of money and they're smart high functioning people who are not just guessing. They're doing good risk analysis and they know where their money's going. So if you say all the, if you say oh I don't know if you knew this but the sma…

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ite supremacy hoax. What do you think? I think we should. White supremacy a hoax at this point. Now you know how the argument always goes right? The side that disagrees with you will tell you if there are three white supremacists in a group of 80 million all 80 million are white supremacists right? That's where we go next. So next we go there. Well if you have two or three in that group of 80 million probably probably the whole group's white supremacists and you know where it's going. There's not going to be a question. But if the rate, apparently there's some jiggering with the numbers to make it look like the white supremacy was worse than it was and that maybe that was intentional. It's scary but we don't know how much is real.

So there was a story today about a Republican representative who is speaking in Congress and he used the phrase colored people. A black woman whose name I can't remember insisted that that be stricken from the record. And then the individual who said it realizing that he had missspoken said he would like to revise the record from colored people to people of color. Does that sound reasonable? He immediately went up no no no argument no argument. He immediately went up and said I'd like to revise that to people of color. And then the woman who is challenging it said that's unacceptable. She wants to just take it out of the record. I don't know why because I feel like amending it would get her more than taking it out because amending the record if there's any record of I don't know if they keep a record of what got amended wouldn't it be better to show the path? To show you said something you misspoke you corrected it move on with your life.

All right here is my overall opinion on this topic. Don't care. Don't care. Do you know why the reason I don't care is because black Americans have been promoted recently to full citizenship and full respect. Full respect full citizenship. That just happened with the affirmative action thing being overturned. Once you have full citizenship for the first time in my opinion we don't care about this now. It doesn't matter. Nobody cares. Nobody cares that you were offended by it. Do you know why? Because if a white person had been offended in let's say the same fashion nobody would give a about that white guy. Nobody. How about an Asian American was offended in the same way? I don't give a. Do you? I don't care who got offended by something that was just clearly misspeaking. No care at all. And the reason I don't care is not because I don't care it's because you've been promoted. It's literally because Black Lives Matter. I can't agree with you more that you need the full respect of a full citizen. Take it. We're offering it. I mean the whole world is offering it. Just take it. You'll love it.

Have you ever seen the, there were studies I don't know if there's science backs this but I believe it has been studied many times that if you take students and tell them they're good at math they get good grades. If you take students and tell them they're bad at math they don't because they think they're bad at math they get bad grades relatively speaking. Now if that's true then the ending of affirmative action should in the long run have the effect of making everybody think that they could be good at math you know if somebody tells them they're good at math. So I think the end of affirmative action is an insanely positive thing for Black America that looks like an insanely bad thing at the moment. I get that there are certainly individuals who are maybe counting on rules being different and got disappointed and that's a real thing that's a real problem but overall the full respect of being a full citizen of the United States is way more important. That'll get you more in the long run make you feel better make you perform better make everybody like you better. It's all good. It just doesn't feel like it in the short run.

Well more to this point 13 attorney generals from different states, 13 states sent a message to their states that the affirmative action decision that applied to colleges must also be applied to corporations and businesses. And the thinking is that if the Supreme Court found racial preference to be illegal in the context of colleges obviously it would be also equally as illegal if businesses were doing exactly the same thing. So there's 13 states that just said it's illegal to do anything that even has the effect of affirmative action and specifically in those 13 states DEI is dead because the AG has just turned it off. They just made it illegal to have a diversity equity and inclusion department. Well you could have the department I suppose but you couldn't actually do anything that changed the mix of people so the DEI couldn't do the job of the DEI. I mean the essential part in 13 states that's illegal now. Goodbye DEI. Now of course these are you know will be 13 most conservative states I assume. I didn't see the list. Tendencies on the list I think so that should give you a hint. Don't know if more states will join but I think they might. Yeah it could stay at 13.

Well Biden found some new technical way to cancel a bunch of student debts. Not all of it but a big old chunk of it has something to do with and this is what you can do by executive order. It took me a long time to figure out why an executive order can work when it's not Congress and it's not a law. Like why can you just say the executive, the president can just c

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hange stuff? You know I saw Congress is the only one who could do that but the details are that if the law allows the federal government and the president to manage something then that president can manage that thing as long as it's within the bounds of the law according to a number of subjective or different technical ways to get it done. So the trick is that you have to write your executive orde…

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