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e to say he's maybe one of the bravest people who's ever worked in government. I mean he's a brave mofo. I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge that when people take these jobs it's not always for the power. Sometimes they're patriots. Rand Paul as far as I can tell isn't doing it for the money. As far as I can tell I don't see any indications to that. And he takes difficult stands which I…
← Previous segment →. You're like I'll bet you couldn't find one person who would back that. Oh yeah in private. Oh yeah you should see what she says in private.
And I said the same thing about myself when I got canceled. The first thing that happens when you get canceled, you all know this, they look through your entire history to find out all the supporting bad things you did that for some reason nobody noticed until now. And when you sum them all up, oh my God this new thing must really be indicative of your nature. Did you notice that there was none of that for her? None of that for me? None. You don't think that people poured over everything we did as soon as we got canceled? Of course they did. And what did they find? Decades of the opposite. Decades. Decades of consistently being the opposite of the accusation. And still that fact doesn't alter the story. Don't you think the story should be well after 40 years of being this way there was this one thing that people thought might invalidate that 40 years? None of this is real. There's nobody who cares about Roseanne's opinion or mine.
Do you think there's anybody who woke up and it's like you know I was gonna have a good day but there was this cartoonist who said that thing that I took out of context and now I can't have a good day? No nobody cares about my opinion. They use the opinions of famous people as just a focus point to put their own views into it. So it's never about the person. They're just a conduit for people's opinions and that's about it. Don't take any of it seriously unless you get canceled and then you all know this.
All right so as you know Vivek Ramaswamy is getting a lot of attention for a great campaign. A lot of people who like Trump probably are liking him as well. Maybe not as much, right? Maybe they still prefer Trump but the Venn diagram of people who think you know they like Trump's vibe or at least what he's offering policy wise they're liking Vivek for similar reasons. But if you want to hear the best reason, yeah this might be the moment when I went from liking Vivek a lot to loving him. I think I've crossed over to some kind of man love.
All right here's what he tweeted after there was yet another embarrassing Kamala Harris video. So Vivek tweets that Kamala Harris makes the most powerful case I'll see in my lifetime against race and gender quotas in government if only she knew it. Wow. I don't think has anybody except Trump ever said something that direct. That's really direct. Yeah standing ovation right now.
This tweet didn't make much of an impact when he did it. Was it two days ago? Can you imagine in any other world that two days ago he could say this? That Kamala Harris is the best argument in his whole lifetime against race and gender quotas in government. He said it as directly as you could say it. You know why there was no controversy or pushback? Everybody agreed. Yeah.
Now Trump made the arms a little bigger so now you can play inside his space, right? So because Trump is so brutally frank on his opinions it just made it acceptable that you can play within those realms. He's already created. So I don't think Vivek could have said this I don't know six years ago. I think it would be the end of his career but today you can say it not only because it's obviously true but because our conversation has been broadened so you can now say that and you can actually just go on with your life.
Now I'd like to endorse that so I can say it too. Kamala Harris is obviously a diversity hire. Obviously. Now that doesn't mean that all diversity hires are going to be incapable like she is. Literally nobody thinks that. But some, but surely in our weird world where you protect everybody you know pretend to have opinions somebody's going to pretend that I think that if you're a minority hire you could not be qualified. Literally nobody believes that. Literally nobo
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dy. Yet that's the way we play it. We act as if there's somebody who actually has that opinion. Have you ever met anybody who had the opinion that you couldn't have a qualified black vice president? It's not even a thing. Literally you couldn't find one functioning brain that would have that opinion. Nobody. But can you say that Kamala Harris is somewhat obviously not qualified? Yeah you could sa…
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