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. I'm not. I'm actually surprised that there isn't more racial violence, aren't you? I'm not recommending it, in case anybody was unclear on that. But given the media landscape, I'm surprised there isn't a lot more. And if there is a lot more, that would be kind of predictable, because the news is turning all the stories into black-white stories. What would be the most obvious outcome of stories…

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now, that will be completely transformed with the next George Floyd.

So you know that there could have been George Floyds for four years during Biden, right? Easily there could have been more George Floyds. I'm pretty sure that whatever problems there are between police and the black community, I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed when Biden became president, right? But the way we treated them, which ones we highlighted, what the news decided was news, you know, probably CIA influence on the news. So there will be guaranteed something that was going to happen on its own. I don't think it would be an op to create a crime, but I think there's some crime that was going to happen on its own. We'll have just the right elements to make it the only thing that's a story, you know, the George Floyd. So it doesn't matter what Trump's numbers are today. Those will be wiped out by the next brainwashing operation. And you could just put it on your calendar practically. It's guaranteed.

All right. Another story about the Maryland schools and I guess the Baltimore schools in particular, in which there are zero people who learned anything in school. That's the summary. And none of the students learned anything in their schools. They're all failures. To which I say, is that a national story? Or is that people getting exactly what they wanted? They keep voting for it. They must want it. If they wanted something different, I imagine they would go get it for themselves.

Do you know why we don't have this problem in my town? So in my town we have pretty highly rated schools by California standards, because people in my town want good schools. That's it. They want it. That's the whole story. They just want it, so they make sure that they get it. Baltimore has no functioning schools as far as I can tell. But every year they vote. They go vote for it, and they vote for more of this apparently. So I don't care about Baltimore's failing schools. They're getting what they ask for. And they asked for it every two to four years. They re-ask for it and they re-ask for it. They know what to do to fix it. They don't want to. I don't know why.

And when I say they don't want to, that never means everybody, right? It means there's not enough people who care. So what should you do about that situation? Should you take some of your money that you earned and maybe try to give it to them? No, that would be crazy. You should just avoid it in any way you can. Just get away. Just go where that's not a problem. Move to my town. My town has good schools. Problem solved.

All right. Yeah, move away. Let the cities fail. The faster the cities fail, the better off we all will be, because they need to hit bottom. And apparently they're not close, so they've got to get a lot worse. So when nobody in Baltimore can read and everybody dies by murder, that would be about the time that something will change.

All right. But I'll tell you what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to make it my problem. Everybody agree with that? I'm not going to make that my problem. If you want your problem to be solved, you need to leave. It's not reall

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y the hardest thing in the world to understand what needs to be done. And if you want to leave and you can't, that's something I would put some energy into. If it turns out there were a lot of people who just wanted to get out of their bad situation physically and just go anywhere, just anywhere that there's a real school, I would be behind throwing some energy and money beyond that. But no, I'm n…

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