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ng question. Also I have a book called God's Debris that gets into that question. Number two, wait until you find out the implications for free will when AI tells you it doesn't have free will and it acts just like people. What are you going to say? Are you going to say, oh look, but you're a machine. People have free will. And then you can't tell any difference between the machine and a person t…

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done when they talk about his past. Am I right?

Now does this sound familiar? Is there any historical precedent for one candidate talking about the past and that completely losing the election? Yes. This is exactly Bob Dole versus Clinton. Bill Clinton. When Clinton and Gore were running against Bob Dole, Bob Dole was a lovable older gentleman who went through World War II. And Bob Dole said he wanted to bring us back to those great character, the character of the greatest generation. And that was a strong play. The media was saying that's a strong proposition there. Do you know what Bill Clinton did? They said Bob Dole is planning for the past, and we're building, he's building a bridge to the past, and we're building you a bridge to the future. And it's over. That's the end of it. If you can frame your opponent as planning for the past, there's no competition left. That's really the end of it.

So I would say that Biden's campaign is going to walk into the Bob Dole hole of death and may have already done it. So if you see that the Democrats' big thrust is Biden's accomplishments, even though the accomplishments are fresh, I mean they would say the last few years, it won't matter as long as Trump can frame him as looking at the past. It's over. You cannot recover from that framing. As soon as somebody says it, you can see it, right? As soon as I say he's planning for the past, your brain is done. You see it and you're not going to unsee it. That frame is so sticky. That's the end.

Now there are lots of things that could happen. Trump could have more lawfare problems. Anything could happen with either of their health. Somebody could jump in and replace Biden, etc. But I will tell you with confidence, if they're going to rely on his record and they're actually going to plan for the past against Trump the future-oriented here's what I'm going to do for you, there's no competition. It's just over. Unless there's massive cheating.

But I would add this. A young man can get away with bragging about accomplishments, right? So a young man can say look at all I've done, because that's actually a good argument and everybody would recognize it. If you're 35 and you're applying for a job, everybody expects you to say what have you done so far. That's apple. But when you're 81 and literally everyone is worried about your end date, you know your sell-by date is past, you can't get away with talking about your past because that just reminds everybody that you're done. Completely different vibe if you're a young man or woman versus older.

All right. It's getting real interesting with the Media Matters versus Musk thing now. You know Media Matters says they found these big companies with advertisements on X, and they were placed next to horrible racist stuff. So they talked to these big companies, Apple and IBM and some others, and they pulled their advertisement because they can't be associated with this stuff. Now as I've speculated, that's because these companies have DEI groups and probably their CEOs were on vacation. Because it would be the dumbest thing Apple ever did in its history if Tim Cook was behind this decision. Because he's going to eat this decision. It's not going to go down well, right? If Apple decides that they're on the fight against the only free speech entity in the United States, they're going down. I mean they're not going to go out of business or anything, but they're going to pay for that and it's going to be really expensive because a lot of people are not going to be happy with that.

Now if you were to make a list of the most racist corporations in America, who would be on it? If you were just an objective observer, and even if you were AI, you know AI isn't allowed to do this kind of thing, but if AI were just going to look objectively at the most racist corporations, Apple would be at the top. Yeah, IBM, Google, Disney, they would be at the top of the racist organizations. And by the way there's no argument about that. They do it overtly, publicly. They have entire divisions that are meant to discriminate against white men. They say it outright, directly. And there's no question about what it is. It's just absolute racism against white men. Now they would say it's for this good purpose, for diversity. I get that. But it doesn't make it not racism. It's still what it is. So these are literally the most racist companies in the country. Why don't we have a list for that? Why don't we have a list of the most racist companies? Because you know here's the thing. I was happy using my Apple products and enjoying them. You know, and I even had stock until recently. I don't have stock in Apple now. And I was going to kind of give them a pass for making phones with slave labor. I was like, I just don't want to think about it because I like my Apple. And then of course I knew that they were major discriminators against people like me. But I thought everybody does it. I'm not going to single them out. But now they just threw down against the only source of free speech in America. I can't ignore that. Like how much can Apple be a piece of racist scum before you say, huh, maybe I don't want to own this product? Now I don't see any way for me to get out of their ecosystem. I'm kind of trapped. But their reputation just went to because I'm going to say they're racists every day of my life until they advertise on the only free speech platform again. So they made an enemy of me. Like not that they care about that, but they definitely turned me into an enemy. And it's not just because they're doing something I don't like. It's because they're hypocrites doing something I don't like. You don't get to call somebody else a racist if you're the biggest racist organization in America. And they might be the worst racist company in America, probably like top 10. You don't get to call other people racists and get away with it.

So this is why I think Tim Cook must not be part of this decision. This has to be a DEI problem. Like they let the fox in the henhouse and now the hens don't get to make decisions anymore. That's what it looks like. But to make it more interesting, Soros, I'm sorry, Musk is going to sue M

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edia Matters. And allegedly they have some screenshots to suggest that Media Matters made up the story and that they did not have examples of bad content put next to advertising. And that the examples they found were so trivial compared to the total traffic on X that if you look at the data it actually proves that X is better than the rest in getting rid of that stuff. In other words it's not just…

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