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you would know that you did not mean that. So when this tweet said Jewish communities in the West, do you think there's any chance that he intended to mean every Jew in America? No. We all know that. Do you think that he included, now I guess the ratio I looked it up this morning, seven out of ten American Jews are Democrats. 70%. Do you think that Elon was including the 30% of conservative Jews…
← Previous segment →and it's costing them money. But they say it in big corporate way. Do you want to hear the big corporate way? You say, "Oh we went too woke and we ruined all our products and everybody hates us." Here's the corporate way to say it in public, quote: "We risk relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products." Yes, we're not aligned with the customers. How about our products are shit because we bowed to the woke people on the left.
Now when I say they bowed to the woke people on the left, here's a test. This will be a test. Did I mean every Democrat? Did that refer to 100% of Democrats? Of course not. Of course not. And every one of you understood, right? Did I need to say you know a lot of them or many of them or too many of them or there are too many of them in that group? No, no, no. Because since you're not trying to kill me and remove me from my platform, you just hear it the way I mean it. But if you were here to deplatform me you would say, "Oh you're saying every Democrat. How ridiculous of you to say every Democrat's like that."
All right. Henry Kissinger is dead. People have different opinions about him. And I would ask you the following question. If you think you can evaluate Henry Kissinger based on the historical record, how are they going to write the history of the Trump administration? Because someday that's going to have to be in a history book. And how will they write the history of Gaza in the last month or two? Just think about that. Who's going to write that history? And when it's written, would you believe it? Because there's certainly going to be an Israeli version of history. There certainly already is a version for the Palestinians. So which one is history? It depends, right?
So if a Democrat wrote a biography of Henry Kissinger, do you think that would be nice and clean and unbiased versus let's say a staunch Republican wrote a biography of Kissinger? Do you think it'd be different? Of course it would. So people were asking me all day yesterday because Kissinger died at age 100, they were saying give us your opinion of his legacy. Did he do more good than bad? And here's my answer: how would anybody know? It's completely unknowable. There might be things that if I looked at I would say oh I don't like that. There might be things I'd look at and say by today's perspective that seems very unwoke maybe. But if you're telling me I'm going to try to figure out whether Kissinger was mostly good or mostly bad, you know what's sort of the average? You don't know. There's literally no way to know. It's unknowable because you would be looking at historical records and t
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hings taken out of context and there's no way you could piece that together and have a reasonable opinion. No way. So I mean you could have an opinion and a sense of things, but if you have a high level of confidence in that opinion I think that would be unwarranted. So I would say he's probably somebody who did some good stuff and some bad stuff and I have no idea how it nets out. Well, Peter Ze…
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