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not fighting for me. I'm not going to fight for it. And if you're white, I wouldn't join the military. I mean, why would you? Find something you can do where you're not being discriminated against. And by the way, I would give the opposite advice to any person of color or woman. I would say you should go toward DEI because that would be your best strategy. So follow your best strategy. I'm not sa…

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, extreme weather, and societal polarization. War is down the list. Yeah, of course it was a woman. Let me explain to you women the inner life of a man, okay? If you've never heard this before, this will be shocking to you. But turn to the closest man and ask him if it's true. You get dressed up and go to a nice restaurant with your man. What you're thinking is, how do I look? How do the other people look? What am I going to order? You're thinking about your date. How does my date like me? How are we getting along? Do you know what your date is thinking? Let me tell you what your date is thinking. All right, we've got 15 men who look like they could be dangerous. There are the exits. What kind of things could I use as a weapon? I've got some forks. Don't have a steak knife yet. I think I could take the three by the door, but the guy over there, I'm going to have to throw something at him and just run. Unless I can get him from behind. I think I could fight my way out of here. Look at the comments, ladies. We're at war all the time. We're never not at war. You're at war when you're talking to your best friend. You are always at war. It doesn't turn off. And by the way, that's not a complaint. If it sounds like I'm complaining, I'm not. We're actually comfortable with that mindset because we're designed that way. It's like evolution just turned us into that, and we just embrace it now. But look at the comments. The comments are just all confirming. Yeah. So if a man writes, what are the biggest risks, he's going to say war. If a man writes this report, war right at the top. Do you know what's number two if it's a man? Economics. Do you know why economics is number two? Because you can't win a war unless your economy is really, really good. So basically this is a DEI kind of work. I'm not sure women should be judging risks on a global level. And that might be the most sexist thing I've ever said, but look at the result. This is a pure female product. Am I right? This is a female product. Yeah. I think you need the people who live war all the time to kind of tell you what your big risks are.

All right. Vivek, and he's campaigning hard in Iowa. Is it my imagination or is about half of all the news made about the election being made by Vivek? Is it only because that's what I see and people send me those tweets and stuff? But I feel like he's doing by far — I mean, maybe by a 5 to 1 ratio — he's doing the best job of creating positive news for his campaign. He creates a lot of news, and it's almost all interesting and positive and capable. But today again he's in Iowa, and he appeared with Steve King, retired representative from the state, and Candace Owens. Now Steve King was famously driven out of office in a sense by being accused of being a white supremacist. So now Vivek is standing there with somebody accused of being a white supremacist and with Candace Owens. And he laughs. He says that he's with these two other controversial people. He says, what will the media do? Will they call it the brown face of white supremacy? Which is a good comment, right?

So he jokes, and he says the media accused Steve King of racism and criticized me for failing to condemn, quote, white supremacy, whatever that means. That's what I want to hear. I want to hear after the two words "white supremacy," everybody who uses it, I want to hear somebody say "whatever that means." Because that's the important part. The "whatever that means" means it's subjective, and it's not a standard which you can use for government or anything else. If you can't put it into words and explain it, it's not a standard. You have to ignore it and mock it out of existence, which is what he's doing.

And then he says the visual image of Candace, Steve King, and me on stage together yesterday was inconvenient for their narrative. Sure was. Yeah. I mean, this is this little group of pirates. Oh, by the way, what do I always tell you I love about Trump's entire approach, not just to politics but life itself? I love Trump in his pirate ship approach to life. And what I mean is that in both his personal life and definitely his political life, if you're a pirate but you're on his side and you're pro-America, let's get together, pirate. You know, I'm going to forgive your pirating as long as you're pro-America. We can work with you. So he collects people accused of every damn thing in the world as his supporters, including me. People have been accused of every bad thing in the world, and he makes that work. And the reason Trump makes that work, he doesn't judge them. Just think about it. Trump might be the most opinionated person you've ever met. At the same time, he might be the least judgmental about just ordinary people. He doesn't talk about some group of citizens being bad. That's sort of Biden's territory. So I like the fact that Vivek is in that, at least a little bit in that model. That he would have controversial people like Steve King. Candace, of course, is popular among Republicans, but also she's a lightning rod in her party and out. So the fact that you can stand on stage and have support from two of the pirates is great. I love it.

And if you have a president who's planning to bring the country together, you stand on the stage with Steve King and Candace Owens, and you say we all want what's good for the country. That's good stuff. Good imagery. Good everything. That's just good everything.

Speaking of that, there was a video of Mike Benz driving his car, and I guess Mike is in Iowa, and Vivek's in the car, and he asks him some questions. And the topic was, as Mike Benz is the best describer of this situation, the government can't censor you directly. That would be illegal. So instead the government and all of its buddies in the private world, they have lots of money. They fund these external organizations

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that are allegedly non-government. You know, they're watchdogs and they're fact-checkers, and they're making sure there's no misinformation, disinformation. But of course they're largely fake, and they're just Democrat organs designed to promote Democrat policies and insult Republicans basically. So Mike Benz was asking Vivek what he would do about that. And I'm going to paraphrase a longer discus…

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