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hat they want you to believe. When they choose the words that are in the sentence, they're often telling you what they're thinking, but they're not aware of it. So that would be like a Freudian slip. The example my hypnosis instructor gave me, and I use this all the time, is if you're on a date, it's a new date, you don't know the person, and your date says to you instead of saying I'm famished b…

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agine that their allegations are not effectively true. I mean, maybe it's some detail or something, but directionally, yes, absolutely true. Absolutely true. So that's interesting. So it's another bad day for Harvard.

But let's see how things are doing in other places. Well, let me ask you this question. Imagine you were a CEO of a major American company, and you've got a DEI group in your company. And you're watching Harvard being sued because the DEI has caused the discrimination and the antisemitism, and the suit looks strong like they're going to win. And Harvard has been disgraced with their over-DEI stuff and ruined their reputation for who knows how long. Now you're a CEO of a company, and you're doing exactly the same strategy, a DEI group and putting a focus on it, the same strategy that literally is destroying the most respected upper education facility in the world and the whole world. And you're a CEO, and you're doing the same plan that you're watching destroy Harvard in real time. How do you justify that? Fear. Because you know if you cancel the DEI, you'll get canceled. Yeah. I can't imagine anything worse than this if you're a CEO. This has got to be embarrassing to be doing the same policy that is destroying Harvard while you watch. While you watch. Amazing.

All right. And End Wokeness is reporting — this is an exclusive from End Wokeness. They count on X that in the Denver public schools there was an internal memo sent to staff and teachers at Denver public schools with the Black Excellence pledge. And included in the pledge was that they want people to understand the prevalence and deep harm whiteness brings to students. Equity-based revisions to curriculum. So they want the curriculum changed so it's more equity-based and working to dismantle the system that allows certain students to excel and others to perish. And that it also states that all whites are racist and perpetuate racist ideologies, policies, and practices. So that's less than ideal. That's less than ideal. Yeah. How much do you need a Republican president now? It's like we're going to be begging for one. We're going to be begging for it.

All right. So Bret Weinstein announced today that he's removing a very early post that he made in the beginning of the pandemic in which he had argued that the requirement, the mandatory masking, was no big deal. And if it might help, it would be no harder than washing your hands. And that's pretty reasonable anyway. Now remember, context matters. This is the beginning of the pandemic when nobody knew exactly how bad things were or if for sure masks worked. Now there was an argument that the masks don't stop the virus because the virus is too small, but that hadn't been studied in a way that you could know for sure. So I would agree that Bret was accurate in his initial statement that if everything's up for grabs, we don't know anything because it's the beginning of the pandemic and it looks like it could be the worst thing ever happened to the world. It turns out it wasn't. But in the early part, it looked like it could be much, much worse than we eventually learned it was. As bad as it was, millions died, but it could have been worse. So I would say — and Bret is getting rid of the tweet, the post, not because he's changed his mind about what made sense in the beginning, but because people are having trouble distinguishing the early opinion from what made sense once you learn more. So he's deleting it, but he's doing it publicly and telling you he's doing it because he just — I guess he's tired of explaining himself. I'm okay with that. I'm going to back him on this. So I'm going to back him on removing the tweet. He's doing it publicly, so he's telling you he's doing it. He's telling you why. It's a good reason. And his initial opinion, he says he's modified and thinks his initial opinion was off base. What else do you want? Is there anything else you want from me? That's a perfect opinion. A perfect opinion. I got it wrong, but it was in a period where it was a fog of war, so people were guessing. Now I'm updating it. I'm telling you what I'm doing. That's everything, right? Do you agree? I want to hear if you're — I got no. So you're disagreeing because his initial opinion we knew later was wrong. Is that your standard? What kind of standard is that? Too little too late. He was one of the major voices against the mandatory everything. That was too little. He literally sacrificed his career for it. You're pretty tough graders here. Is it my job to defe

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nd him? I'm going to have to. No, you want more of him. I was listening to him on Tucker, and I was really taken by how well he explains complicated things. He really is a treasure. Now whether you agree with him is a separate question. I'm going to give you a little disagreement later. But his ability to explain a complicated thing is unparalleled. I mean, he's just the best. And his bravery of b…

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