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of view which will not tolerate somebody sitting next to you debating it politely. Let that sink in. Misinformation is any information that is presented without the counterpoint. And I mean a legitimate counterpoint. A polite person who's not talking over you who's simply sitting there and presenting the other side. And of course you would have the chance to speak back. It's always disinformation…

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er response to being caught red-handed in this sketchy situation? Well it's probably racism she says. Probably racism. Surprise. And according to Rasmussen 50 percent of those they polled believe the allegations against Fani the district attorney. They believe the allegations basically and they think that she had an improper relationship. Again that's not illegal but ethically it's a bottom of the barrel. So the most unethical DA got busted for that anyway.

All right let's talk about Bill Ackman. As you know Bill Ackman was successful in getting the president of Harvard to step down and you know he's anti-DEI now. So he's always voted Democrat but he was very anti-DEI when he found out what that was all about in Harvard. So now he's educated about that and he says that if you haven't figured it out already it is now abundantly clear that Trump is going to crush Biden in the election. Now that does seem abundantly clear if Trump makes it all the way to election day. I don't think it's abundantly clear that he's going to make it to election day. You know we could just say that out loud now because I do think the bad guys are that bad. I don't know it'll happen. I'm not predicting it'll happen but they are that bad. Yeah we're we do live in that world and we need to grow up a little bit.

But Bill Ackman decides he's going to back the challenger or I guess the main challenger you could say to Biden which is Dean Phillips. However it is an awkward discovery that Dean Phillips has on his website a pro-DEI statement. So the anti-DEI guy has decided to back the pro-DEI guy for president. Now people of course pointed that out. Hey Bill Ackman we like what you did there in Harvard but do you know you're backing a pro-DEI candidate? What does Bill Ackman say who is no quitter by the way? He's not a quitter. He says that Phillips didn't understand DEI and that he expects that statement will be changed soon because they're educating him about what DEI really is. So no problem. Yeah once he corrects that little imperfection then he'll have a good package to take forward right? Because that's kind of a small thing isn't it? Little small thing. No Bill Ackman it's not a small thing that he was a racist this week. He's a racist this week. I'm not going to vote for him next week because he edited his web page. No Bill you got to give up on this one.

And by the way I love Bill Ackman like huge fan. I'm sure it's not reciprocal so I'm not depending on him liking me for me to like what he's done. I like what he's done period. He's a patriot. He's a plus in terms of the stuff he's done here. I don't know what else he's done in his life but everything I saw him do I liked a lot. But this is my friendly advice. You can't back a guy who had a DEI statement on his. He's just a racist or he's a racist enabler or worse. He didn't understand the biggest issue in the country and he's running for president. This is the biggest issue. This is the biggest issue. Yeah if you think and because this issue permeates all the other issues it's why you're afraid to fly it's why the cities are full of immigrants it's why property crime is high it's why our budget is breaking. It's DEI. And Dean Phillips didn't know that the core problem in the United States was a problem? No that's not a small problem to correct. That is game over. You're done if you ever had that on your website. You're done.

So I know I do love that Bill Ackman is a fighter so he'll probably stay with it but my advice is to just cut your losses. I don't know what he needs to do instead because I mean he's not going to back a Republican it looks like but you just can't back the guy who had a DEI statement. You just can't do that. There's no place to work with that. So that was a hell of a bad start.

And now if Bill Ackman would like to stick with Dean Phillips I have some further questions for him to ask. Hey Dean Phillips tell us your view on climate change right? What do you think Bill Ackman's going to say when he hears this guy's view on climate change? I don't know what it is but he's a Democrat so do you think Bill Ackman believes the climate change alarmist and wants to get rid of fossil fuels as quickly as possible? There's no way Ackman's going to hear the actual arguments pro and con and back the Democrat side because we've seen him in action. He's too smart for that.

Now keep in mind Ackman also didn't realize that DEI was a toxic time bomb right? So as smart as he is whic

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h is super smart that was a little blind spot. Does he believe that was his one blind spot because I don't think so. I think he needs to know that climate change is another blind spot even if it's a real problem separate from the conversation of what's real and what's not. The way it's presented and the solutions that are presented get rid of fossil fuel right away. These are not serious people an…

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