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t successfully with some postpartum depression stuff and there are emergency kind of situations where you just need somebody else. Somebody's got to help you. I think 20%. Now 20% is high enough that I'd try it you know like if I thought I needed something and I didn't know what else to do 20% is definitely high enough to try it if you could afford it. But just be aware they really don't make mone…

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named Mr. Toth in Austin is writing in the Wall Street Journal that the federal requirements that if you're a contractor for the government you have to have a certain amount of diversity he says that's clearly illegal and could easily be sued out of existence. I don't know about that. It's lasted a long time but the fact that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that DEI and well they're allowing somebody to write an article saying that DEI could be eliminated by lawsuits because lawsuits get stuff done. I don't know if there'll be any lawsuits on that. It seems like there would have been already but who knows.

I love how Biden has turned an election into a hate crime. Like every time I see Biden now I just hear the monster truck thing. Extreme MAGA. Don't you? Doesn't it now just sound like a joke? It doesn't seem funny. I mean it doesn't seem serious at all. It's not like they're even trying. Extreme MAGA. It doesn't even like that's it. Yeah you're going to attack the country.

And I have this question. If we're all big about self-identifying I can self-identify as LGBTQ or anything else. I can self-identify my gender. I can self-identify my race. But the only thing I can't self-identify is extreme MAGA. Why is that the exception? Why do you get to tell me I'm extreme MAGA? Where's my self-identity? Can you tell me I'm black and then I have to go through life as black because you told me I am? No. Can you tell me I'm gay if I don't think I'm gay? No. Can you tell me I'm a woman if I think I'm a man? No. So self-identifying is fine and encouraged except if you're extreme MAGA. Who by the way I've never met extreme MAGA. Have you ever met any extreme MAGAs? I see a lot of people put it in their profile because I think it's funny and it is funny. But extreme MAGA it's the only thing you can't self-identify and indeed people only do it because it's funny.

All right here are things that I believe should disqualify any candidate for president. There's lots more you could add to the list but these should definitely be on the list. You should be disqualified for president if you claim one gender is better at being president. That's got to be disqualifying. I mean Hillary Clinton said women are better. Nikki Haley said she'd be better because she's a woman. That's got to be disqualifying. It's just got to be you know.

If you have a DEI website on your campaign, if there's a page about DEI promoting it on your campaign that's got to be disqualifying. I'm thinking of Dean Phillips here that Bill Ackman who doesn't like DEI is promoting but he believes that Dean Phillips will learn through education that DEI is actually bad in practice. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Dean Phillips could remain a Democrat and get rid of his DEI statement and come out against it? Of course not. There's not even the slightest chance of that. There's not any chance of that. I mean he might quietly remove the page but he's not going to come out agai

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nst it and remain a Democrat. Can't do it. So that's crazy. If your campaign theme is if your campaign is built around demonizing one part of the public I think you should be disqualified. If Trump was saying that you know one part of the Democrats were dangerous and maybe they should be jailed how can you possibly support that? But that's what's happening on the other side. When they say extreme…

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