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you could say I'm rational about everything but honestly I'm going to point out this one thing and I'm going to tell you as directly as I can I'm not going to be rational about this and here's why. If you could make that case you almost win the negotiation from that point on. You have to sell your own irrationality. That sounds backwards doesn't it? That if you're negotiating with somebody you hav…

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ing about 2024 is watching DEI destroy the Democratic party because that's what's happening. So DEI as you know would be the favoring of minority and women over white men primarily but also Asian Americans. And in this case DEI caused the Democrats to hire Kamala Harris as the vice president. And I don't think there's anybody listening to this who would disagree that she's a DEI hire. Is that fair? Because I can't imagine it was because of capability, right? Would everybody agree that she's a DEI hire and it's obvious right now? Likewise just to be fair if Trump picked Tim Scott I would say that's a DEI hire even though Tim Scott's a solid senator. Would you agree? I mean it would be sort of too on the nose. It was like okay all right it's because you're black, right? Now if Trump picked as his vice president Vivek Ramaswamy I would not say it's because he's brown. I would say we just watched him impress the country with the best communication skills and political policies I've ever seen, right? So it would be hard to sell that one as a some kind of minority DEI thing. That would be a genuine case of the, I'll call it the Bill Ackman style of diversity or really what Mark Cuban wishes it were but it isn't, which is you pick the best person and whoa they're brown too. Then you get yourself some free diversity. But if you're not getting it for free then it's a DEI hire. Tim Scott's solid. Tim Scott is solid but you would see it as a DEI hire because he's not Vivek. If Vivek didn't exist I might feel differently. He's such an obvious better choice.

So here's what makes it funny. Because Kamala Harris was hired as vice president, Biden can't quit because everybody knows that she's too weak to take over for the president which was the entire point of a vice president. The entire point is you have to be smart enough, good enough to take over. Now you could argue that Pence wasn't as strong as Trump but you know what he could have taken over. You could imagine him winning an election. I could. I could imagine it. But you know I don't, he's not, it wouldn't be my choice for president either but you could imagine it. He's like he's a serious person, right? But Kamala, I don't even think the Democrats think she has a chance or would be the right person for president. So they've gotten themselves in a bind where they can't get rid of Biden and they also can't win with him. They can't get rid of him and they can't win and it's only going to get worse because he will keep degrading between now and election day in theory.

The DEI hire should make Biden lose bad when in fact it would be an obvious solution if she were a strong candidate, right? The obvious solution would be, oh well Kamala can take over and I'm not feeling so good and she could win this election as easily as I could. Go ahead. Obvious. An obvious solution. But they can't do it because they hired her. They can't fire her. Can't replace her with another black woman. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine? Because some people say that Michelle Obama. Let me tell you why Michelle Obama can't happen. 100% can't happen. You're not going to replace a black woman with another black woman. It would make it look like the whole thing was a joke. It kind of looks like that now but no you're not going to do it.

So here's what I think is going to happen. Kamala Harris got hired as a DEI hire. She's made it impossible for the

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m to win the presidency. And if you lose a presidency that hard usually has a down-ballot effect, right? Am I right? I mean usually people don't say we like all the Democrats for Congress but we want a Republican president at the same time on the same ballot. They don't usually say that. So it's more likely they're going to say, you know what, let's give the Republicans a shot. Or you know what, l…

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