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individual. But I do know that in the context of DEI they've created a situation where it's my first assumption, my working assumption. Now do you think that's good for black people that when I see a black leader who's not getting it done that I think it's because of DEI not because necessarily there's something wrong with the person? That's a whole different conversation. The person might actual…

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't think there's a meeting where somebody said hey let's destroy the country in a variety of ways. I think what it is is a lot of young people especially may be seeing that the elites stole everything that's worth stealing and left them nothing but crumbs. Now if I were 20 years old and I thought the elites in both parties had stolen everything good and polluted the world and left it a ashen crumbly mess with nothing but debt and war I would want to destroy that system. And it wouldn't matter what happened. I'd be like okay well anything you want to turn the boys into girls yeah go ahead I'm down for that. What could go wrong?

So I do want to take your time to look at it. It's on my X feed. I posted it today. So strong. So congratulations to Blake Haban and whatever Western Lensman did. I'm not sure who did what. I think Blake might have produced it actually I'm not sure but they work together on it in some way. But it's amazing. It's probably the most persuasive thing I've seen of a campaign ad.

New York Times has a guest opinion today and the title of the guest opinion is Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe. So is that scary to see that the paper of record is running an opinion piece that says government surveillance of all the citizens can keep you safe? You know everybody always says oh this is so 1984. This is the most 1984 thing I've ever seen. It would be hard to top this one. That's a topper. But the thing is I actually agree with it. It does keep you safe. It just takes your freedom away. That's always the tradeoff. You know the government can do lots of things to keep you safe. Lock you into your house but you in the long run maybe you're not too happy about it. I think this government surveillance probably goes a long way to explaining why we haven't had worse terror attacks since 9/11. I feel like the fact that we have no privacy is the only reason there haven't been major terror attacks. I think that a lot of stuff must be getting thwarted in its infancy because they have complete ability to monitor just literally everything. So that's the most positive thing you put on it. But no I'm not in favor of the government surveilling every single thing we do but I think it's a fact and it's not going to change.

Here's about this. There's a business called Sheetz. I don't know what they do. Sheetz. And they're being sued by the government, Biden administration, for discriminating against minorities. And specifically the form of discrimination is they require applicants to pass a criminal record background check. So Sheetz doesn't want to hire people who have criminal records. But since there are more people with criminal records in the underserved communities that would be now illegal according to the Biden administration. So the Biden administration wants to force this company to hire convicted felons.

So but you know what's ridiculous? You know w

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hat's ridiculous? I mean really do you really think there are 25 different ways that the Biden administration is trying to literally destroy the country? Maybe 26. Maybe 26. Because this clearly is bad for the country. It couldn't be any worse for the country. And here it is and they're going to spend a lot of resources on this. Of all the things that the Biden administration could do to root out…

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