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tituting weed for stronger drugs? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it works the other way, but I don't have data on it. Maybe the government is giving out fewer Subutex prescriptions, so fewer people are getting hooked. Maybe. I don't know. But certainly there was action in that direction. But I'm going to offer the most provocative idea for why maybe ODs went down a little bit for that one year. I thi…

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know what? Why are you pretending that you have to lower the quality of people to get enough diversity?

Now she said that in public, which suggests that she doesn't understand human motivation or how anything works, and somehow doesn't understand that systemic racism has made it impossible to not choose between diversity and quality because the pipeline is too small. It has nothing to do with anybody's genes, has nothing to do with culture. The school system does not create a pipeline of people that corporations need in terms of the talents.

So here's the problem, and again it's what Democrats don't understand. If there had never been DEI, if there had never been DEI, and I saw Representative Crockett and I found out that she had done all of these things and also had gotten elected to C

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ongress, do you know what I would say about her if there had never been DEI? I would have said, wow, she might be more capable than everybody in Congress. Because if she had to overcome things like being Black and being a woman in a world where that was not a free pass, I would have said, huh, you know, all things being equal, probably better than average because potentially maybe she overcame mor…

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