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se. Let's take DEI for example. How do you defend DEI? It's literally unconstitutional because it's racist, and it guarantees that you end up like the Biden campaign with a forced fit of diversity, picking from a limited pool of people with less experience than David Axelrod and James Carville, and destroying yourself. Because on paper, DEI was going to cause exactly that. Now give me an example…

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le bunch of things that you were really scared of. Do you think you would be okay with Biden saying, oh no, no, that's just my supporters? You wouldn't. So it's only a half-hoax. It's a bad situation. And I do believe that Trump does not embrace the more controversial things in the document. But the Democrats are using it masterfully, I think.

But here's what's happening. Well, here's my persuasion tip. Here's what you should never do if you're running for office. Never let anybody who is on your team create a very lengthy document about what you're going to do. Because nobody's going to read it, and that means the bad guys can say anything is in it and you will believe them.

So for example, there are some new memes that are popping up making fun of the fact that nobody knows what's in it but people are afraid. Some of the memes are funny that Project 2025 has within it a suggestion to bring back cigarette vending machines in schools. I suggested that maybe Project 2025 has a clause in it that is recommending that we bring back shoulder massages at work. Don't you remember those creepy shoulder massages at work? Totally not allowed today. But I think Project 2025 wants to bring them back. How about flight attendants will be called stewardesses. They must be female and weigh less than 110 pounds. And the men who had been flight attendants, they'll get a new name. They'll be called pilots. They'll be called pilots now.

I'm just joking in case you're coming in late. If you're coming in late, no, I don't mean it. But my point is you have no idea what's in the 2025 document. I have no idea what's in there. And guess what? I'm going to talk about it for the next several months and I'm not going to look at it. That's what they count on. They count on the fact you'll never look at it. You've basically handed your enemy the best weapon of all time. Hey, we made a big dense document. Nobody will read it. We're going to tell everybody it's about sacrificing toddlers. Well,

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no, no, it doesn't have anything there. There's nothing in there about sacrificing toddlers. That'd be crazy. Yeah, we know, but nobody's going to read it. What? Yeah, we're just going to say you like sacrificing toddlers and it's right in the document. But it's not. Well, nobody's going to know. Good luck, suckers. Do not make a gigantic document before an election. Joel Pollak has a new book w…

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