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hink the historian sort of discounted it. How about the incumbent party candidate has charisma? Well to his credit the historian did say that Trump has the charisma and Kamala is not the charisma candidate. So that one he gave to Trump. How about the challenger is uncharismatic? No, again that one goes to Trump because he's charismatic. How about the White House had foreign policy success? What…

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t care. And that is not an argument that I need to pay for it.

You can make your little academic argument that connects all the dots and I can look at it on a piece of paper and I'll say yes I get that. That dot, yep that does connect. Those dots are all connected. You've made your point. But I don't care. And there's no reason I should care because nobody has magic special problems. We all got problems. I would take having the legacy of slavery if the tradeoff was that I got free college and I was 6'4" and looked good, you know, handsome, healthy, 6'4", free college. I'll take that. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'll take that.

And we don't see a lot of people pretending to be White to get into college, do we? No we don't. And do you think that the Asian-Americans should be paying some reparations when the only impact that Black people have had on their lives since they came in after slavery was a done deal, the only impact it had on their lives is that they got fewer jobs and they were victims of crime and now they're going to pay the Black Americans for something they had no connection to and

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indeed it should be paid the other direction? No, this is dumb, divisive, terrible, illogical, evil. And I hate you if you're looking at this as a reason to take my money that I worked for under a system that I was told that if I did all the right things I'd get to keep my money. And now Harris is making it very clear that if I do all the right things I still have to give the money to people who d…

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