you had DEI, fake news, and fake polls. That's what took Biden down. It wasn't Biden. He was the recipient of the worst help anybody ever got because all they cared about was Trump, Trump.

So yeah, stop blaming Biden ultimately. He's the guy in the job, so he gets it. I understand how it works. Biden's in the job, so he has to take the hit. But honestly, none of it would have happened if all of the people around him had done their jobs. None of it. He would have looked at the news same as we did and said, oh, that doesn't look good. There's no way I'm going to win with this kind of news coverage.

Anyway, so before we talk about that continuing resolution, which of course I will, I am continually entertained by how the Democrats can't figure out what went wrong. Now, just as my prior example, they think Biden was the problem. No, it was the news. It was the polls. It was his advisers. But they get pretty much everything wrong because to understand it correctly would be quite damning to their own capabilities.

So the way cognitive dissonance works is if you don't want to accept something that says you're stupid or that you did a bad job, so you just imagine that something else happened. That's how cognitive dissonance works. So you remember how they were running when Biden was running — I'm sorry, when Harris was running against Trump and Biden before that. They were doing all these generic complaints. You know, the generic complaints were Trump's going to end democracy. And people were saying, but gas is too expensive. Could you talk about that? He's Putin's best friend. All right, but could you talk about the price of eggs?

And so you would think that the one thing that they would most understand is that this conceptual stuff is not hitting anybody in the fields. They don't have anybody good who understands persuasion on their team apparently at the moment. It looks like they have nobody who understands the basics of persuasion. No, "end democracy" isn't touching anybody.

So now that Trump's elected, there's a Hill opinion piece in the publication called The Hill, and the title is "Trump will turn America's justice system into a tool of political revenge." What's that sound like? It's more "end democracy" stuff. They didn't learn anything. They didn't learn anything. That talking in these generic ways about he's going to be a tool of political revenge, it just doesn't hit. You just want to be able to pay for your gas and your eggs and make sure that you're not — the country isn't destroyed by invading migrants.

But it makes you wonder why they stopped saying their other generic thing. Do you remember their other generic thing? They used to say nobody's above the law, and they would say it about Trump because they were lawfaring him. You know, all these illegitimate legal processes, illegitimate in my opinion. And every day was like, no one's above the law, no one's above the law.

So now that Derek Chauvin got permission to have George Floyd's heart and some of his juices tested — somehow I guess there's some skin tissue that was saved and they could find out if he died for reasons related to maybe a heart condition, and that would potentially get Derek Chauvin out of jail. Now what would be the problem with somebody asking for some evidence that wasn't included in the trial? But everybody who hears the story knows, oh, that would have been good evidence to be in the trial. So it's a person who was convicted, and he simply wants to make sure that the trial did include all the correct evidence.

So what does the Biden Department of Justice say when somebody says, can we include the real important evidence such as the quality of his heart at the time he died? Very, very obvious, simple thing we'd all want to know. And the Biden Department of Justice is deciding to try to fight it and deny him the chance to look at the health of the heart, the heart muscles or whatever it is they saved.

Now what happened to no one's above the law? What happened to caring about the rule of law and the democracy? Because you know what? Derek Chauvin, when he requested this extra evidence, he did it completely within the confines of the legal process. He didn't steal it. He's not trying to kill somebody to get the specimens. He had legal lawyers do legal things according to the legal process. And everybody with common sense would say, yeah, you know what? Even though he was convicted, he has a right to see that stuff. He absolutely has a right to see it.

So yeah, it feels like the Democrats just want to be on whatever is the dumb side.

Meanwhile, Harvard of course was forced to back off from its DEI hiring practices where it was discriminating against Asian Americans and against white Americans mostly. And so now we can see the result of that, and their law school admissions, the Black enrollment dropped by more than half. So is that good or bad? Well, Democrats of course seem to have some trouble understanding where the problem is. The problem is definitely not Harvard's admission process. That is not what's keeping any Black person from succeeding. But definitely the quality of their undergraduate or their regular school. Definitely the quality of their school and their income situation. Those would make a big difference.

So if you think th