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so. If I just do what you pay me to do which is look at the topic and then decide which way I think it goes independent of where the politics are, you will allow me to run the whole country. And all I have to do is do the thing that you paid me to do as opposed to all my co-workers who are doing the opposite of what you're paying me to do. Huh? Am I missing something? But seriously I have to ask…

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men. And the conversation didn't go much further after that. So that claim just sort of stayed there. Do you think it's true that the most educated demographic is Black women? It's almost true. It's actually almost true. It's not true if you look at the entire population of Black women compared to the entire population of other demographic groups. So that felt like that was the claim and that's definitely not true.

Is it my imagination or can you hear a leaf blower right outside my window? You can hear that right? Anyway that tells me what time it is I think.

Here's what I believe is true but I'll take a fact check on it. I've told you before that Black women are killing it in terms of careers and success. So I'm going to agree with Jasmine Crockett sort of directionally but she got the fact wrong. I think directionally I believe it's true that more Black women are getting college degrees than white men and more than Black men too. Is that true? Which would be impressive. Now it also presumably there would be a DEI element to that meaning some people are getting recruited and some people are getting tuition paid and stuff like that. So that's a factor. I don't know how much of that is but you don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

So on one hand I think it's a completely racist and inaccurate claim that Black women are the most educated group in the country. I think it's just plain false. But I think what she was getting at is true which is that Black women as a class at the moment, the young ones who are getting a college and getting their first jobs and stuff, they are killing it. They are killing it. So I like to give full congratulations to any group that works hard and gets what they want. So congratulations. I say the same thing about the LGBTQ group. I think they've really killed it in terms of improving their overall situation. I'm so impressed about how they've changed their situation in a few decades. Very impressive. And Black women, same thing. They are in fact killing it but they haven't overtaken the other groups yet because there's a lot to overtake, a lot of work to do. But it's certainly racist to imagine that her group is the most educated. So if it's just a factual thing I don't think a white person could have said that. What if Scott Jennings said you know the white people are the most educated in the country? Ouch. I don't know if that's true by the way but he wouldn't be able to say it but she could say it and nobody

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challenged it even though it wasn't true. So to me that's more racist than not even though I support the general idea that Black women are doing great lately. Elon says it's going to take years to rebuild LA. When they try to get permits it's going to be a problem. And I put out the following statements about rebuilding that you should know that I'm asking for a fact check so I don't know which o…

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