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ay. But I'm like, so I go back to DoorDash. I go, all right, and I try to order bananas and then something went wrong because my brain wasn't working again. But I successfully put in the order and I have to wait a few hours. I'm like, oh, if only that banana would come, everything would start getting better. If I could get the banana. I just need one banana. That's all I need. Finally DoorDash co…

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t this time for already a year because he's done so much? Like time doesn't make sense anymore. But here's another one. Doesn't it sound like this didn't come from this era when you hear that somebody wants to dismantle white supremacy? Which two months ago was sort of normal, but now it just feels like, what? What are you, from the past? Am I the only one having that feeling that somehow just even reading it, like really, dismantle white supremacy? What year is this? It's not 2025, is it?

Anyway, my question to Ben and Jerry's is, do they still sell vanilla? Because I feel like that's a little bit white supremacist. Vanilla. You should get rid of vanilla.

But here's what I think is going to happen, whether it's Ben and Jerry's or Costco or somebody else. It seems to me that somebody is going to buy one share in their parent company, Unilever, which is not a US company, so you'd have to buy something called an ADR, but I think you can do it. I think it works. I'm not positive. So maybe Ben and Jerry's isn't the first place to start. But what's going to happen is some shareholder is going to buy one share just to press them on the DEI. And they're going to say, I'm suing you for these policies that are clearly bad for stockholders. Because now that the government under Trump has declared that DEI is literally racist, how can a company keep doing it without being accused of literally being racist? So it's a pretty big risk for all the companies. Sooner or later somebody's going to sue one of them and say you better get rid of this now that it's government labeled racism. It's pretty risky to have that still going on if you've got stockholders.

As Cory DeAngelis points out in an article in Fox News, the next place for Trump to ban DEI would be the schools. The schools need to stop the DEI now. I assume even though the schools are mostly locally run that the government has enough influence through funding or something else that they could ban it in schools. That's really, really important because if we don't kill it in school we're dead because it'll just be another generation of DEI idiots. So yeah, Cory DeAngelis is right on this one. Schools got to be next, and colleges too.

I was watching Marc Andreessen. I think he was talking to Lex Fridman. And I am so impressed with Marc Andreessen. Transformative, what would you say? I think he's emerging from a business leader to maybe a social and political leader. But I knew he was smart, Marc Andreessen, but I didn't know how smart he was. And now that I'm listening to him talk, oh my God, my God, he's smart. Like just crazy smart. And he's smart in exactly the way the country needs, which is he can explain the most complicated things in the simplest, completely understandable ways. And he seems to have priorities straight, etc.

Now I didn't realize that he was advising Trump. I don't know if he's advising him on specific topics or more generally. I'm not sure. But wow. When you hear that Trump is being advised by, you know, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, you know, like this is crazy. This is the best advice any human ever received. Like how are we so lucky? It's amazing.

But anyway,

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one of the things Marc Andreessen said, he was dumping on Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock. And he said that Larry Fink fell for every idea in the world. Those are his words. Of course I'm much too nice to use that, but I'm quoting because apparently it's semi-approved at the moment. So he was saying that the DEI and the ESG and the zero point whatever. So yeah, I love to see a hugely important b…

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