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favor of. You know, I'm not in favor of just revenge stuff, but this had no real impact on anything except a slap in the face to Biden, who just deserved a slap in the face. Again, not physically. We're talking mentally, slap in the face. But the reason that I think the public was so interested in this story, you know, yesterday when I did my man cave program, almost everybody who came in said, h…

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en he got reinstated. So Elon brought him back. He also had a little survey on X. 78% of the people on X, now it's of course not a scientific poll, but 78% said bring him back.

Now here's why I'm in favor of bringing him back. Because I can't live with a standard that you can be canceled for something you said that somebody else thinks is racist. Now in this particular case these were unusually clear, so they look pretty bad. But he's also unlikely to take those kinds of views into his adult life. You know, people change. So my problem with the whole topic is if you let this guy get canceled, what happens next, right? I don't want to say slippery slope because I hate that term, but what happens if you let them get canceled? They look for the next one, right? They look for another one to cancel. But the next one might not be so clear. Maybe the next one said one thing once. Canceled. Maybe they said something that wasn't bad but if you took it out of context it is bad. Canceled.

So as soon as you let the enemy, this would be the Democrats, as soon as you give them a loaded weapon they're going to start shooting. So what JD Vance did is not save a racist. If that's what you saw, you missed the whole show. What he did is save us. He saved the rest of us. Look, the story is he saved one guy by having a well thought out defense of people making mistakes and you know maybe we can not throw out the baby with the bathwater kind of thing. Maybe we should try to reconstitute him because he has value to the country. It was a good academic, I guess, good argument. People liked it. But by far the important thing is what it did for the rest of us. It made us safer because now I know that even if some try to make something up, that at least the top Democrats would say get the out of here. Am I right?

This is really, really big. And to me it's as big as DEI being canceled. If you can take the you're a racist, oh and also your brothers are racist, your sisters are racist, and everybody you know is a racist, and everybody's a racist, you're racist, you're racist. You have to disarm that. Because if you let them have that weapon they'll just use it all day long like a Gatling gun. And you saw what the last 10 years have been like. So yes, JD Vance may have defended 50 million people. So if you think it's a story about that one guy who said some that I don't like either, not really. It's a much bigger point.

Anyway, according to The Hill, there's a story about saving DEI in the private sector. So it's an opinion piece about how they have to work hard to save DEI in the private sector. And the title is "How Can We Defend the Private Sector from Trump's War on DEI?" They are literally asking how they can keep racism because DEI is canceled because it's racist. That's the reason. There wasn't any other reason. So how can you write an opinion piece on The Hill defending racism, which is what he's doing? Well, would you be surprised to know that it's a lawyer who works on these issues and gets paid the more DEI stuff he's doing? Follow the money. That's how you find out what's going on.

Trump apparently dismissed multiple members of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. So the Kennedy Center, I guess the board of trustees are a bunch of political appointees, and he decided that they were not on board with the golden age. And he didn't say so but I feel like they were too woke and that wasn't compatible with the golden age. So he just got rid of a bunch of trustees. And one of the trustees is former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. So Karine Jean-Pierre gets this appointment that's sort of a nice one. It's kind of a very respectful appointment. But as soon as she gets it, she gets fired. So she's lost two jobs this month. Good luck though.

CNN, I don't know, I think this might be an older one. This is an older video but somebody was showing it around because Project Veritas, now this is after O'Keefe left to do his own thing at OMG, but the people who still ran the old organization had some undercover video of CNN. There was basically some technical directors and producer types and they actually say out loud in direct words that their goal was to get Trump out of office. Their goal meaning CNN's corporate goal. Several people said it. It wasn't one person. Several people said, oh yeah, our goal was to get Trump out of office.

Now how could you watch CNN and think that's news once you've seen them undercover say oh yeah, yeah, we were just trying to get Trump out of office? How many Democrats even know that that video exists? And another said, quote, "Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right?" Without saying it, that's wha

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t it was, right? That's somebody who works there at a high enough level that they would know exactly what CNN wants as a corporate entity. Yes. So if you thought that CNN was news, you were wrong. They were propaganda. Let's talk about MSNBC. Joy Reid's being useless again. So she's attacking Musk because he's a private citizen. Oh, we can't have a private citizen, even though he's got top securi…

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