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and everything looks like racism because you could sort of rationalize it to make anything sound like one of those two things. So it would be just a gross attack on free speech. But it looks like X hired some lawyers and it looks like it's going to be blocked at the moment. The court struck down the key censorship provision according to Reclaim the Net's D.D. Rankovic. So this is really huge. And…

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this is war. You can try to censor us but we're not giving up the First Amendment. So you tell us how expensive you want to make this because there's nothing we're not going to do to make sure that we're not censored. You can censor yourself, put yourself out of business as a real country, but you're not going to do it to us. And I think that Trump, again one of the magic parts of Trump is that he doesn't bluff. So when Trump says we're coming for you if you don't change this they know he's coming. And Brendan Carr is like chief gladiator. So if he's coming for you he's fully supported by Trump. So we'll see where this goes but I love the fact that Trump is completely at war and isn't going to take this. It's just completely unacceptable. We're going to do whatever it takes.

Meanwhile update on the DEI dominoes. So DEI has been falling everywhere. Even BlackRock decided to get out of it. The big banks are getting out of it. Now today Arizona universities are quietly deleting their DEI language according to Cronkite News. Now I don't know if that means they're just hiding it but it means that they understand there's a risk and so they're operating based on risk which is what we want. Also the University of Southern California is going to scrub their DEI stuff out of their other documents and stuff. And again I don't know if that's just hiding it. It might be hiding it but still step in the right direction. If they have to hide it that feels like a little bit of a win. It's a half win.

And then apparently there were some CIA officers who were fired because they were part of the DEI programs for the CIA. And according to Natural News a judge just upheld Trump and DOGE's ability to fire them for just being part of the DEI. They didn't need a better reason. So that was a reason and so that's going to stick.

One of my big questions is how will history treat DEI? Because you know if you went back in history and let's say it was right in the middle of slavery, what do you think the news said about slavery in the South? The news in the South it was probably like yeah things are working real good. Of course we got a lot of slaves so production is up. We had a good ball. Don't you think that while it was happening it was treated like a positive because otherwise it wouldn't have been there? But then you know a few hundred years later we quite rightly call it like one of the worst things we've ever done. And we've done some bad things but we all understand okay that's just that's right near the top of the worst things we've ever done.

What do you think DEI will do in the future? I have a dream. I have a dream that it will be treated by historians as just evil. Now it's not going to be full slavery evil or Jim Crow evil but it's right up there with Jim Crow. So it's like 40 years, roughly 40 years I think, of absolute over-discrimination against one category of people and lives were ruined, careers were ruined, the economy was suffering I think. It's just one of the darkest, worst, messed up parts of American history and I just wonder if history will ever record it that way or if they'll say well all the good people tried for decades to make things better but the evil Republicans shut it down after 40 years of being terribly successful. Now it wasn't called DEI for 40 years but it was affirmative action, same thing. So I'm hoping history will get it right and say this is one of the worst things that the country's ever done. We've done worse but it's one of the bad ones.

All right this is funny and also predictable. Do you remember when the UK and France were meeting to figure out what they could do about Ukraine and then they came out of t

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hat meeting and it sounded like oh looks like there's a little bit of unity there. So the UK and France were talking about maybe putting boots on the ground. And I thought well it starts with two of the more important countries and then they'll slowly be collecting their allies and maybe they've got this, maybe they figured it out. But instead apparently what we just learned is that Germany walked…

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