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Thank you for buying my book. And Jonah, well, let's talk about what's in the news.
As you may have known, last week Rasmussen had a poll showing that President Trump had 34% or so support from African Americans. And people like me said, well that's not true. I saw that poll and the first thing I thought was, yeah, how did they ask that question? And then an Emerson poll came out soon after asking the same question and getting the same answer, 33, 34% support for President Trump among African Americans. And I thought to myself, what are the odds that there would be two polls that would get the same result? Yesterday there was a third. Three polls, three different companies have all found unprecedented support for President Trump by African Americans.
Now, does that translate into votes? Some of it, but we don't know. Now, are you surprised that the president has spent three years fighting to reduce immigration, primarily for the benefit of the African American population as well as others? But there's a bigger impact. And you're doing prison reform and lowering unemployment and helping the historically black colleges and having Opportunity Zones. I don't know, this might be real. If it turns out that it's real that the president has a third of the support from the African American community, I think Candace Owens needs some kind of a Nobel Peace Prize. I don't think they give Nobel Peace Prizes for domestic politics, but Candace Owens, as James says, I mean lots of other people are involved, but she's probably the most effective advocate for the president.
All right, so a weird and unusual and wonderful thing happened in Hong Kong, where most of the situation is dire and terrible. But after President Trump signed the legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by Congress, there were two bills that were sort of putting some pressure on China for what's happening in Hong Kong. I guess one put some pressure on the individuals involved. The other limits, I guess, limits the things that we sell to the police force. Now neither of those things has much impact. China is not going to be too influenced by those tiny little bills signed in America, but they don't like it. They don't like it at all.
And what was interesting is that the Hong Kong protesters gathered on Thanksgiving, which is not their Thanksgiving obviously, it's our Thanksgiving, with American flags and big posters of President Trump's head photoshopped onto the body of a muscular boxer. That's actually Sylvester Stallone. And they're there holding up the poster as sort of showing the power of President Trump. And I don't know about you, and apparently they were singing the national anthem or something. And I watched some of that coverage, just the photographs and the articles, and I gotta tell you I had a strong emotional reaction to it. I don't know if that happened to any of you, but watching people on literally the opposite side of the world, what they're basically saying, and maybe I'm reading too much into it so just tell me if you agree, I think what they're saying is that their only hope is President Trump. Now they wouldn't word it that way I'm sure, but the more I think about this situation the more I think that there's literally only one person on the planet that has any chance, should he try to do it, of protecting Hong Kong.
Think about that. There's seven billion people on the planet or so. Hong Kong is in desperate times. Obviously if China gets their way with Hong Kong, a lot of those protesters, their lives are over. And they gathered to wave American flags and show pictures of our president because I think they understand he's actually the only person out of seven billion people, he's the only one who can save them. Now I don't even know if he can save them. I don't know if it's practical. I don't know if it's good for the country. I'm not saying it's gonna happen. But I found it very powerful that they focused on President Trump as their sort of symbol of hope. There's a lot there. It takes a while to sort of process that thought that the United States through its electoral process produced a leader who is the only leader in the whole world, there's nobody else who could make any difference realistically, who could save them. It's a remarkable situation, certainly worth watching.
Now there was a tweet from an individual who's in the Chinese government, Li Shan Zhou. I hope I'm pronouncing it right. Zhao. And he's the, they have big titles over there, so he's the deputy director general, Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China. And his profile on Twitter says, "Try my best to tell the story of China and spread the voice of China." So he's sort of like one of the spokespeople for China. And he decides to tweet this. He said in Washington, talking about Washington DC, and I'm gonna read it the same way it's written so his English is a little bit broken. So I would just read it the way he wrote it. He says, "In Washington the White seldom go to Southeast area as it's an area for the black. President Trump even demanded four women lawmakers of color to go back and respect for President Trump. US and the black there please follow 'America First' policy and take care of racial discrimination." And then it goes on in a thread to talk about the bad conditions for African Americans in this country.
So their response to us meddling in their foreign affairs is to interfere with our election. Now it's interesting that they went for this target. President Trump is doing everything he can that's practical to help the African American community and apparently the polls are showing that they're recognizing that. We have three polls now showing unprecedented support for a Republican. And China's decided to go after that. They see that weakness domestically there like, "Ellis, let's stoke that racial division."
But is there anything that's happening in this country at the moment that could be compared to what China is doing with Hong Kong, what they're doing with the Uyghurs, splitting them with concentration camps, what they're doing with Falun Gong which is literally murdering them for parts and selling off their organs? Is there anything we're doing in this country that's even slightly as bad as any of the four Holocausts going on in China? The four are the Uyghurs, the Falun Gong, the fentanyl that they're sending to this country, and then Hong Kong.
Now I'm calling it a four Holocaust to trap idiots into debating it. Now if I've taught you anything, one of the best ways to get attention is to be wrong. Because when you say something that's just true it just kind of lays there. So, well it's true, doesn't have any power. But if you say something provocative that's a little bit wrong, people will pay attention because they want to tell you you're wrong. So I've been talking about the four Chinese Holocausts in progress and by throwing the Hong Kong into the mix, because they haven't killed a lot of people yet, people stop and say, "I don't know about this. Hong Kong is a fourth Holocaust? Yeah the other three I can see the point there but that fourth one I don't know. I don't think that belongs on the list." That's right. You have fallen for my trap. So I'll be saying publicly there are four Holocausts and letting people debate it. It's almost too easy.
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All right. Dr. Robert Epstein, you might remember him. He did some testifying in Congress about Google's potential bias. So now he's operating a study in which he has a whole bunch of people that are identified only within the study but not publicly, who are simply using Google and using regular search terms and stuff. And they're trying to see if they can get different results over time as the el…
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