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did, I don't know if that rescue of free speech is what ended wokeness. I feel like what might have ended it is finding out that most of the country was against it and Trump made it illegal, at least the DEI part. He made it illegal. Also the trans athletes on women's teams. So I feel like Trump is the one who did it by simply making it illegal to be woke at a point where it's destructive to soci…

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break down your door and say, all right, your family's been here for four generations, but Trump has decided to deport you somewhere to a country you've never had any association with? Apparently Democrats believe that's real.

So they think that citizens will be deported. What? So they think that their health care will go away even if they deserve it, which is not true. And they think that the deporting won't stop until they get all the Democrats, I guess. But they might hate the fact that Planned Parenthood is being majorly defunded by the big beautiful bill. Now by defunded I don't mean that they lose all their money. I think it's like a quarter of their funding or something they get from the feds. So they're going to lose about a quarter of their funding, somewhere in that neighborhood.

But does that mean that the government should continue to pay for it? You know, I prefer to stay away from the whole argument about abortion because I think men such as me should just stay out of i

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t and whatever women work out, you know, I'll go along with that. Because if the situation were reversed and I were a female, I wouldn't want men to have an opinion on abortion. I'd say stay out of it. You just stay out of it. Let the women figure it out. So I apply the same standard as a man. I say, oh, okay. If I were you, I'd want me to stay out of the argument. So I do. I have nothing to add t…

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