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? Well, it allowed me to oversimplify and ignore the real trauma inflicted on marginalized communities. Okay, we're getting closer. What would be an example of the real trauma inflicted on the marginalized communities? Just one example. So what exactly is a trauma inducer? Can you give me any example of that? Apparently not. Rasmussen did a poll asking people about their preferences for Democrats…

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as a candidate was a good idea. What percent of the people who answered? Does anybody know? You know I don't have to tell you. You know that's right. If you guessed 25%, you were very close. The answer is 23%. Yep. 23% of respondents thought that Harris would be a good idea.

How in the world could you go through that last election cycle and conclude that Kamala Harris is your best player? Like I always say — so for those of you who are not in on the inside joke here, I'll bring you in. The inside joke is that I always tease the pollsters that for every poll there's always at least one answer that's really stupid. There might be several answers that you know are reasonable but maybe you disagree. But there's usually one answer, no matter what the topic is, there's usually one answer that they get that's just stupid. And I would say that favoring Kamala Harris as your champion for 2028, that kind of falls into stupid. I don't think that's just a preference, is it? Would you call that a preference? It just looks like you weren't paying attention at all.

Eric Dolan over at PsyPost tells us there's a new study about what percentage of Americans think that we're heading toward a civil war. You know, if you spend any time on social media, people just casually say it's time for this ci

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vil war. You know, grab your gun. And I always wonder how many people actually think that the US is close to a civil war. Because again, I don't know what hellscape that is you're living in, but I don't know anybody who's close to a civil war. It's just you see some strangers on social media say, yeah, it's time for that civil war. But I don't know a real person who thinks the civil war is necessa…

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