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hy is it that Trump is doing so well? It's because he's picking policies and also people to implement them who are excellent and very popular. It's not really some kind of weird mystery. If Democrats simply did what Republicans are doing, pick popular things and promote them and get the right people hired to implement, if you just did that, I believe that your reputation would be repaired quite qu…

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k Americans like pets. And what I mean by that is there's this horrible assumption that in order for black Americans to succeed, it is necessary for white Americans to act differently. And there's no sense that black Americans could just do their own thing like everybody else in the world. Why are they the only group that can't succeed unless white people do something differently? And Republicans, I believe, say everybody can succeed. You just have to do the things that successful people do. How about staying out of jail? How about paying attention in school or learning a trade and making sure that you're a productive, valuable member of society? That works pretty much every time. Every time.

So, I find myself almost revolted when I see Democrats treating black Americans like it's the only group that can't succeed without the white people doing something different. And you know, my opinion, what I found out when I got cancelled is that black Americans did not want any advice from white Americans. If we were going to invest, they would certainly talk about that, you know, if there's money involved, but they weren't looking for our good ideas. And I feel like I would agree with them, say, "Oh, how about I just shut up and leave you alone? How about I just stay out of it because you really don't need me to succeed when I imagine that

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other people need me to succeed?" That's not really fair, is it? So anyway, that's my take is that you shouldn't treat other people as pets. You should assume that if they do the right things, they'll get the right outcomes like everybody else. Well, the Democrat party continues to collapse. So as you know, they have no policies anybody cares about and they have no leaders that are identifiable a…

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