all of you. That's why literally nobody claims to be white if they can also claim to be Black. Even Obama downplayed his whiteness, half white, because being Black was his advantage and he knew it.

So how do you fix that? Because I don't think this model fixes it because they hate the white guys and the red hats. So anything those guys say is not going to stick. But I keep thinking if I could mentor an 18-year-old Black kid, the first thing I'd say is, all right, you know that you have a huge advantage in employment, right? And a huge advantage in getting scholarships and a huge advantage in complaining. You have an advantage in almost everything. And if you find a place where you don't have an advantage, let's say a small business or something that's discriminating, because that would still exist, don't go there.

I would say, oh yeah, there are companies that might discriminate against you. But not big ones, not a Fortune 500. They're not going to discriminate. They're going to discriminate in your favor every time. So go there. Just don't go where you think there might be some discrimination. I'll tell you where to go and you'll get a job every time.

How about if you were a young Black professional and you wanted to get some mentoring, but you look around and there are no other Black faces in senior management. Do you think you'd have trouble getting a white executive of your company to agree to mentor you? No, you would not have trouble getting that. They would say yes before you finished the sentence. Hi Mr. So-and-so, I wondered if you could men— Yes. No, you're going to get a yes before you finish the sentence. You're going to get a yes for mentoring, a yes for financing, a yes for hiring, a yes for college applications, a yes for medical school, a yes for law school. How do you not know that if you're an 18-year-old Black guy? How do you not know that all the advantages, the racist advantages, are in your direction? I don't know.

So but the college debates are not going to change anybody's mind about that. You need some entirely different process.

Well, you probably heard that Jezebel, which is a disreputable lying piece of an organization that I'm surprised is still in business, but it's a bunch of feminists and horrible people. Not that feminists are horrible people, but they're feminists and horrible people. They happen to be both. And apparently they paid some witches that they found on Etsy to curse Charlie Kirk two days before he was assassinated. And they actually published that. I think they published it after he was assassinated. And they published that they got witches to try to kill him and he got killed. So apparently Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, was genuinely rattled by it.

Now I'm not a believer in witchcraft, so I would not have been too worried about the witchiness of it, but I'll tell you what I do believe in: affirmations. And I worry, I don't have proof of this so this is a little bit of woo-woo on my part, but doesn't it seem that the things that happen in life are the things we're thinking about the most? In my personal life, the way my life has turned out is very much similar to whatever I thought about and wanted the most, to the point where it looks like how could that even be a coincidence that the things I thought about the most actually happened? Good and bad. Good and bad.

My cancer I've been thinking about since my 20s. This specific cancer, not just cancer. Prostate cancer. I've been worried about it and obsessed about it since I was in my 20s. I started researching it in my 20s in anticipation of getting it. Now is that coincidence? Well it's the most popular or common cancer for an adult man. So on one hand it's just a coincidence but not even a big one. But I do worry that when people focus too much on one outcome there's a weird bias toward that thing happening that I've noticed all my life and it could be just my imagination. Yeah, maybe there's nothing to it. But when I hear that a bunch of witches and some writers at Jezebel all started to think about a bad thing happening to one person at the same time and on the same day, I wonder. I don't believe in witchcraft, but I do wonder if we live in a simulation where you can cause it to collapse on a certain set of realities based on what you're thinking about. I wonder.

The Trump administration wants Congress to end what is called anti-racist teacher training grants to universities. The College Fix is writing about this as well. Now you might say to yourself, wait a minute, why would you want to end anti-racist? Wouldn't that be like agreeing with racists? No, the anti-racist stuff was the racist stuff. The anti-racist stuff is basically saying that white people suck and white men suck more than the rest of white people. So no. Yes, the anti-racist stuff is racist. Just overtly, obviously, no question about it, way over the top racist. And yeah, I want that halted.

According to the New York Post, Trump is stopping, I guess there had been a regular report on food insecurity, but like everything else it turned out to be fake data. And the food insecurity would include anybody who wasn't sure if they could get food in the future. So it's not people who are hungry or don't have food. It's people who just feel insecure about being able to have it in the future. And I'm not sure that's telling you what you need to know. So probably was a waste of money. They stopped that.

Well, over in Denmark, there's some drones that have been plaguing them over airports and whatnot. So multiple drones last few days. And the assumption was in the beginning that it was Russia and they were just messing with a NATO country. Do you believe that Russia decided to skip over other countries and plague Denmark in particular? Does that make sense that they wouldn't be doing it to France and Germany and Great Britain, but they decided to pick on Denmark of all places and then to put a bunch of drones in the sky?

Now some people are saying, but wait, we don't know that these are Russian drones. We don't. Maybe they're UFOs. Maybe this is the same problem that the USA had. So but here's my takeaway from this. Are you telling me that Denmark can't shoot down a drone? Like any drones? They don't have any way to shoot down a drone. Seriously, Denmark, a NATO country, can't shoot down a drone that's loitering. It's not like the drones even snuck in and attacked something and blew up before you could get them. They're just hanging around. Are you telling me that drones, multiple drones just hanging around for days, and Denmark doesn't have the ability to shoot one down and NATO doesn't have the ability to shoot one down? What's going on here?

So I'm going to say there's something about the story that's either seriously missing or maybe, I'm even trying to imagine what Russia would get out of this if it were them. One thing they might get out of it is proving that there's no air defense. They have no air defense. I don't understand why the US didn't shoot down our drones. The story was that they were actually our own drones. So now I guess I understand why you don't shoot down your own drones, but Denmark doesn't seem to think it's theirs. They can shoot those down. They're not manned. Why in the world wouldn't you shoot it down? I don't know. There's something missing in that story.

According to Nstrike1231, Trump is launching nuclear exercises in Europe. So they're doing some long-range bomber flights and stuff. And the thinking is this is to just rattle Putin's cage because we don't have really much going on there that's going to threaten him. So at least acting like we have a dangerous nuclear potential, which we do.

Rubio talking about Ukraine says that the Russian military losses are what he calls staggering. The casualties in a single month exceed total US deaths in Afghanistan or Iraq. Now I don't know if that's a good comparison because we had unusually low casualties in both Afghanistan and Iraq for the context of a war. The other side had massive casualties, but it wasn't a normal war because it was so one-sided. But do you think that Russia has enough military losses that it will change anything? I don't know.

We do know that Trump said unambiguously with no hesitation that any Russian military planes that fly over NATO territory, they could just shoot them down because you can't have the Russians just testing all the defenses and going home with no response. So I don't know if that's going to happen, but there might be a Russian plane that gets shot down, and we'll see if that makes any difference to anything.

Trump is saying that Ukraine, if they had the right weapons that US and others could provide, that they would actually be able to win back the territory they've lost. Now I don't know anybody who believes that, that they could win back the territory. I don't know anybody who thinks that's going to happen. But he goes further and saying maybe they could get a little extra too, take some of Russia. So I don't see how that could possibly happen with the current variables in play.

But Trump and the administration are still pushing the other countries to stop buying Russian oil and gas. And if he succeeded, if Trump succeeded in getting these other countries to stop buying, mostly China and India and some European, that would collapse the Russian economy and might bring them to the table. But as others have pointed out, Russia still has the ability to turn off Europe's energy in the winter. So are we seriously three and a half years into a war? Are we seriously letting Europe's stupidity with energy affect us? I mean it's one thing when the situation first comes up, but it's been three and a half years. If Europe is still depending on Russia for their energy and therefore cannot mount a vigorous enough defense, I'm not sure how much we should protect them. I mean you need to do something for yourself, as in work harder to get another source of energy.

Zelensky has warned Putin that he and Putin's officials need to find the nearest bomb shelter, the nearest one to the Kremlin, because he says the Kremlin's going to come under direct attack. Now I think they've sent a drone or two over there before, but sounds like Zelensky plans a more major attack on the Kremlin. Now I don't know how Russia could fail to escalate if that happened. I mean the escalation is getting higher, but do you think it's possible that Zelensky could dismantle the entire Kremlin like one drone at a time? If you just send dozens of them every day and maybe one gets through every now and then, couldn't you make the Kremlin unusable in, let's say, a month? Could you? And if you did something like that, what would Russia do to respond? Maybe they're doing everything they can do short of going nuclear. I don't know. So I have lots of questions about what Russia would do if we increase the pressure in any other way.

Apparently there's some Mexican drug cartel members, according to the publication The European Conservative, that joined the Ukrainian military so they could learn drone warfare. So believe it or not, there are Spanish-speaking troops fighting for Ukraine, but apparently they're doing it more for their own training, and they are Colombian and Mexican, and that they're cartel members and they're terrorists, and they're going to take this learning back. Great. Terrific.

Well, you know, Greta Thunberg's got her freedom flotilla, she calls it, trying to go over there and fix everything in Gaza. And apparently it's being attacked by jammers. They're jamming their radios and playing ABBA on their radios on repeat. And so if they keep their radios on, all they're going to get is ABBA on repeat. And apparently there are some other kinds of attacks, non-lethal attacks are happening, but mostly to make it really unpleasant to be on that flotilla.

The group said that Israeli military drones targeted five of their vessels. There's quite a few vessels actually involved. And damaged masts and communication equipment. And it's the third assault on the aid-bearing ships, they say. So they got 51 boats in that operation. That's pretty big. They sailed from Barcelona at the end of August. They're going to try to break that siege on Gaza. Do you think they'll break the siege on Gaza or will they just hear a lot