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omas Sowell, so famous black economist who is widely beloved on the right probably more than the left because he's more of a conservative take care of yourself kind of a guy. So one of his quotes somebody stuck in there is that when people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment seems like discrimination. Boy was that on target. That's exactly on target. That getting rid of DEI is not c…

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the distinguished teaching award at his university and he believes there's actually no way that he would ever be hired. So that's your world. So if you were to allow this distinguished teaching award guy to be hired at that university, you would say, "Oh, that's an even playing field." But if you insist that it has to be a DEI loving candidate, it's kind of like a special treatment that if I had special treatment, I wouldn't want to take it away. But Thomas Sowell rings in my mind.

All right. President Biden came out and called these the dark days. I've heard some others say that recently. The Democrats that they keep saying that the dark days are here and the bad stuff's happening. And I keep saying where's the dark stuff? Where's the bad stuff? And then they would add things like, well, Democrats are preventing 43 million people from eating today. And I think, okay, that is dark. But that wasn't Republicans. Republicans are open to feed them today. Just vote on it. We'll feed them today. And then you go down the list of what is the other dark stuff? Was it the solving of all those wars and the fact that Gaza is under control and the fact that Ukraine and Russia, you know, we're working as hard as we possibly can to deescalate that before super winter kicks in? Where's the dark part? Is it the fact that the tariffs worked, that inflation's under control, that eggs and gas prices are down, but beef's a little high, but we're working on it. Where is all the darkness? Is it b

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ecause we stopped doing transitioning youth? Is that the darkness? Feels like an upgrade. But as I've told you before, back in 2016 when the Democrats started calling everything that Trump did dark, you say that because you don't have specific credible complaints. You do it because it can collect all of your fears. The Democrats are not about policy. They're about fear and about personal attack. I…

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