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he good stuff. Well, well, well. Has anything been happening lately? Yes, lots of things have been happening lately. But I wanted to talk to you about the party of hate. You may know that recently I gave a nickname to the Democratic Party. I called them the party of hate because it seemed that they didn't have ideas, but they had a lot of hate. And we've never seen this more clearly than with Kan…

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ntry, not my neighborhood, but all over the country. Not once in two and a half years did I hear a Trump supporter say something that sounded dog-whistley, pro-racist. I've never even heard them sort of frame it that way. But the people on the left are pretty sure that in a private conversation Republicans are actually racists. That if nobody's looking and they're talking to each other it's like, "Yeah, you know, we're totally racist here." And I believe they think that that's actually what's happening. You know, in a private conversation it's that, "Yeah, we're all racist, blah blah."

Now there are racists, and it appears that most of them are voting Republican again because immigration favors them for racist reasons. Other Republicans like it for crime and economic reasons. So I'm seeing people say—there's a comment going by that says which part. So you could actually, you don't have to just say I'm crazy, or you could say, you know, you have a lot of characters here, so you could say, "I don't believe, for example, that regular Republicans are not racist." You could just say that. Tell me what it is, idea-wise, that you disagree with. Because when you say what you're really saying is that there's something wrong with me. Do you see the point?

My starting point is that the left are making personal judgments about people, and the right are talking about ideas. So watch out. People, treat me to see examples of that right now. Keep in mind I'm completely open to the left side. I'm actually inviting them. So give me your ideas right now.

You met with Duke. So somebody is concerned that I have interacted with people who they believe are bad people. Let me confirm that I have definitely interacted with people that you think are bad people. So you don't have to wonder if that's true. I can confirm that over the course of my life I have made it a point to be open to good people, bad people, ideas I like, ideas I don't like. And it's both on the left and right. So I will go as far left or as far right to get an opinion and to hear what they have to say.

And when I'm making business decisions, or usually business decisions, I don't look at somebody I may have a common business interest with and say, "Tell me all of your views," because if I find one I don't like I can't do business with you. I get that people do that, and if it was outrageous I probably would, but I don't make that kind of judgment because I don't think it helps anybody.

Now keep in mind that I'm a special case. So I'm going to make an argument for me being a special case. That's always dangerous, right? Everybody thinks they're a special case. Here's what makes me special. I'm very persuasive. If I attended—let me say this so it can't be taken out of context and turned into a meme. So I'm going to make a tortured sentence to make it h

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ard for somebody to take it out of context, right? So bear with me. If somebody like me—let's say not me but a person who was persuasive and non-racist, you know, not me, I'm talking about another person—if that person attended a KKK meeting, would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Well, if a non-racist who was very persuasive spent time with a bunch of KKK people, what is the most likely outc…

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