do you still think we're over-prepared? Well 8.5 might be over-preparing and I prefer it. So that's my take on that. I think Schumer wins this round politically even if the 8.5 is unnecessary.

Here's a positive thought. Maybe some of you won't think this is a positive thought but I'm going to frame it that way. However many years it was since the Emancipation Proclamation — somebody tell me how many years have passed in the comments — so many years have gone by and then of course Black people have had to fight and fight and fight for civil rights and still fighting, and things are still not exactly as fair and equal as people would like, but a lot closer. But let me give you this thought that's just sort of mind-blowing.

So X years ago was slavery in this country. In 2020, Black voters will pick our president again. Because I think you'd agree that the whatever ninety percent plus percentage of African American citizens who voted for Obama twice were undoubtedly the reason that he was elected twice. I mean all the other variables had to be in place and white people had to vote for him too, but the most determined and variable, the one that I think is by far the most important, was the Black vote. Now fast forward to 2024. Our next president, in my opinion, it's Black citizens. So 156 years ago Black people in this country were literally slaves, and in 156 years it's 2020. They will decide again for the third time — well I guess you could say it would be the fourth time in a row — the Black vote is going to decide who's the president, right? I'm not wrong about that. Because it wouldn't take much for them to overwhelmingly reelect President Trump. It wouldn't take much. Just a little bit of movement toward more Republican voting and it wouldn't take much to keep him from being elected. Simply vote at the same ratio they voted for Obama and that's it. That's the end of it.

Now you can also do the same thing with the female vote. How many years ago was it that women didn't have the vote? All right, but women are now the majority of the country in a system in which the majority vote means something. So women have the power, should they decide to vote as a coherent bloc. There are more of them. Women actually have the power if they decide to use it, you know, in a combined way. And I also believe that women are far more educated at the moment. Is that not true? That there are more women getting into college or women becoming lawyers and doctors, etc., high-paying careers. So I think there are more educated women, and education is highly correlated with percentage of voting, right? The more highly educated, the more likely you're going to show up at the polls. So I'd say that women and Black Americans have effectively the majority control of the electo