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acist, but if you make enough, quote, racially curious comments, then it starts sounding like a dog whistle, doesn't it? But because it's Biden, the people who are on the left must be thinking to themselves, okay, there are a lot of racially curious statements he's made throughout time. Do they form this pattern? Because if this were a Republican, it would be a pattern, right? But because it's Bi…
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Kanye has published his platform, and you could go take a look at it. It seems that his platform is highly Bible compatible, so much so that with each thing in his platform he shows you the applicable Bible verse that supports it. Some of the things he wants is prayer in school, and one of his big planks is fixing the school system so it works for everybody. Now I'm not really into the prayer in school debate. You know, I'm not a believer and I don't object to it. So you know, work it out among yourselves. I feel like I could be on the sideline on that one because I don't need the prayer for myself, but I understand its benefits. So just work it out among yourselves. Whatever you do is fine with me.
But here's the part I like. Kanye's platform is actually the best platform I've ever seen for the Black community. And I don't know if he'll ever get credit for that. But which is the other platform that's focusing on schools as a key lever? Kanye covers the other stuff. He even says that he would treat America first. So Kanye actually says explicitly that he's going to negotiate etc. and treat America first as the best model to move forward. I think you should read it. So just Google it, or I think Mike Cernovich tweeted it if you want to find it on his Twitter feed. I think I retweeted him. And it's worth reading. It's worth reading. If you have a few minutes, read Kanye West's thing.
Now I don't know if you saw Tucker Carlson's — he did what would you call it, a monologue on Kanye West. If you didn't see it, it's some of Tucker's best work. Like really, really good work. I'm just talking about the writing, you know, the writing of that piece in which he went through the Kanye situation. He talks about how until Kanye said he liked the president, he wasn't crazy. In other words, the media treated him as just creative and provocative until he seemed like he was on the other side, and then the headlines are that he's crazy. Now Kanye himself cops to some mental challenges, so I don't think it's inaccurate to agree with the person who has a self-assessment. But it was very interesting to see that before it didn't matter, and now they're throwing him under the bus.
So I would say Kanye has the best emphasis on schools, so he understands priorities best. If you wanted somebody to champion you, you should pick somebody who has their priorities right. And if Kanye had said Black Lives Matter is my primary thing, you should dismiss him as somebody who doesn't know what's important. But instead he talks about education, hits the nail on the head of what's important. And bringing some kind of a spiritual revival to the United States you could argue would be a good thing. I know that those of you who are atheists bristle at this, but so long as it's not anti-atheist — and it's not, it's not even slightly anti-atheist — I think you might be able to coexist with that.
The funniest thing in the news is that a T-shirt outfit called Teespring, T E E Spring, banned anti-fascist shirts while they look into it. Now they're acting as if they're going to look into it, so you know, maybe it's not permanent. But Antifa got all anti-fascist, all crazy about it because they said, hey, but you have T-shirts from this or that right-leaning group or extremist group or what else. Hey, why not our shirts? And here would be my answer to that. I think Antifa is the only one they mentioned that's literally a domestic terrorist group. I think if you're Teespring you can get rid of a domestic terrorist group from your shirts. Doesn't feel like a reach to me.
So I would like to suggest that if they stick with this and they don't bend to the pressure that's no doubt coming their way, that you might consider doing a little shopping at Teespring. Send a little money their way. I suggested that if they make a shirt called "We Cancelled Antifa," then it might sell a few copies. Might sell a few. Now I would not wear a cancelled Antifa shirt in public because it'd be like wearing a MAGA hat. You get your ass beat. But I might buy one. I might buy it and put it in the closet just to support Teespring if they stick with this. If they don't stick with it, well, who cares?
As I tweeted this morning, I have developed this habit that I'm not sure I'm proud of. Every morning the first thing I do is I get my coffee, I sit down at my computer, and literally the first thing I do after that is I look at the news, usually Twitter. And it's filled with the video from the night before, the highlight clips from the big game in Portland. Now I call it the big game because I don't think it looks like politics anymore. I don't think it looks like a social movement even in the least. Whatever Antifa is is closer to some kind of a role-playing costumed sport. And it went to a new level last night, maybe recently, where apparently Antifa has developed their own shield, like a plywood shield, like old-timey costume role players would have if they were playing knights of old. And then they've got the Antifa on there, and they've got their little crew of shield people with their plywood pushing against police.
And I turn it on, and this is not even slightly — not even slightly — an exaggeration. When I watch the clips, usually in any clip for example, when I look at the clips I look at
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them like I'm watching sports highlight clips. And I'm watching the police beat up Antifa, and it looks exactly like watching a football game with tackles. And you see the highlight reel of look at this spectacular tackle. And I'm watching the same sport, except it's police also wearing protective gear just like football, also trying to control territory and space just like football. You've got fo…
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