there, even if they're on the trip, you're like, oh, I got the day to do what I want. So I thought, I wonder if you could create an AI girlfriend who is, who you take to be your girlfriend but she's always on a business trip. She's just always on a trip. Oh you're definitely married. But every day she'll call in a couple times on Zoom, say, "Hey, you know, just got out of my meetings. I want to check in with you. What are you doing today?" And I wonder if the feeling that you're pretending of course, but the feeling that you do have a spouse, they're just on a business trip checking in with you, I wonder if it would make you feel better. I don't know. This is a funny thought. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

All right. Ukraine's big counter-offensive, it's racking up the gains let's say according to CNN. They've gotten, oh listen to this, they've lost tremendous casualties and lots of military equipment but they do have something to show for it. Ukraine has taken back nine square kilometers. Nine square kilometers. They're having a whole war to reclaim territory and the amount that they've reclaimed, I could walk from one end to the other of the entire territory they've reclaimed after how many losses? What, 50,000 dead people? And they got back like a nice baseball field sized area. I mean it's bigger than that but that's not good.

You probably saw this story. I didn't know what to say about it but it's just ridiculous. So this will be another one of those. I'm going to just describe something with just ordinary language and watch how absurd it is. I won't add anything. This is just what actually happened. You know Jamel Hill? She's a woman who's very active in saying things usually about Black Americans and she thinks everybody's racist. That's sort of the summary. So she accused Asians of quote "carrying the water for white supremacy" for backing the affirmative action decision. Asian Americans carrying the water for white supremacy.

The reason I didn't talk about it even though it's been in the news for a few days is that there's nothing to add to it, right? I like to add the absurdities of the story but it's already there. Like what the hell am I going to do with that story? There's nothing you can do with that. It's complete. All right. So I'll just tell you about it and let it go right there.

There was a Trump rally in a town of Pickens, it says South Carolina. There are only 3,400 residents but they got 50,000 people to show up for the rally. 3,400 people in the town, 50,000 went to the rally. Now some are saying that the energy is starting to favor Trump. It's starting to look like that, isn't it? It's starting to look very much like that. Now too early to make a prediction. And if you're joining me now I'm a single issue voter so I'm backing Ramaswamy because he's tough on fentanyl. So is Trump. Both of them are tough on fentanyl in terms of the Mexican cartels. But if it's a tie I go with the younger man.

All right. There's some reporting that the Trump veteran staff members are saying that when Trump was allegedly holding up an Iran attack secret document that we heard about on the audio recording that he really was not holding up that document because it doesn't really exist and he was just bullshitting with the reporters. I don't believe any of that. That doesn't sound true. I don't know what was true and maybe we never will. Goodbye Don for over capitalizing. Don, it was nice having you here but you're gone now.

All right. So who knows about that story? Who knows? There's still talk of a third party spoiler for the election. Do you think there'll be a serious third party candidate? I think Cornel West is a third party but not a big one. And then the experts are saying if there's a third party candidate that would try to be a centrist. Apparently they're a centrist group. What are they called? They have a name. No Labels. A centrist group. I couldn't think of their name. I couldn't figure out their name because they didn't have good branding. And the name of their group is No Labels. It's like maybe you should get a label. You know what would work really good in this case when people can't remember the name of your organization? A label. Get yourself a label. That would work really well.

All right. So here's the funniest part of that story. The experts, who probably are right, they say that if this No Labels centrist thing going it would take more from the left than the right and it would guarantee that Trump won. I don't know if that's true. I suppose it would depend who that centrist candidate was. But I love the fact that everybody assumes the Democrats are too dumb to know that. That's just assumed. That the Democrats, presumably the last thing they'd want would be a President Trump. So if they went ahead and voted for this non-Biden third party they would effectively just be electing Trump. Now people are acting like that's just going to happen and it might. I'm not saying it won't. But isn't it funny that the only way it can happen is if Democrats are so dumb they don't know that they're voting against their own interests in the most obvious way you could ever vote against your own interest? It'll be all over the news. I mean long before you actually cast your vote the news would tell you, "People, listen to us on CNN. If you vote for that third party you are electing Trump, your worst nightmare. Don't do this. Don't push that ballot. See this finger? No, don't do this finger thing with that ballot. That will make your worst nightmare happen." And everybody assumes they're going to do it anyway. I don't have much to say about that but it's just funny that no matter how self-destructive a thing is you can count on 25 percent of the public doing it, right? Yeah, it's a terrible idea. Well let's sign up 25 percent of the public. They'll do it.

How would you like to go to the Titanic in an under-tested submarine? 25 percent of the public: sign me up.

All right. DEI is declining. You can see the signs everywhere. DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion. So it's forced on a lot of companies through social and other forces. But I guess DeSantis is banning DEI in Florida and that means only in universities because he doesn't have control of the corporations, right? Am I right about that? He's only banning it in universities and schools, just universities, right? Correct. You can't control the private companies. Then I saw at Wall Street Journal was saying that the staffs of DEI departments are being cut because if you hire less, I guess the hiring is decreasing. If you hire fewer people you don't need as much DEI because they're trying to get their diversity or something. But that sounds like an excuse to cut the DEI staff that isn't giving you any profits.

And then we're seeing, who said this? This is also the Wall Street Journal. Laura Aguilar, Nasdaq's global head of diversity and equity and culture. She said that they're seeing a dip in the interest in DEI. So she's saying that the energy around DEI is conspicuously down. Is that good or bad for Trump? Well it suggests that the zeitgeist is moving in his direction. If it were moving toward DEI that would be a bad sign for Trump. If it's moving away from DEI and away from affirmative action that feels like the public is shifting a little in a Trumpian way even if they don't know it. So I would say that all of the forces in the world seem to be lining up to make Trump your next president.

Now I promised you a whiteboard. Whiteboard begins now. So I'm going to show you my take on the affirmative action ruling and let's say the context of all of that. So here's how I see the world and I would like as my gift to Black America to solve all your problems right here.

All right. So the American success plan is usually the same. If you want to succeed you first have to get rid of your obstacles, right? If you have an obstacle to success, logically, would you, how many of you would agree, if you have an obstacle to success and you want to succeed, do you not need to remove your obstacle first? Yes or no? Oh, somebody says no. Interesting. Interesting. It's because you're way ahead of me, isn't it? Some of you say yes. We'll get to that.

All right. So let's say you've got obstacles. You've got to get rid of them. And let's say one of your obstacles is systemic racism. And systemic racism could be connected to a bunch of other problems. You've got from poverty to maybe poor nutrition, you're in a crime neighborhood, too many drugs, etc. The etc on this is doing a lot of work. But you also, if you can handle your obstacles, you can find a way around them. Then you'd also have a strategy. And your strategy might be study continuously, build a talent stack, you know, learn things all the time. It's always good for success. You'd want to stay off drugs and obey the law. And here again the etc is doing a lot of work, right? You'd want to network. You'd want to, you know, there's a whole bunch of things. You dress right. So there's a whole bunch of things that we could all name that would be your strategies for success.

Now in my opinion, and here's where I'm going to get in trouble, it's great to have free speech. If you ever get a chance to have free speech like I have that most of you don't, it's really awesome. It's a great feeling to be able to say whatever you think is true and helpful. All right. Now I try to use my free speech just to be helpful and this would be an example, right?

If you're an Asian American, do you have any systemic racism? I'd say yes, historically. Most people would agree yes. And do any Asian Americans come over here with any problems of poverty and bad nutrition? Probably. There are plenty of poor people of all types, etc. But in my opinion what I see is that the Asian American community works on their strategies for success. And you know what that does? What happens if you work on your strategies and you ignore your obstacles? It removes all your obstacles. It removes your obstacles. Because if you've got a really good skill set nothing's going to stop you. Nothing. If you're not doing drugs, you stay out of jail, and you develop useful skills that the world wants, nothing's going to stop you. No, your soon will fix your own nutrition. Your poverty will be fixed. Your systemic racism might still be there but you wouldn't even notice it. You slice through it like it didn't exist.

So I believe that the Black American strategy for success is accidentally backwards. Accidentally is accidentally backwards. And I believe that we're being, we all of us are being sold an idea that if you don't remove the obstacles to success, systemic racism being at the top, if you don't remove these Black Americans are going to be depressed and suppressed because they won't have the same level of success. Asian Americans do it the other way around. They get themselves right. They fix themselves and then all this becomes irrelevant.

So this is the biggest thing that Black Americans probably need to imitate. Success is mostly imitation. Imitation. There's no crime to be imitators, right? I learned to be a cartoonist by imitating other cartoonists, right? So imitation is the way to succeed. You look at other people. What did they do? And then you try to do that thing. And what works for every person, Black, Asian American, anything else, Hispanic American, you name it, what works for everybody is this part. You do this part first. You don't ignore the obstacles. You know if there are people who want to be working on those directly that's great. But if everybody did this you wouldn't even talk about that. It would just disappear in time, right?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my contribution to Black America. I believe that if every Black American took the free assets that are available, and I'm a perfect example. I could give you advice on how to do this, right? I really could. A lot of people could. I write books on it so you can buy my books and you know "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" tells you exactly and in a pretty easy way how to do the strategies right to succeed. Black America, because I have freedom of speech, I got it the hard way. But let me tell you, if you do this, work on this strategy first, the other stuff is going to disappear in importance in a fairly quick period of time. But if you work on the, you know, focusing on the obstacles and you tell yourself, well there's no point in working on myself because I've got all these obstacles, you will be guaranteed to fail. And honestly it's going to be hard to care. It's going to be hard for other people to care about you, right?

Do you know why Asian Americans never had Asian American Lives Matter? Because nobody questioned it. It wasn't a question. Nobody even thought about it. Of course they do. The reason that Black Americans wanted to make sure that Black Lives Matter is it felt like they didn't. It just felt like they didn't. But if you want to make Black lives matter, stop working on this side. That's not how you get there. This is a