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say look here's the encryption key. Do you know who had access to this? Everybody who knew where to look. Wouldn't that be the end of the case? Like how could you sit in the jury and let, and let's say that that evidence held up against cross-examination and everything. If that held up that it really was there and if you knew where to look you could find it. Now here's the part I don't know. How m…

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pparently what they tested was if you fast for a day and then eat twice as much the next day you won't lose weight. Did they really need to study that? Did anybody, was that a surprise to somebody? I don't know. Looks like bad science to me.

Well End Wokeness is reporting that the LA mayor Karen Bass, her house was burglarized. Now I know what you're going to say that's an old story Scott we already know that Karen Bass the mayor of Los Angeles who was sort of a soft on crime person we already know that her house was burglarized and so why are you bringing it up again? Because it was burglarized a second time. Yep the soft on crime mayor just got burglarized a second time.

So here's my unpopular take on that. If DEI never existed I would look at her and say looks like she had some bad policies or maybe she'll correct it. In the context of DEI when I see a black mayor who's clearly not getting the job done I say to myself huh looks like a DEI problem. Like the base problem is DEI. And the reason I say that is I think a better leader could fix it. You know being tougher on crime for example. So is it my fault that I live in a world where I'm continuously reminded of DEI and then I see somebody who is black and is in charge and is failing? What am I supposed to think? If the society primes me to say DEI, DEI is why we're looking for people and hiring people and voting for people of course I'm going to think that the problem is DEI.

Now that's different from saying there's a problem with the person. So you have to separate that. One is a system and the other is an individual. So I'm not making a claim about the individual. And indeed if it turns out she's really good at her job, it's hard to tell from the outside but if it turns out she's really good at her job and maybe even made one slip that maybe she'll fix, pretty big one, but if she fixed it I would give her credit. So I don't know that there's something wrong with the

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individual. But I do know that in the context of DEI they've created a situation where it's my first assumption, my working assumption. Now do you think that's good for black people that when I see a black leader who's not getting it done that I think it's because of DEI not because necessarily there's something wrong with the person? That's a whole different conversation. The person might actual…

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