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media that I had an idea that could change the world. And I was willing to sell that idea. I did it as an experiment to see if anybody would fund a company based on an idea. And I actually got a company to say yes. And they sent me a contract and said, yeah, that idea is so good that we will actually give you a percentage of the company just for the idea. And some internal changes happened at the…

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tly Netflix is rethinking, speaking of Netflix, two Netflix-related stories. And you know one day the real Netflix is thinking about rethinking their investment in Georgia under the condition that these so-called heartbeat bills about abortion get passed. Now they didn't say they pull out. They said they did rethink their investment. But what I predicted was that these states that make abortion impossible through whatever legislation or other means, those states will be so economically damaged that it will limit how many states are willing to do this. So I do think some states will become no-abortion states. That seems likely. But they will suffer economically because companies will decide not to go there.

And probably this is my other prediction from long ago. It seems to me that apps will form, sort of like the GoFundMe apps, in which somebody can finance travel to another state to get an abortion. So if several southern states make abortion impossible or the clinics move away because it's too hard to operate there, there will be an app, I guarantee it. I don't know who's going to make it but I guarantee this will happen. There will be an app that says I need an abortion and I'm in the wrong state. What do I do? And you're going to find all the resources for somebody to give you a ride. You'll find somebody to stay with, somebody to make sure that you're okay when you're in this other state, and a ride back home. They might even help you fund it. It's possible.

All right, so some apps will, somebody mentioned my startup's app WhenHub. And I wasn't thinking about that when I mentioned this but WhenHub allows you to talk to any expert about anything. And one of those things you could do is connect to somebody who could solve this problem for you. I'm not recommending it. That's not what the app was made for. But it's a general purpose app in which any expert can talk to any person for a fee or for free. They don't have to have a fee.

All right, let me talk about the Washington Post. So somebody associated with the Washington Post, one of their central players, recently tweeted that although President Trump is talking about Biden's 1994 crime bill, and President Trump cleverly said that Democrats can't vote for somebody who was supportive, I love the way he put it. He didn't say that's going to be a problem or that works against you. Whatever. He actually said in direct language that African Americans can't vote for somebody who was involved with that crime bill. Now of course they can. But let me frame it this way.

Many of you remember that maybe a year ago or so I was having conversations with Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome. And one of the things I was telling him is that as long as Democrats have all of the votes, as long as they have all of the votes of the black population, they don't have to deliver anything. And I also said that if Republicans could deliver anything, just anything for the black population, that you would have developed a competitive situation for the first time.

Now let me give incredible credit to Candace Owens. Candace Owens, and you know I think more than a lot of other people, there are lots of people who were involved with this, but she seems to be the most effective voice for letting people understand there's an option to vote Republican if they are so inclined. So she's done the best job of making that competitive situation. And because the president was successful with prison reform, he now has something specific to talk about. This is, look, Democrats couldn't give you this. I gave you this. Now there are a few other things he can talk about with unemployment and such but they seem a little less direct. Unemployment seems like, well that's something you did for white people. It just happened to be good for black people too. You know if you were inclined to think of things in racist ways it would be easy to imagine that that was an accomplishment. It was just something that happened. But the prison reform thing looks like a direct act. It looks like something that was done that has a disproportionate benefit for the African American community. And nobody had to do it. Yeah I think he would agree the president could have not done prison reform and his supporters probably wouldn't care one way or the other. Would you agree that's largely the case? It wasn't something he did for the base. It was something he did for the country because it made sense and because he could. That was it. It made sense and he could do it so he did it. Exactly what you would like to see any of your government do. It made sense so they did it.

But that has created now a competitive situation for the first time. It is obvious to the African American community, and I think really for the first time, it's obvious that they can completely control this election. That's a big statement but let me say it again because it's true. The black community, African Americans in the United States, citizens, they will determine, or at least they could determine, it's up to them, who the next president is. That's not too strong a statement is it? Because you know it's going to be close no matter what. You know that if enough of the black vote goes Republican to maintain this competitive situation where the Democrats really have to offer something, they haven't offered anything. Republicans have. Let's get some competition. Let's see the Democrats offer something that's so good that even the Republicans have to agree. Let's see the Republicans offer something that's so good that even the Democrats have to agree.

So congratulations Candace Owens, Larry Elder, all the folks who have worked with the president who have tried to create this exact situation. This situation is as perfectly crafted as you ever would want it to be. You want people to, yeah and Kanye, Kanye and yes so Kanye and Kim Kardashian. You have to give them, Kim Kardashian West, you have to give them all kinds of credit because they created a competitive situation.

Now I don't think that every black person should vote Republican by any means. What I think is that they should vote for whoever is going to help them the most in their opinion, wherever that takes them. But think about this situation. How many years ago was it when slavery was the law of the land or at least popular in the South? How many years ago was that? A few hundred years ago. And here we are in 2019. We're coming off eight years of an African American president. And 160 people are giving me different numbers so a while ago. Both correct me if I'm wrong. The black voters of this country are going to decide the next president. Is that wrong? Is it wrong to say that the black voters actually have control of the country right now if they want it? If they don't want it they don't have it. And you know certainly when black voters decided, hey this Barack Obama guy looks kind of good. We'd like to have a president who looks like us. Did they not decide who was the president? Could you not say conclusively that Barack Obama was elected because black

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citizens wanted him to be elected? And of course other people did too but I think that was the deciding part. And likewise with this upcoming election. If black voters decided that they just couldn't vote for Trump, you would have a lot of trouble getting reelected. If they decide that some of them want to vote for him, he'll probably get elected. So I would say it's kind of down to the black vot…

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