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It's about giving people the resources and the support they need to so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.
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Under Joe Biden, DEI equity was going to be inserted into every area of federal law. And it was. And then President Trump came in and he abolished it. Not only did he abolish it, he ended up targeting universities for their violation of civil rights law. He ended up going after companies that contracted with the American government to point out that they were not allowed to adjudicate issues based on race. The President of the United States removed DEI from every area of the federal government, which is a good thing, because DEI is basically the statement that your race ought to matter more than your individual merit. It is a rejection of the ethos of Martin Luther King Jr. In favor of an ethos of polarization and segmentation of the American population. It is a very good thing that DEI has been wiped out of American federal life. Now, if President Trump were to not be President. If Kamala Harris had been president, not only would it be there, it would be strengthened. And not only would it be strengthened, it would be bleeding through every area of our society. And it can happen again. By the way, if Democrats take over Congress and the presidency, undoubtedly they will just go right back to doing this. So all the people right now who say you should go vote Democrat in 2026 or don't vote for President Trump's party or there's no difference between the parties understand what it is they are fomenting. They are fomenting precisely the kind of DEI crap that was promoted by Kamala Harris. Okay, how about the culture wars? Remember that time when it was de rigueur in America for you to claim that men could be women and women men? Remember that time when you could be ousted from a job over saying that? When this was a wildly controversial statement that boys are boys and girls are girls? Remember that time when the federal government was trying to leverage states into providing funding for transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for youth? Remember that? Not long ago. It's like two years ago. And Kamala Harris was promoting it full scale. Democrats still promote it. James Talarico of Texas is still promoting this. While running for Senate, Gavin Newsom of California, while not really wanting to promote it, is still promoting it. And remember, under Joe Biden, all of our supposed expertise institutions endorsed this nonsense. The American Medical association endorsed this nonsense. The American Psychiatric association endorsed this nonsense. Hell, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed this insanity. Do you remember trans visibility day? The same day as Easter at the White House. Topless men with fake prosthetic boobs at the White House. You remember that? Well, President Trump reversed all of that. President Trump reversed the trans issue. He said that Democrats were for they them and he was for you. And he was right about that. And he issued executive orders to that effect. And the newfound freedom to say what is perfectly true. And state action happening across the country to bar the mutilation of children. And medical institutions suddenly coming out and admitting the obvious, which is that they never had any evidence for this kind of torture that they were foisting upon young people. All of that would not have happened without Trump. So you regret that? Is that the thing you regret? Or maybe when you say that you regret things, what you really regret is President Trump's economic policy. Now listen, I have quibbles with President Trump over his tariffs. I don't like his tariffs. I've opposed his tariffs from day one. But to pretend that Joe Biden's economy, which was about regulation and taxation and DEI and climate change and massive inflation and stagnating growth. That that was the way forward is insane. And that Kamala Harris was going to do anything different. That's insane too. 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Or are you in favor of America retaining its technological edge, its military and economic edge, thanks to our investments in AI and mostly our light hand regulations with regard to AI? There's a reason AI is being developed in the United States and not in Europe, and there's a reason the United States is winning the AI war. And you can quibble with President Trump's decisions on everything from tariffs to crypto schemes, but the Reality is that if Democrats were in control of the economy, all they care about is redistribution of poverty, not creation of prosperity. For all the people who are very much regretting their vote for President Trump, what is it that they regret? President Trump protecting religious freedom across the country. Because I promise you that if Democrats were in control of the government right now, they would be pushing for a reversal of the constituency of the Supreme Court. They would be cracking down on religious freedom and working to do so. And the President of the United States not doing any of that because of President Trump's appointments. In term one, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of religious freedom and in favor of states being in charge of their own abortion policy. So what is it that you regret? Federal courts are being staffed by people who actually care about the Constitution as opposed to people who do not. Is that the thing that you regret, if you regret having voted for President Trump? Well, maybe the thing that you regret is you don't like his foreign policy. Maybe what you regret is that you always thought that Trump was an isolationist, despite all of the evidence to the contrary in his first term. Maybe what you really thought is that he was some sort of restrainer who's interested in rebalancing global power away from the United States and toward Russia and China. President Trump has always been an advocate of peace through strength. He does not want any long open ended boots on the ground wars, but he understands the extraordinary power of the American military. So what is it that you're regretting? The arrest of Nicolas Maduro and the control of the Venezuelan regime by choking out their oil supply. Or maybe what it is you regret is that Joe Biden was withdrawing support for Israel in the middle of an existential war with Hezbollah and Hamas, and President Trump came in and stopped the conflict in Gaza and got hostages freed by funding Israel so that it could actually continue to fight for its life. Or maybe what you regret is that President Trump bombed an Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo, setting back their nuclear program. Or. Or maybe what you regret is that President Trump is the first president in any of our lifetimes to take truly seriously the threat of Iran to the extent necessary to actually set them back decades in their pursuit of nuclear weapons, the rebuilding of ballistic missiles, and control of a terror apparatus spreading throughout the Middle East. Maybe what you preferred was Kamala Harris kowtowing to the mullahs, ensuring them a path to a bomb, alienating allies ranging from Israel to Saudi Arabia to uae. Maybe that's what you were looking for. Or maybe what you were looking for is a Joe Biden inherent weakness policy that created Russian aggression in Ukraine in the first place and created October 7th and the incentive structure for Iran to attack. Maybe that's what you're looking for. Maybe what you're looking for is an America that is not strong in the world, that is actually weak in the world. Well, if so, I'm sorry that you came to the wrong place. I'm sorry that you were deceived because you wished to be deceived, because President Trump never said he was in favor of a stronger Russia or a stronger China or of ceding power to either on the global stage. And in terms of cracking down on domestic enemies of the United States, the DOJ has actually been cracking down on various groups that have been attempting to undermine American national security from abroad, like the Singham network, like the George Soros funding network. All of these things are on their back foot because of the Trump administration. So why don't I regret voting for President Trump? For all of the reasons that I just said. For all of those reasons, I'm very, very happy that I voted for President Trump. And when history is written, all of those things are going to be in the books. Immigration, dei, culture wars, foreign policy, economics. All of those are going to be in the history books. Just going to ask once more, cackling Kamala Harris, is the thing that you regret not voting for that truly? Well, I guess you'll have your chance to vote for Democrats in 2026. And good luck to.