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Enter promo code Shapiro, save 50% off your very first month. Well, Davos, the elites are meeting over at Davos. When I say elites, I really mean elitists because, listen, I am by pretty much all available metrics elite, meaning I went to an Ivy League law school

and I have a really good income and I own a company and all of that. But I don't mean that people

who are rich are elites. What I mean are people are elitists. They believe that they ought to run

the world, they ought to have power to control your life and they ought to have that power

because they're so good at what they

do because they're so special because they're so brilliant they should be able to take control

of your life they are basically just the apotheosis of genius all public opinion will be

telescoped into them personally they are the apex creatures when it comes to the political system globally.

And these are the people who ought to run things. You know, when I went to Harvard Law School,

first day, orientation. Elena Kagan was the dean. She now, of course, is on the Supreme Court.

And I vividly remember her standing in a giant hall in the middle of the Harvard campus

and the place looked like it was something

out of Harry Potter, it was all mahogany and beautiful seats and velvet and all the rest. And she gets up on stage and she says, you guys will be the rulers of the universe. They'll be ruling the world. The people in this room will be on the Supreme Court. They'll be in Congress. They'll be the people in the halls of power. And I thought to myself, why? because we did really well on the L-Sat.

Why exactly would that qualify us to be in control of They'll be the people in the halls of power. And I thought to myself, why? Because we did really well on the LSAT.

Why exactly would that qualify us to be in control of what?

Because here's the thing.

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