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Look, President Trump has handed you advantage. This war in Iran is a clusterfuck, okay? And that doesn't mean I want the regime to win. I think the regime sucks. And I couldn't believe it. Not since President Obama said, you know, we should have never gone into Iraq, but Afghanistan. Not since that crazy reversal has Trump going into Iran and saying he's not gonna remove the regime. Boggled my mind in terms of why would you mess up high ground this way? I don't know how we get out of it. Of course it's good if you can reduce the capabilities of Iran, but it's costing us so much here at home. And there is no clear upside that's going to make this all worthwhile. I mean, it's just so eerily reminiscent of what we've been through before. And even the I remember, I remember the mission creep the first time. Oh, no, it'll be over soon. Be over soon. Oh, we need a surge. Here we go again. Why this misplaced sense of might makes right and of distraction this time. So he handed you that. Okay. He says he's going to go after credit card rates. And he's right. Because so many Americans more than ever are using credit cards. The most expensive money you can get, except from a loan shark to pay real life household needs. This isn't. Oh, you're buying too many dolls. As he, you know, and he gave you that gift at Christmas. Stop buying so much for your kids. Buy less. Yeah, that's what you tell the American voters. You know, reduce your dreams, get another job. He handed you that. He handed you affordability. He beat you with it. And then he handed it to you. Health care. He's handing it to you. They won't even pass the subsidies that three out of four, four out of five of us almost know that these people need and should be passed. They haven't even done it and it's on them. He's handing you these things. He had that other big idea. I'm going to cap the credit card rates at 10%. I'm going to call in the health care bigs. I'm going to read them the riot act and tell them you're making too much money. We're going to change this. We're going to change it with you or without you. Those were two winning ideas. He did neither. Why? He doesn't want to take those guys on. He would literally rather start a war with the most toxic Islamist terrorist regime in the world than take on the banks or Take on the healthcare companies. He showed you that. He gave it to you. His base knows it. The people who moved over from you, you know, being blue collar Democrat union voters to maga. And often because they were right about what was wrong. They were right about what they wanted disrupted. They were right about what they wanted to see change. Not all of them are bullshit culture warriors, you know, the few are the fringy prejudiced, angry red hat brigade. It's not the many. The many are desperate for better. And that's the lane. The lane is to deliver for the many to get people to agree with what's wrong. And what's wrong is so obvious. So why would you live the problem by how you parade yourselves in front of people in these stupid ass costumes, basically screaming, I'm different than you. I'm different than you. We're not like you. We celebrate weird things instead of buckling down and knuckling up on the real fight for the many of affordability of the promise of this country. You do not need to dress up. You do not need to show yourself off. You need to show out. You need to show out that you are a real one, that you want to have this fight. You people should be showing up in communities that are under pressure, in places that aren't just in big cities. Big cities, yes, yes, all problems are concentrated when you get into the bigger population centers. Of course, of course they matter. But you should be elsewhere also showing you get the need that that's what you're responsive to, that's what you're about. Not just Trump sucks, but that we all know what's wrong. We agree, let's agree on that. You are right about what's wrong. I'm not going to shame you about that. I'm not going to force you to say Trump sucks, that you fucked up, that you picked the wrong guy. You should have been with us. You made a mistake. They didn't make a mistake. They were right about what was wrong. They were wrong in their choice of who would make it right. But they got duped. He duped them into a set of priorities that really aren't there. And now he's meeting with small businesses and celebrating his gains for them. What, he's handing it to you jump on that. Celebrating his economic wins for who? The investors? Those are the few, not the many. You should be about the many. Get people who voted for Trump to agree on what's wrong. Don't tell them they're wrong. Look, even if you feel that way, even if it's true. It's not pragmatic. It's not psychologically, you know, in terms of psychology, it's just stupid to do that. 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if you want me to join you. And I made bad choices in your opinion. If you sit there and say you made stupid choices, you know, that you really think that I'm feeling you right now? That I want. I want to listen to you? That I want to be what you're telling me to be? I mean, when you're talking to your kid, you're talking to your partner, you're talking to an employee, you're talking to whoever, you're talking to, your friend, you know, you really fucked up. You really screwed up. You really screwed it all up. That's not accountability. That's just blame and shame. You're not getting to a better place when you're in a bitch session at work, right? An adult in the room at some point says, hell, all right, I got it. I got it, I got it. We got it. We got what's wrong. Now. How do we fix it, right? It happens pretty fast in politics. We never get there. Why? Because the blame is enough. You have to transcend that if you want to win the midterms. It's not going to work. Trump sucks is not enough. Great bumper sticker, not enough. And it's right there for you. And the Met Gala is you shutting your eyes to what matters because you like how it feels to be an elite to me, to be among the few, to be among the privileged, to be special, to be fancy, to be celebrated, to be special. You're losing what connection actually matters, which is to the many. Why would you set yourself up for this? Why would you give this to Maga when you should be harping on what they've given you? Affordability is everything. Look, I would also argue decency. How we do politics, how we do dialogue, social media, but maybe that's just me. Maybe that's just my obsession, my focus. And that, pragmatically, in terms of what wins the elections. Changing the algorithm won't win the election because it's, you know, it's too out there. It's not specific to pocketbook politics that loom large, especially in an economic environment like this. Maybe so. And, okay, but it still leaves you in the same place that the Met Gala sends all the wrong messages. And you want to be against Bezos, then don't go to the ball. Okay? And if you want to be against what Bezos represents, then you shouldn't be at the ball, and you cannot rationalize it. And if you care about the people pissing in the bottles, don't go to a ball and hold up a piss bottle. Right? Help the people who have to hold up piss bottles do that. You can't have it Both ways. And you shouldn't want it both ways, but you do. And that's a problem. Now, when I say you do, not you, these people do. Because I don't know that any of you are gonna go to the Met Ball. But look, and again, it's not about anti fashion. It's not about wanting that to be celebrated or seeing that. That's not what I'm saying. It's that it's become much more than that. And I think it's a metaphor for the disconnect between what we need to be about in our politics in terms of getting things better and where we are. That's what I think. And I think you should see this moment for that. I'm not impressed that they give a hard time about Bezos being there. There's always been deep pockets that fund that thing. They've always fallen into the same category. Who else is going to sponsor it? Seriously, who's going to. Who's going to. You know who's going to sponsor it? The Boy Scouts of America. Who's going to sponsor a big gala? Rich people do it. And now some rich people are better than other rich. Come on. It just. It doesn't make any sense. It's never made any sense. What does make sense is realizing where your advantage lies, where the opportunity lies, where the mandate lies, and that's in reconnecting with the many. And that our government is supposed to help those who can't help themselves. And there are a lot of them being exploited. Yes, by the Bezos. So seize upon that. I don't think you demonize the rich. I think you tighten up the system so that they can't get around what you and I can't get around. And they pay their fair share. That's all. I don't know about all these extra ancillary taxes. I really don't. I think that how we spend the money is every bit as much of a problem and frankly, more on just about every measurable level than how much money we're taking in. The reason that the US debt just passed the GDP for the first time since the 40s is not because of how much we're taking in simply, but how you're spending it. Trump spends like a drunken sailor. He is not a real conservative, by the way. Real conservatives have never been real conservatives. They're only conservatives when they're out of power. When they're in power, they spend as much as anybody else. It's not me making this shit up. I'm not a Democrat. I Hate the two party system. I am anti partisan, but I accept that this is the system right now and that you need it to participate in a lot of ways and in a lot of places. But it shouldn't be your identity. It should not be your identity. It should not be. This should be your identity. You're a critical thinker, period. That's what your identity should be. It shouldn't be that by default. You just agree whatever they say you have to agree with. You just accept whatever it is. That's an identity. That's bullshit. Should be a critical thinker. You should be open to other ideas. You should be open to better progressive pragmatism. That's what it's about. That's where we should be. That's the label. But we're not. Not with stuff like this. Not with the Met Gala, not having to live that down, send that message. Talk about not being normal, talk about not relating to the average guy. I mean, why do this to yourselves? Because you want to go, you want to be fancy, you want to be seen. That's why. But then you're not a real one. Okay? And I think now is not the time to be having it both ways. Now is the time to knuckle up and buckle down. Mixed metaphors. Why? Because there's a real opportunity here and there's a real need. Okay. And you've got to see the opportunities that have been given to you. Now, the war. Look, I think the war is going to be something that underscores, that underlines just how he has not delivered on maga. I don't know that people are going to vote on the basis of the war. Why? Because it's subtle. War. No war. It's not that simple. Because the regime is bad. And beating them down matters. And how you do it matters, too. So the idea that this should have never happened. Oh, you don't want to see the regime degraded? Arguing, No, I don't want to see the regime degrade. Is. That's a tough argument. Politically. I'm not saying that there isn't merit to it, but I'm just saying politically, I don't like that. I wouldn't want to be on that side of it. That, yeah, we should just leave the regime alone. That's not a good side. So I don't think a lot of people are going to be voting on this, but I do think it will be symptomatic of what they think is wrong with this administration's leadership, with Trump's leadership. And I think that it's going to be about the economy and the economy, not Wall Street, Main Street. And let MAGA make that mistake. Let them point to Wall Street. Let them point to the stock markets. That's not your life, okay? Your life is about what you get paid and how much of it you get to keep and what things cost you and what your purchasing power is and what you're left with. It is not about your portfolio. Less than 50% of us are involved in that game. And to the extent that we are, most of us, it's through some defined contribution or in 401k or that kind of thing. You're passive at best. And I'm not criticizing that. I mean, I think it's a casino. I mean, I think it's a dicey proposition anyway, over time. I know it's worked, but I think you got to be careful about it. Put it this way, but what I'm saying is that Main street is not Wall street. And President Trump used to know that. He used to say it all the time when he'd be arguing against those big shots and how the regular people were getting boxed out. He was right then and he was right when he campaigned on it. He's just not doing it now. He's doing the opposite. And he's more corrupt than anybody we've ever seen. But even that part of the Trump sucks. You know, case, it's. Everybody knows it. It's weighed and measured. And the reason that it never seems to be enough to get people to quit on him is because they're not going to abandon what they know was wrong, even though he's now demonstrating to them what's wrong. They're not going to own the problem. They won't. They won't do it. Why? Because it's too unfair to them that they're the ones getting done dirty. And now they're the reason. Now, you may say, yeah, they're the reason, but that doesn't win. We're in a persuasion game here. This is about campaigns. This is about messaging. This is about building coalitions. You really think you're gonna get somebody to be on your side by telling them they suck? Doesn't work. And that's why Trump sucks. Even though there's so much evidence of him doing things that are supposedly anathema to what he's supposed to be about, draining the swamp and the deep state and all that other bullshit lawfare. Right. I mean, all these things that he campaigned on that now he's making worse. I get it. But just Seize on the part that they're getting worse, that it's wrong, and that we all know it has to be better. Seize on that. You will build on that. The Met gala is a divider. It's not a uniter. It's a bad look. People are suffering, they're struggling. And I don't care what you write on your dress, it doesn't matter. You're not with them. You're not a real one. When you're there, you got to think about that, and you got to think about what this means. And you can bitch about Bezos, but you shouldn't be there. If you care about those things, you shouldn't be there. And I don't think it's as simple as demonizing the rich. I think that's stupid. I think it's a big part of the American dream, is to be rich, to make the money so that you can live the way you want to and do what you want to do. Money is license. Lucre is license. My father used to say, Filthy lucre, lucre is license. He would say, you use it to give. You use it to take care of you, Use it to help you. Use it to give to yours and those you're responsible for, those you care about. And that is what's going to win, is to remind of that, to remind to our commitment to one another, to the many, to the needs of the many, not the wants of the few. And that right now, our politics is dominated by the few, by magnified minorities, people who get paid to provoke you, to outrage you. And the parties have bought into it, and the pundits are making money off it, and the influencers are all about it, and the media echoes it, and that's where we are, are. But the people are understanding it and waking up to it more and more every day. So don't send them the signal that you're part of what is apart from them. You don't want to be a part of what is apart from them. You want to be a part of them and an extension of what they need and what they want. Because we all know what's wrong. We know what needs to be addressed and to be fixed. Build on that. Don't be part of what divides us, be part of what unites us. And what unites us is that we all know what's wrong and needs to be better be about that. That's plenty for the midterms. And that's where people are going to be with their votes. See it or get beat by it. You should have learned the lesson by now. 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