Aaron Retica

the pain people are suffering, where you talk about problems.

He loves to talk about bloody difficulties, but we'll get to that later because it was really a blood-filled speech.

But they can't do that, right?

They can't present him with material problems.

that is at variance with his conception of the world.

And so it makes actually their task very difficult.

And it was, I mean, if we're talking about whether it was like boring or interesting, it was not super interesting, right?

Well, it's not just that, because they also, if you tell them eggs are down and

And maybe beef is coming down, but food prices are up 3%, right?

People buy the food.

Right.

So it's trying to win entirely with communication, though, right?

And there was a strategic point to the speech, but also they were seeking to create memes, to create moments.

The thing they were clearly proudest of among all those stunts was his little spiel about how... If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.

And then he's focused on, oh, you guys are sitting, you guys are sitting, you guys are sitting.

The immigration thing, there's so many things to talk about with this.

One thing that really struck me last night is he told many terrible stories about a commercial truck that badly injured a girl who was then shown.

And he talked about the murder in Charlotte on a light rail train of a young Ukrainian refugee.

But he made an interesting and telling mistake.

He's saying, you know, open borders, illegal alien did that.