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Amanda

👤 Speaker
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We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Our interests are so more aligned than the literally eight people who own half...

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

of what America owns.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

What is that story and how do we get across it?

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Because the lines are more intractable than ever in terms of who we believe is responsible for why we don't have nice things.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Yes.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

We can have cookies.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

The circle goes all the way around until it meets in the middle.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Everything you're saying leads me to the Epstein files because there are no true believers here.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

These people are agnostic.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

I mean, look at Trump.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

He was like a Democrat and believed in abortion, giving money to Democrats for however long until he saw a strategic change.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

power structure that could advance him until he realized he could use the tools that he knew about the psychology of people to manipulate them into believing

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Something that would advance him.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

The binaries that are set up, the liberal conservative, the black and white, all of those are actually made up things to divide us when actually the loyalty that exists within this power elite is infinite.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Only loyalty to their own concentration of power, to their own impunity, to their own ability to serve their own interests.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

So I'm so interested in what you have learned from your full read of the Epstein files, because to me, that pulls the curtain back.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Even Dems right now are like, well, I know who the bad guy is.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

and it's those right-wing conservatives, when in fact it's much more complicated and much more simple than that.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

Studying a culture.

We Can Do Hard Things
WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas

You are studying a culture.