Ben Myselis

No men, you don't want that.

He wants to get his deranged point of view about everything, his just constant gaslighting and lies.

He wants to get that out, but rather than himself just saying it, he wants the tacit approval of these people who people in other aspects of society respect in some way that is beyond politics.

So he is using you to launder his...

his political statements, oftentimes a very offensive rhetoric.

He's laundering that through you by your reaction in the White House.

And I think that's something that's worth, it's just worth knowing if you're going to show up at one of these things, why he is having you there and what his plan is when you actually do arrive.

It is a great point.

And we're in this bizarre world where Trump is used to just bringing people out and using them as props and showing off these kind of trophies and making big stories out of it.

For that, though, he's been oddly silent.

um but he got his headline already and bringing it back to the beginning of the episode you know in some respects he's just happy that he got the headline he's happy that he got all these uh publications to be speaking about this daring rescue and not question if there was anything a deeper happening

during when all of this was going on, if we're actually getting the true story.

I'm not saying we are or we are not.

I'm just saying people are no longer digging for that information because they feel like they already got it.

And I think Ben's concept that the painting of the floor blue at the reflecting pool is a metaphor for everything that Donald Trump does is an apt one.

because Donald Trump is constantly metaphorically painting the floor blue, despite the fact that he is making everything uglier and worse off for people.

I mean, if we're even just looking at this, the way that Trump, their new thing over the past 24 hours that they wanna get rid of the gas tax.

Do you guys see this?

We're gonna get rid of the federal gas tax.

The gas tax has stayed the same now for many, many years.