Chris Hayes

Like, is it attention getting to be like the incoming president wants to take over Greenland? Like, yeah, it is. Is he serious? I don't know. Is it a good idea? No, it's not. Should we debate it? Should we talk about? I don't know. But we're all just now inside the attentional vortex, right? Of the Greenland conversation. And he's done that again and again and again.

Like, is it attention getting to be like the incoming president wants to take over Greenland? Like, yeah, it is. Is he serious? I don't know. Is it a good idea? No, it's not. Should we debate it? Should we talk about? I don't know. But we're all just now inside the attentional vortex, right? Of the Greenland conversation. And he's done that again and again and again.

Yes. I mean, that latter point, I think he is selecting for people that will keep attention and communicate for sure. I mean, I still think there's a certain amount of casting look to it with all of, we should note, like all of the... biases that come with that, right? Like, if you're looking for a general on central casting, you're looking for a white man, right?

Yes. I mean, that latter point, I think he is selecting for people that will keep attention and communicate for sure. I mean, I still think there's a certain amount of casting look to it with all of, we should note, like all of the... biases that come with that, right? Like, if you're looking for a general on central casting, you're looking for a white man, right?

Which is part of, I think... Yeah, but you're not looking for Pete Hegseth. I guess, although I also think there's a certain amount of, like, who does he see up on the TV?

Which is part of, I think... Yeah, but you're not looking for Pete Hegseth. I guess, although I also think there's a certain amount of, like, who does he see up on the TV?

Oh, definitely. I mean, I also think, I think there's also an Occam's Razor Well, I don't know. I also think the man is the oldest man ever to be elected to be president of the United States and, like, maybe doesn't want to spend as much time doing everything and kind of, you know, if someone says, last season of the show, you had really long shooting days.

Oh, definitely. I mean, I also think, I think there's also an Occam's Razor Well, I don't know. I also think the man is the oldest man ever to be elected to be president of the United States and, like, maybe doesn't want to spend as much time doing everything and kind of, you know, if someone says, last season of the show, you had really long shooting days.

This season, we're going to front some other characters so, like, we can cut your shooting days in half. Like, I think there's a little bit of that happening now.

This season, we're going to front some other characters so, like, we can cut your shooting days in half. Like, I think there's a little bit of that happening now.

I'd like to keep this going for years, and we can.

I'd like to keep this going for years, and we can.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I think there's two components to that. One, I think you cannot avoid is that whatever you think about Joe Biden's abilities to be president in the sense of doing the job day to day, he was very clearly, and I think irrefutably, incapable of occupying the bully pulpit. Like, I just don't think there's...

Well, I think there's two components to that. One, I think you cannot avoid is that whatever you think about Joe Biden's abilities to be president in the sense of doing the job day to day, he was very clearly, and I think irrefutably, incapable of occupying the bully pulpit. Like, I just don't think there's...

any debate or argument on either side like empirically he gave fewer interviews he gave fewer press conferences he he i mean compare go watch barack obama be president and or george w bush or all these people did joe button like it just was the case that i think largely due to his age he was not capable of focusing and occupying the attentional space at the center of the presidency

any debate or argument on either side like empirically he gave fewer interviews he gave fewer press conferences he he i mean compare go watch barack obama be president and or george w bush or all these people did joe button like it just was the case that i think largely due to his age he was not capable of focusing and occupying the attentional space at the center of the presidency

So you got to start with that.

So you got to start with that.