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Dave Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

And like, OK, granted, like, look, there is something to the broadly speaking, his point that.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

If you're going to put a political coalition together, OK, not everybody's going to get what they want all the time.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

You got like this is the way real politics works is you got to sacrifice some things for some other things.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

And then hopefully you can keep being a winning coalition and get some more that you're not going to get everything.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

Well, you get some of the things you want.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

Like, all right, there's there's like.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

In a vacuum, there's some truth to that.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

argument but then again it also can't be really important things that you sacrifice because then you know you're in the business of doing really evil things and

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

You know, like, so, okay, yeah, there is some maturity in that in theory, but then there's also some maturity in recognizing that once you accept this worldview, once you accept Dinesh's mature framework, you've really kind of handed the keys over to evil big government institutions in a way that they can never possibly be hoped to be reined in.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

Because, Rob, how easy is it to rig that game now?

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

So all I got to do is make sure the Democrats are a little bit worse, and then you'll support the Republicans no matter what.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

In this instance, it's like what we're talking about, you might notice, Dinesh, this is why it's so pathetic.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

It almost hurts me as a man.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

It hurts me as someone who has some respect for Dinesh D'Souza to see this because he can't even pretend to defend the actual policy, right?

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

He goes, yeah, that sucks.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

Like, sucks that we're not getting the rest of the Epstein files.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

That is bullshit, you know?

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

But anyway, we gotta support him because you're on the team.

Part Of The Problem
Art of the Deal

So he's not even defending the thing.