Faiz Shakir
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And I think that has more aggressively splintered the coalition faster than I think a lot of people would have assumed.
Because he's we don't give him any credit for this, but he is brazen about putting the corruption out loud in front of you to say this is exactly why I'm operating everything from, you know, take the Iran war.
It's just, you know, here we're going to go do it with Israel.
It's very clear in your face how we're going to execute this all the way through.
you know, to just, you know, these AI tech deals will be done at the behest of Tim Cook sitting right here in front of me and then him out loud stating that these are the people, these high IQ individuals who I listen to, who I think are really brilliant and are going to guide this administration.
So when most working class Americans right now are worried that does the president even see me, understand the struggles of affordability or cost of living that I'm going through, and they're worried that his agenda is somehow not on a different
is fully on a different plane than the one in which they live.
They are correct because he's telling them that every given day, he tells you the things that are most important to him and none of them are around affordability.
You can sense Susie Wiles and company are trying to compel him with the State of the Union and other things.
And he's stuck in the bad, as we remember about this with Biden, you get stuck in the finger wag of don't you people know that I am doing amazing things?
Why aren't you appreciating all of the amazing things I've done?
Instead of what we argued with Biden, I think would also be true of Trump.
You lean forward and say, here's the fundamental problems in society that you are dealing with that I am focused on and I have to do next.
Not backwards.
They always get stuck looking backwards and saying, I've just done all these amazing things.
What?
Well, we get into the psychology of the Trump v. Vance thing, which is kind of entertaining and growing.
The conservatives, the right-wing populists, Gail Slater, who goes into the DOJ.
There's obviously this musing about him suggesting Rubio might, you know, be a better candidate, Mar-a-Lago.
And I was wondering if they leaked all of your thought