Jon Favreau
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Sir, this is a Wendy's.
It's a very, like...
The- What do you guys think of this race?
It has seemed to me like in this race, we've ended up with three archetypes of candidates that we see across the country and have for the last like decade now, which in Bass, you have someone who is very much establishment along with all of the lack of energy
that comes with that.
And she's kind of just running around bragging that, like, we've reduced homelessness by 17%.
And everyone's walking around, and you can see, like, 17%?
It doesn't look like 17%.
And is that a big number?
And has also been more nimby on housing, has sort of gutted a lot of the housing reforms or hasn't pursued them, hasn't been a great communicator, and is just kind of in the job and doesn't communicate well or a lot.
And then in Nithya, you have someone who is like β this is like what I was just saying about Katie Porter, right?
Who has really thought about these issues, who I think is a wonderful public servant and I think could be a really good public servant, but like has not β
met the sort of performance-related requirements of a candidate.
And it is unfortunate that you can't just be ready to be good at the job and be really smart and into the policy and stuff like that, and that you also need to perform, but we've said this a million times on this show forever, like that's what you need.
And we also have like a lot of Democrats like that across the country.
And then in Pratt, you have someone who, when there is democratic governance and a person in power does not fix the problems that an area is facing,
It is fairly easy for a right-wing populist who's good at getting attention, and no one's better at getting attention than a reality TV star, to come in and tell everyone, yes, you are pissed, I'm pissed too, and if you elect me, then you can stick it to the people in charge, even though his plans are not just cruel, they're just stupid, and that he can't do them, they're against the law, he doesn't have the power to do a lot of the shit he's talking about, he's just making a bunch of fucking...
you know, empty promises that he's not going to be able to fulfill if he wins.
But no one cares about that.
People care about like, OK, he's angry and I'm angry and that's enough.