Jordy Meiselas
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And if you're that guy, how could you, unless you're just the most deranged human being,
Take that job.
Like if someone were to say to me, hey, Ben, we'd love for you to be a pilot.
You don't have to go to pilot school.
I want you to fly the airplane and we're going to pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year and you're going to get great benefits, but we need you to fly the plane.
We'll give you a PowerPoint.
Just watch the PowerPoint.
And then I would be, no, what are you talking about?
Similarly, if you did that for me as a doctor, if you did that for me as a as one of these government positions that I know nothing about.
If you were to say, Ben, we want you to run the Federal Reserve.
I go, OK, I mean, I may have taken macroeconomics in undergrad, but that doesn't qualify me to be on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
But this 22 year old kid takes the job.
They gut 75 to 80% of their staff.
We know that our federal resources are now being spent either finding Donald Trump's name on the Epstein files to redact and remove it or rounding up migrants and citizens to throw them into concentration camps.
That's where...
And people who are like hardworking people, not the criminals.
We all want the criminals to be arrested and go away, provided they're given process that's allowed in the United States of America.
But they're so focused on Home Depot and all these things.
At what point are we able to say, and I think it's now, I think it was weeks ago and months ago, that these actions have consequences?
This shooter was posting on many a message board in the most obvious and brazen ways.