Mark Bednar

Great name for a company.

Well, there's kind of two points to this.

One, thus far, it seems like a lot of these foreign policy moves, the administration, they've done a really kind of succinct Occam's razor.

Like there wasn't a buildup to getting Maduro.

It's just let's go get him.

It wasn't a, you know, geopolitical concerns about Russia, China, you know, energy security, all that sort of stuff.

They just went and got him.

So feeling a palpable win out of that, you know, that gets kind of lost in the minutia.

But then also kind of to Melissa's point, there's an attention economy here, right?

There's only so much room of cable news, headlines, press conferences, et cetera.

And if that is being dominated by we got Maduro versus GDP numbers or unemployment numbers,

People, you know, economic sentiment is exactly that.

It's sentiment.

How do you feel about it?

And so if you're not being told or if you're not being kind of surrounded as a voter with important news about the economy, then the sentiment gets lost.

So there's absolutely a there's an attention chasm here.

But in terms of the actual, you know, wins, I don't think that the president has anything to be concerned about with that.

But I kind of reject the notion of that the oil component is sinister, per se.

But I totally agree with the fact that, like, let's say it is about oil, which, like, that's important.

Energy prices are important, geopolitically, et cetera.