Rahm Emanuel
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And then third, let me get to something both in and else.
I was actually thinking about it as I was this morning, looking at some things in the paper, and it reminds me of a bike trip I did.
So when I was done being mayor, I biked around Lake Michigan, 984 miles, 13 days.
And my joke was that I discovered in the process that the worse the cell phone service was, the nicer people were.
But I actually think, one serious note,
You look at the reaction to how the number one news item is the Artemis spaceship.
People in America are all over this in a level that they've never seen.
Also true after years aside, the Olympic Games.
Third is another kind of touchstone anecdote.
I saw something today.
People are paying X dollars so they can be in a reading room together in a community with other people.
I think people are yearning for a sense of threads that tie us together.
They're exhausted from a division politics.
And
We've had division before.
We'll have division again.
When you have a country this diverse, there's always going to be divisions.
Gender, education, race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation.
But we've never had a president that exacerbates it.
So a president, he's not the responsible for the divisions, but he is responsible for exacerbating them.