Richard Feidler

Yeah, illegal to give water or food, right?

That's like the opposite of sausage, I think.

Oh, it's entirely possible.

I mean, I think that... And this is another thing that's quite familiar to me from living in Russia.

Because one day, I'm like, you know, we have to do all these repairs in our house, and it's a major investment.

And another day, I'm like, well, we have to go to Canada, or if not Canada, then where?

And I...

Well, a couple of years ago, as you may know, I actually had a very difficult time getting a visitor's visa.

Because the Russians have convicted me in absentia for my reporting on war crimes in Ukraine.

Yeah, I'm internationally wanted because I'm sentenced to eight years in Russian prison.

The United States will absolutely have to reinvent itself.

I've just given you a little bit of a taste of the American voting system.

And then, you know, we've talked a little bit about our two-party system where one party has become an autocratic party and the other party is a party of money and this insane idea of some imaginary center.

And it's a gerontocracy.

But most importantly, it's a country whose political language has become hollow, which is what makes it so easy to abuse and dismiss.

And we're going to have to invent a new story and a new language.

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