Sam Stein

And I know it seems so silly to focus on this, but he's like, I don't do protests.

I don't do protests.

This is not, I've never done protests.

I don't, I look at things on my computer and get mad.

I don't go outside.

My brother's a protester.

I will say, you know, you see them sporadically, but my wife and I were out to go, we're going to go adopt a dog.

I don't know why we're doing this again, but we drove out two hours into the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, this small little town, like nobody there.

We get off the highway and it's, you know, 35 degrees and raining and no one should be outside.

There was like, you know, a hundred people just, you know, off the highway protesting ice in this small nothing town.

It's all anecdotal.

I sound like Tom Freeman right now, but whatever.

I was in the Shenandoah wine country and I turned to my Uber driver.

You don't trust Tricia McLaughlin?

Hold on.

Do you think Trisha McLaughlin has a Google Doc with stock answers for things, and she's just got to fill in a few details?

Because it always reads the same, right?

It's like, ah, Joe Biden released this trend to an Aragua member, and he evaded police, and they had to fire a defensive shot.

Oh, just mix up a few new details to keep it fresh, right?

So much of this is just theater.