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r nuclear energy has officially ended. Does that even sound possible? The debate over nuclear energy, it just ended. So Jennifer Granholm, who's the Secretary of Energy, right, she just gave a big speech and made it as clear as you could possibly make it. Climate change is an emergency. This is her framing. And you can't handle it without nuclear. And that nuclear energy is now safer and the new t…
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So I'm gonna say congratulations to the people who put in the time. I feel like I tried to help as much as possible. I don't know if I did but I tried. And it looks like it happened. I mean if five years ago I said to you, I think we'll have a complete agreement on this nuclear energy thing, would you believe that? I mean it seemed like if something was just going to be a permanent division. Now like I said the public still hasn't caught up but the fact that both Republicans and Democrats are pro-nuclear now, that's the end of the debate because the public will catch up.
Yeah somebody says honestly it wasn't even on your radar. Yeah that's true.
All right. Fox News, and I'm gonna give them credit for this. I don't know if they came up with it but do you remember when kids in cages was the big story? That kids in cages story was really powerful wasn't it? Because it wasn't just oh immigration is going to be really bad for a lot of people. That doesn't feel, it's not visual, doesn't hit you in the feels. But then you say we're putting kids in cages. Now was that true? Well you know sort of. They were fenced in areas. Calling them cages makes it ten times worse how it sounds. So yeah it was true-ish. You could make the argument but it was so visual. Meaning that you would not only see the pictures of it, some of the pictures were fake but you still remember them, but you'd have in your mind a perfect picture of it. So that's what made it so devastatingly effective.
And now Fox News and the right has come up with their response to kids in cages. It's called Haitians under a bridge. Haitians under a bridge. Do you know how much the under the bridge part adds to the story? A lot. Same as the cages. It's not just kids and it's not just Haitians. It's kids in cages and it's Haitians under a bridge. Because as soon as you add the under a bridge the movie is complete, right? You don't need all the details. You just see a massive humanity under a bridge and you can see it.
So here's your persuasion lesson for the day. Adding the under a bridge really sells this story just like adding in cages sold the story before. So once you see a play that works for one team you can pretty much depend on the other team giving th
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at technique a try. And here it's happening and it's working. It looks like it's capturing our imagination in a very similar way. I mean kids is obviously the ultimate. If you could do something about a story where kids are being injured that's your ultimate persuasion. But Haitians have something going for them too don't they? What the Haitians have going for them is that they're black. And in t…
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