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nk 100%, would look at it and say, uh, maybe you shouldn't have done that. I don't think there's anybody on his team who would say that worked. Nobody. It might be the worst ad I've ever seen. Would you agree? Have you ever seen a worse, more damaging sell for all time? I think it's the king. I don't think you can do more than that. All right, here's something that really happened that is so mind…
← Previous segment →'s signaling the election will be rigged. Which one of those do you choose? Do you choose the one where things are so bad he just told you they're going to rig the election and you better not complain? That would be awful but not as awful as having a sitting president who doesn't know he just told the country that the election is going to be rigged and they better not complain about it if it's not true. Those are both really, really bad. And they're both so bad I can't wrap my head around it. Do you feel the same thing? Whichever of those two interpretations you take, they're both so bad. I don't know what to do about it. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know what to suggest. I don't know what to recommend. I'm just sort of shocked into inaction. I just go, uh, uh, I don't know what to do. So that's happening.
Here's something that I think the Democrats might be sensitive to. Would you say this is true or false? Democrats, compared to Republicans, are more concerned about how they look to other people. True or false? I realize it's like a gross generalization, right? So all gross generalizations don't apply to any individual. I think we'll know. But it does seem like the whole awokeness thing is about making sure that we appear to each other in the best way. Whereas a Republican attitude would be more like if you don't like it, you... Am I right? I mean, very general kind of a difference. You know, it doesn't apply to every person. So if that's true, if you can take that as a stipulated truth, then I think that Republicans are missing a huge lever for manipulating Democrats, which is that you can manipulate Democrats on their embarrassment. Democrats don't like to be embarrassed and they don't like to look bad. Democrats, I'm sorry, Republicans, they don't care so much.
You want to see my impression of a Republican who doesn't care what you think about them? All right, I'm not a Republican, but I'll give you my impression of a Republican who doesn't give a what you think about them. All right, here it is. Turn on the music. I'm gonna dance. All right, how was that? If you're listening, that was me giving my best impression of air guitar and a White man dancing at a barbecue. Republicans are just not embarrassed, I don't think so. They just don't have that gene.
But here's how to use embarrassment if I were using it as a weapon. So this is just a lesson on persuasion, okay? If you can find some psychological element of the other team that you're trying to influence, you know, maybe you can push that because it won't come back at you if your team doesn't respond the same way to embarrassment. But here's the thing. How embarrassed would you be if you'd been a Democrat supporter for the past two years? Have you noticed that there are no Biden signs any
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where? Does anybody notice that? Because there must have been some during the election in 2020, but did everybody scrape them off their car? Have you ever seen a Biden bumper sticker in the last 12 months? Because they must have scraped them all off the car, right? I think they hid the shirts. I think it should be embarrassing at this point. Because Democrats, here's their message for the midterm…
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