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rman, Feinstein, and now Mitch McConnell. How is this okay? How is this okay? I mean, really, there's nobody who can tell Mitch McConnell it's time. I'm pretty disappointed in Republicans. You know, let me just say this. If you're a Republican or a conservative and you've been saying that Joe Biden needs to step down because of age but you're not saying it about Mitch McConnell, then we can't take…
← Previous segment →on both during slavery and after. And it would be better to have a skill than not to have a skill. They both say that. Not only is the entire debate about something that nobody said, nobody said the part that the slaves had a good deal. Everybody said the part that they learn skills and everybody agrees that learning skills is better than not learning skills. So this is like a double triple absurdity situation. This is summer squared. Stories that aren't real but we have something to talk about.
All right, I would like to give you the best part of my presentation today which is how to deal with the Republicans, mostly the Biden camp. If we're calling Republicans extreme MAGA, does it seem to you they're getting some traction on this extreme MAGA situation? Does it feel like it's working? Because it feels like other people are picking it up. But I'm going to teach you a persuasion trick for removing extreme MAGA from the attack. You ready? Now it's not much different from other techniques so you'll recognize the technique as embrace and amplify. But I'm tweaking embrace and amplify a little bit because embrace and amplify means you just embrace somebody's dumbass idea and then you pretend you agree with it and they're pretending you agree surfaces all the problem with the idea. This is a little bit different but it's a close cousin to that.
All right, imagine a video. It would be a viral video using actors. All right, the actors are a couple of very Republican ordinary looking people just like the most ordinary Republicans you could have. But let's say they're a little bit overweight just so you can imagine this. I'm going to draw you a picture in your head. It's a little bit overweight. They're very middle class. So you see them in their living room sitting on the couch. Maybe mom is knitting or something and dad's there with a man's beer, not a Bud Light. And they're watching the news and you hear Joe Biden say something about extreme MAGA, extreme MAGA, extreme MAGA. And you see the two looking at each other and they're like, well we're regular MAGA. What was that, an upgrade? Is that like a promotion? Like I'd like to be more extreme. And so you see the two people trying to figure out how they can get to extreme. And so they talk to their friends. You know it all happens really quickly because it's like a quick video. They talk to their friends and they're like we'd like to be more extreme. And they're like well you could wear this hat that has embossed lettering on it. Like is that extreme? Well compared to the regular hat that has no embossed lettering it's way more extreme. So you would do like little skits of regular Republicans trying to become or get upgraded to the excitement of being an extreme MAGA but they can't figure out what is incl
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uded. So they're trying to figure out how to do it. What's the process? How do I get to be more extreme? And of course the point of it is it's a ridiculous concept. There's no such thing as an extreme MAGA. It's all made up. So you want to embrace it so that you can mock it. That's different than embrace and amplify because when you embrace and amplify the mocking is sort of embedded in your actio…
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