this one he gets closer and closer to being a national candidate. He's closer and closer. And the thing I appreciate about it is the technique. So the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree with he says it publicly and without any pullback. He just says it clearly and cleanly. Yeah that's common sense. I'm in favor. That is really strong technique because when he disagrees with us what's the first thing you're going to think? You're going to rethink your own thoughts or your own position because if somebody who's just always on one side and there only can ever be on one side you discount their opinion completely because you know it didn't matter if they even thought through they were going to be on that side. But if somebody sends the impression that on every topic he's going to look at it commonsensically and give some examples—oh this is a good candidate it's a Republican but it's a good candidate two thumbs up—every time he does that he sends a signal that he's thinking about it from the ground up. So if he does three or four things that Republicans say yeah well yeah that's a good point we agree with that common sense and then he says something you don't agree with politically you know something that agrees a little bit more with a progressive agenda your first thought should be ah I don't like that but why is this smart guy saying it? See that's the superpower that Trump has at the moment. Trump's superpower with his pirate ship of advisers from Elon Musk to RFK Jr. and Tulsi etc. It makes you think that they must be operating on some kind of common sense basis otherwise they couldn't get along because you know you have ex-Democrats who presumably wouldn't easily embrace the right unless there was some common sense thing they could hang on to. And they are. So Trump has the common sense advantage in the sense that it's clear that he will look at both sides and look and listen to the voices from both sides and go after it as a common sense thing whatever it is. So Fetterman's building that. He doesn't have it yet but watching him do it is fun.

The Washington Post continues to move a little bit toward being useful instead of just being a propaganda rag. So it could be that Jeff Bezos is pretty serious about turning the Washington Post into more of a credible publication instead of the propaganda rag it has been. But Byron York is pointing out that they've got an editorial about the Jordan Neely, the man who died with the Penny situation on the subway. And I just want to describe how Byron York describes the editorial. I liked how he did this. He said the liberal editorial board wants to say Jordan Neely should have been committed. That is self-evidently true. But it causes the writers so much pain that they have to lard it with so much of the the criminal is really the victim and we failed Jordan and we're not racist verbiage that it takes them a while to get to the point but they finally get there.

So this is the corner that the identity people paint themselves into that if they want to pretend they're moving toward common sense they have to somehow shed everything they've ever said and thought before because it was identity based. Like this was so common sense screams that this poor Jordan Neely guy should have gotten some help and you wish the government had some kind of facility to do it so we can certainly agree on that.

According to Kerry Picket who writes for the Washington Times the FBI is trying to anti-Trump the FBI before he gets there. So Christopher Wray said he would be retiring from that job before Trump gets in office so he doesn't have to get fired. That's a good play. But before he does that he's also apparently doing a bunch of promotions. So he's promoting people into positions that unless Trump's FBI guy gets rid of them there might be a lot of people who don't like Trump in major FBI positions. So this is from an inside source and that they're planning to slow walk the new FBI director's entry into the agency for three to four months. So they're literally plotting to make sure that their own management can't be effective. Now if any of that's true 100% of them need to be fired or at least the ones involved with it. If they're literally just trying to make changes so it's harder for Trump to do his job everybody involved with that needs to get fired. Even if you got promoted yesterday if you're any part of that no no it's not your job to make it hard for your boss to do the job of the people of the United States. No you need to be fired for that.

Jen Psaki has been going on some conservative podcasts and she said this. She thought that the left needed to hear. She said two amazing things just happened. First I went on about a half a dozen right-wing shows and they all agreed—we should cut the Pentagon, prevent generals from working for defense contractors and Edward Snowden should be pardoned. And she says the second thing is that absolutely no one on the left believes the right. So six out of six podcasts all said yeah we like all that stuff and not a single person on the left believes that's true.

What do these things all have in common? Cutting the Pentagon, preventing generals from becoming defense contractors and pardoning Snowden. Now the Snowden