e for persuasion, the most important starting rule for persuasion: you have to make people focus on your thing more than they were. That's it. That's your rule number one. So Massie is turning this concept of debt into a physical device that your eyes are looking at. It makes you think about it more than you were thinking about it. That is really good persuasion. So you know it looks like it's a clever toy and people want one because other people have one, but it's way more than that. It's just really, really smart persuasion.

Meanwhile, we got a new Speaker of the House. There was no real drama there. Took one vote and Mike Johnson's back at it. And he's already saying that the House Republicans will investigate the disbanded House Select Committee. Those are the bad people who did the January 6 show trial. What is not specified is whether the Republicans will run it as a show trial, which would be kind of perfect. You know, to do to the select committee what they did to the January Sixers. Why not do it in public?

Now I'm sure that no matter what they do they'll have to testify in public, but wouldn't it be funny if they did what the J6 committee did, which was hire a TV producer and really make it watchable so that when you watch it you're like, wow, this is interesting. Because I'm not sure everybody watches the clips of somebody testifying for three hours, but you would definitely watch it if they entertainer-ized it. Making up a word. So I don't know that Republicans do that, but under the Trump administration I feel like that might be the kind of thing that Trump could add to the process. Meaning, you know, you don't have to do this the boring way.

Well, Mr. President, we don't want to be like the Democrats. We just want to get to the bottom of it and find out