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this and maybe it's a communicator's trick as well. You can swear if you do it once and it's something that's really important and you just want to bring attention to it. Or if you're somebody like Trump who sort of incorporated it into his personality that if he gives a rally speech he might lay an S-bomb on you. He doesn't do F's but maybe a hell, maybe a damn, maybe a you know maybe an S. So if…

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Fetterman. And I think that they're completely on the wrong page. In the end they're going to come up with whoever they think does the best job of pretending to be authentic. I think that's the extent of their visibility of what's going on. Huh let's get an outsider who can pretend to be authentic. Okay okay.

Now I don't know if Democrats can ever win with a Mark Cuban or a Fetterman because if they look like they're too much white men I just don't know if it works. I think Biden might have been the last dinosaur to squeak by in the Democratic party anyway.

One of the people who some think, NBC has an article about this, is that Chris Murphy, Democrat Chris Murphy. He's been on TV a lot. You've seen him doing a lot of anti-Trump stuff and he's just all over the place. But the thinking is that he's already running a shadow campaign for president. Now he would not be an outsider but he would at least be a somewhat skilled insider. But my question is this. Why do the Democrats have so many people who look like movie villains? Because Chris Murphy you just look at his eyes and you say to yourself oh my God that's like pure evil. Now I'm not saying he is. I don't know one way or the other but he has the look like if he came into the casting office and you're looking for the most evil looking person you could ever hire for your movie I'm pretty sure he would get the job.

And I don't really know are there a lot of Republicans who look like they could be movie evil? Think of John Brennan. You know John Brennan has that face that is a movie evil face. Who is AOC? AOC who's got the shaved head which she pulls off by the way the shaved head and she wears the Superman villain outfits which actually look great on her if I'm judging her from a fashion and appearance perspective she's actually terrific. I'm actually impressed. She does a great job of creating a look but the net effect of the look is Superman villain. Yeah I've just never seen so many people in one party who could be cast as movie villains. Like what is up with that?

Meanwhile Red State article by Bob Hogue is talking about how Chuck Todd who was on NBC forever was just dumping on Biden for being a bad human being basically. And he was speaking with Steve Schmidt who was one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project which I think even Steve Schmidt had to get out of that because it was just so it was like living in a sphincter. He had to get away. But here's what Chuck Todd said about Biden. Of course it's too little too late but it's fun to talk about. He goes I have to tell you something about Joe Biden. There's this mythology about Joe Biden that the man cared so much. It's all bull.

And then Todd said that Biden had created this myth over his 40-year career that he was an incredible family man and instead what he really was was a craven political animal that was desperate that considered a run for president every four years he was eligible. Now I think part of the complaint was he had s

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ome family issues some addicts in the family and the thinking was that his family needed him more than the country maybe. But it's interesting to watch Chuck Todd talk that way about Biden. And I think what you're going to find is that every day that goes by will be another Democrat saying okay Biden was just the worst train wreck in the history. He was never good behind closed doors. He was a mon…

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