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th software projects. And the question is are there applications within DOGE where that also makes sense? Certainly there are applications where the scalpel makes sense, but do you think the DOGE people can't tell the difference between when to use the scalpel and when to use the chainsaw? If the bureaucracy is fighting you, which tool do you use? I'll put this to you, those of you who are experi…

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, which doesn't really even make sense because, like I said, they should be using the scalpel sometimes and the chainsaw sometimes. And from the outside, you can't tell. You just can't tell from the outside what's working and what isn't. That's just not a thing. Then you've got the Jasmine Crockett approach, which is just be really stupid in public every single day. Like really stupid and try to sell that. All right. All right. We got some stupidity going. And then you've got the Signal app story that the dramacrats are trying to sell you with their faces. I'm so ag and those are the best plays. You know, also yelling at their own leadership for being terrible. So I've never seen a more disorganized, completely broken party than this. I don't know if there's any time in my life this has ever happened.

Did I coin drama? No, I did not. No, I did not. So I stole that from a DM that I got where somebody DM'd it to me, but I love it. The dramacrats. It puts it in perspective because I really do think that the Democrats are largely a theatrical production. And I mean that literally in the sense that they're acting about how mad they are. They're acting about how much of a difference anything that they're talking about matters and that's all they have.

When I see Republicans, let's take the story earlier about Mike Johnson. When he says that the Congress has control over these courts, the funding for these courts, was that theatrical? Not even a little bit. That was just matter of fact. This is something that we might do. It's important. And he just tells you that's it. When Trump signs his executive orders, even though he's like the greatest showman, he's largely just communicating what he's doing in an interesting way. It's not a theater because there are real things happening and you can see the reality of it in the executive order. So it seems to me that Republicans have similar opinions because conservatives have similar opinions to each other and that when they describe them, they're just talking. But when the Democrats get involved, I think it's because they don't understand policy or I don't know. They just seem to be locked into a theatrical mode where they believe that selling the disgust on their faces is all they have to sell. Look at the disgust on my face. Oh. Oh.

And then I'll say again, what do you think would be the reaction of the typical Democrat voter if they read a story about the Signal app situation and the story was just described in just cold dry terms. Well, looks like this shouldn't have happened, but luckily nobody got hurt. Everybody learned something. Mike Waltz took full responsibility. Looks like his staff member did it. How much do you think an average voter would care if they just heard it that way? But I will bet you that for the rest of this year at least, if you bring up anything about Trump doing good stuff, a Democrat will say, "Oh, but what about that massive disgusting incompetence from that Signal app?" And it's the theatrical act that they saw on TV. They're going to see the news people do it. They'll see the pundits do it. And they'll just act like that. It's definitely just acting. And once you see it,

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you can't unsee it. It's just so obvious and so pervasive on one side. All right. So that's all I got for today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers. And the rest of you I will see tomorrow same time same place on YouTube and Rumble and X. Thanks for joining and Locals coming at you privately in 30.

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