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ut will be gone. So but I also wonder did we think that the WEF, World Economic Forum, was the shadow government until DOGE discovered that USAID was a shadow government at least for the United States and for a lot of countries it affected. So maybe we just like having the idea there's a shadow government, but as soon as you see that what USAID was doing, that looks like the real one and then the…
← Previous segment →ause I'll tell you my current view on Democrats besides the fact that they're performing as opposed to operating on core beliefs. I think Democrats are motivated by jealousy and hate and that's why they perform. Imagine if your core belief was non-existent but your real motivation is a revengey, jealousy, hatred of people who are doing better than you, you would have to perform because you couldn't say the truth. You couldn't say, you know, honestly, I'm just full of hate. So I think I want Trump to lose. Not because he's doing a bad job. I'm just full of hate. And DOGE, even though it sounds like a good idea on paper, Musk is so rich and having so many babies. And I'm not having any babies and I'm not rich. So I just like to see him fail. You couldn't really do that. You can think it but you can't say it out loud. So you're going to have to put on a performance instead. You're going to have to pretend that you have normal views and that you're a normal person.
But Republicans seem motivated by two things. One is the ick factor. Now you've heard this before that conservatives seem to be more likely to be icked out by anything that's non-standard or just icky. And I don't want to give you examples of what that is because that would cause problems. But there are just some things that make conservatives go, "Ugh, get that out of here. I don't want to be part of that at all." But that's not the only factor. I think Republicans have a growth mindset which is you can do well, the
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country can do well, we can create more for everybody. So if you have a growth mindset you don't really need to pretend when you're talking about what you want. I want to lower taxes. I want to get rid of regulations. It's just a growth mindset. And the Democrats are just literally just putting on performances trying to cover up the fact that their real motivation is just some kind of horrible hat…
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