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more than you needed to because apparently the solution is here. They just have to pass that bill. Both sides like it. Just have to do the damn job. That's all. Just do your job and save you 20% on the pharmacy or something. All right. North Korea says they're optimistic about their upcoming working-level talks about denuclearization. Now here's something I don't know about this process. If you h…

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they know more than we do about the variables that are involved but absolutely a good idea from an individual will go right into the president's hands. That's amazing. That's amazing. And it can happen in 24 hours. It's like it's a whole new world.

So I could not be more optimistic about the Republic because I think the Republic went stale and instead of having to get refreshed with the blood of patriots — because you know the founders assumed that every now and then you got to refresh the tree of freedom with the blood of patriots or something — as luck would have it we've taken that warfare to the internet. So there's blood of patriots but it's in the form of people getting ratioed and denied and losing their jobs because of social media. So that stuff's still pretty bloody you know in a figurative sense but it looks like patriots are winning and they're putting tons of energy. People are putting their necks on the line. I am. You've watched me put my neck on the line repeatedly. I take risks that you shouldn't take because I can afford it, right? Made enough money that if I lost my job tomorrow I'd be fine. So you get to watch me take some risks that I'm happy to take on your behalf because I can afford it and you can't. So I'm happy to do that as a patriot and your support to me makes that meaningful, right? The fact that you support me in this collectively is what makes it doable.

So your individual sort of love and support that you give to me — neither of those words are too much I think — allows me to boost my voice and boost other people like the ones I mentioned. So it's a good system as long as we have this president. I hope this president is as flexible because I'd hate to lose this. It's pretty important.

All right. The Washington Post has a hilarious article which I retweeted in which they're mocking the followers of President Trump for assuming that everything he does, everything I say, everything he does is genius as opposed to accidental flailing. Now they gave two examples of this. Apparently there are some people who think the president cleverly wants to be impeached because it'll be good for his reelection. Now I'm not in that camp. I'm pretty sure if the president had had a choice of being impeached or not being impeached he would choose not impeached. I'm pretty sure that so if there's anybody out there who thinks it's the president cleverly goading them into impeachment as in some actually literally impeaching him I don't think that's his plan.

What I would say — and if you think that was his plan I think you're overthinking it — what I would say is that he's good at improvising. In other words he's good at turning a bad situation into a good one. You want to see an example? What did everybody say about Trump's phone call to Ukraine? They said hey you shouldn't have done that because you've offered an implied quid pro quo. So how often did you hear quid pro quo about President Trump? Hey that phone call was a quid pro quo. And now let me ask you this. What's the new nickname for Joe Biden? Quid Pro Joe. This is actually a new nickname. Quid Pro Joe.

So this president certainly did not have some long-term plan where he would get accused of making a bad phone call and cleverly turned the complaint into a nickname for his biggest competitor but he did it. That's what happened. So I don't think there's any chance he saw it coming, you know set a trap, you know intentionally said things to get people calling using the phrase quid pro quo so he could turn it into a Quid Pro Joe. But it happened so he took a situation and he capitalized on it as we've seen him do over and over and over again.

Grifter Joe. Oh I love you whoever just said Grifter Joe. My god I love that. If ever the word grifter could be used in a more perfect context, Grifter Joe.

Now let's talk about — oh and then the other example they said is people are saying that he does misspellings intentionally and I have to confess I'm probably the one. I probably have to take responsibility for the fact that people think that he misspells intentionally. I've personally — I don't know if I've ever said he's misspelling intentionally. Maybe there was one time. Yeah there might be one time I suspected it. But in general I would say the misspellings are nothing but misspellings. They're typos, misspellings, autocorrect, whatever.

Here's what I think is the case. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. And you know what? That makes me care about — well not his typos but the fact that he doesn't care. And you know he doesn't care because he doesn't take the tweet back and correct it. It would be easy just to take the tweet back, correct it, reissue it. It'd be easy. He doesn't do it. I frickin' love that.

It went from oh you know it's kind of a it's not an optimal look. I mean in the early days you see a typo or something, a grammar error and say huh you know maybe it would have been better if somebody looked at that before he sent that out. But we've gotten to the point where it just seems genuine. Am I right? When you see his typos what do you know for sure? He sent it with his own fingers. Like he actually almost certainly typed it with his own thumbs. You're seeing the actual President of the United States, the most important person in the world I think you could argue, and you're seeing a message that you know damn well came from him and his two little thumbs and is what came right out of his brain.

I kind of love that. I don't think I could like that any more than I do. So typos, I'm all for them because they're little markers for authenticity that originally struck me as it'd be better without these but now that it's sort of just worked into somewhat of an expectation that he'll have a misspelled word or something now and then I just look at them as authentic. Now it just looks like yeah I know where this came from. It didn't go through a committee that's for damn sure. This came from the guy that you voted for. It didn't come from his advisers. Didn't come from handlers. Came from the person you voted for. I can't not love that. Really I can't.

And the other thing it does is that it humanizes him in a way you can relate. How many of you have sent out a tweet with a misspelling? I did it twice yesterday I think. One for sure but if I'm not mistaken I may have sent two misspelled tweets yesterday. I may have been conflating with some in my mind but at least one. So when I see the president do it I think it's authentic and I kind of bond with him a little bit because I go I did that too. I did the same damn thing yesterday. Literally yesterday.

But I love the fact that the Washington Post wrote a story in which they're trying to debunk the notion that the president is playing chess while others are playing checkers. If you don't know I'm probably the author of that idea that he's playing 3D chess. That was me back in 2015 saying that and people mocking me until he became president and now they're still mocking me indirectly but I think it's funny that they feel they need to complain about that because it feels like they're sensing there's too much truth in it. Maybe. Am I reading too much in there? Am I doing a little too much mind reading? That they wouldn't do an article about it if it wasn't getting to them. In other words there's something about this situation that matters to them. They need you to know he's not playing chess. But if he's not playing chess could you explain that to Quid Pro Joe? Because he

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probably thinks they are. Oh Quid Pro Joe. That's the best. And by the way I think Quid Pro Joe is another example that bubbled up from just a Twitter user. I don't know who it was but I think some Twitter user or somebody said it first and it was good so it bubbled up. That's your new republic right there. It's amazing. Chris Cillizza has the funniest article that wasn't trying to be funny toda…

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