Siberia

it? Not to insult the great state of Ohio, but basically saying, can we just send him to Ohio? Yeah.

They put him on a train to Siberia.

And to Vivek's credit, he went out and he hired basically all of J.D. Vance's team, led by Jay Shabria.

He hired all his advisors, and they came from the John Kasich wing, who kind of reinvented themselves.

We had to do that because you didn't want anyone to have a back seat.

No one should be seated in Siberia.

So on the outsides of the ballroom, we elevated them so they had a better view.

So everybody had a better seat.

So there's just a real limitation there.

If Looney is unplayable, which he is, Jared Vanderbilt remains just buried in Siberia somewhere, and then Adu is currently out, you just look at the rotation, and I guess Jake is the third best rebounder, but even then, he's not consistently going to grab more than four or five rebounds in a typical game.

So I just look at...

I've been really impressed with the Zaire Matisse pairing, and I am coming more around to that vision.

Not only is he basically a free speech purist, principally to start with, but he took President Trump's executive order, defunded all manner of different grants that were coming out of HHS to fund this censorship apparatus with the social media big tech companies.

installed all sorts of good free speech players at the top of his sub-agencies to police it all, and then re-engineered some of these, and fired a bunch of people, and at minimum reassigned them and basically sent them off to Siberia if they had engaged in any of these practices.

And then on top of that, to the extent that he had to keep control of these grants, he re-engineered them to a proper health program.

uh program within the hhs so he's put his money where his mouth is uh and and i think partly because he was a victim of all this and one of the most he's paid a

There's an example from New Jersey.

You talked about ballot Siberia, which sounds like a really bad place to be.

And I wondered if you can just tell us, you know, what is the county line and how are parties coordinating, these policy demanding groups coordinating on controlling that line?

Well, in New Jersey, which is a strong party state, there are party committees that make recommendations that have usually several hundred campaign workers that they can send out to knock on doors.

You didn't have to worry about all this kind of stuff, and so it was just a good move, and Portland was kind of a shocker.

I kind of thought they were gonna send him to, like, Siberia, like Sacramento.

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Um, you know, that was...

Moving on.

[laughs] Um, Enrique said Chase, Chase would've been sent to Siberia.

[laughs] Yes.

Um, I wanna talk about CarVal versus Vanna very, very shortly.