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And I think that is what is typical in this country of how it should be. The new owners should be able to dictate what's on the menu. It's your restaurant now, right? What can't be up for question is we're not going to pay the power bill. You can't do that, right?
There are certain things, there are certain systems that regardless of what kind of menu we serve at this restaurant, this has got to get taken care of. Whether it's the power bill, whether it's the water bill, whether it's paying your taxes, you can't just say, hey, I'm an Italian restaurant also. I don't do none of that other stuff. You can't do that. And that's the feeling I get.
There are certain things, there are certain systems that regardless of what kind of menu we serve at this restaurant, this has got to get taken care of. Whether it's the power bill, whether it's the water bill, whether it's paying your taxes, you can't just say, hey, I'm an Italian restaurant also. I don't do none of that other stuff. You can't do that. And that's the feeling I get.
When I see a lot of the appointees, when I see a lot of what's happening in the last week or so in government, in federal government, it's a lot of like, and by the way, we're not going to do this anymore. Hey, CDC, no communication with the outside world. These are all kind of things that are like, this has nothing to do with your politics or the menu that you want to serve.
When I see a lot of the appointees, when I see a lot of what's happening in the last week or so in government, in federal government, it's a lot of like, and by the way, we're not going to do this anymore. Hey, CDC, no communication with the outside world. These are all kind of things that are like, this has nothing to do with your politics or the menu that you want to serve.
This is like bare bones foundational stuff that you're stopping.
This is like bare bones foundational stuff that you're stopping.
Let me, if I can, though, because I have railed for a while now, right, because I can't think of many greater horrors than us being generally okay with somebody walking into a school.
Let me, if I can, though, because I have railed for a while now, right, because I can't think of many greater horrors than us being generally okay with somebody walking into a school.
and shooting kids and slaughtering them and you can't be safe in America that you are putting your kids in the hands of someone else and trusting that the system will return your child alive because you live in America and you're trusting America that way and I've gotten very frustrated when that happens when it immediately after that like the blood has not been mopped up from our schools and it's happening so daily that we're numb to some of this stuff when the shootings happen
and shooting kids and slaughtering them and you can't be safe in America that you are putting your kids in the hands of someone else and trusting that the system will return your child alive because you live in America and you're trusting America that way and I've gotten very frustrated when that happens when it immediately after that like the blood has not been mopped up from our schools and it's happening so daily that we're numb to some of this stuff when the shootings happen
It becomes immediately a political conversation. So I don't actually want to make this horror in the sky and then on the floor about and where is the leadership or, you know what, Biden's to blame for the fires, but Trump's to blame here. I don't actually want to do that. I simply want to rest in the horror of what?
It becomes immediately a political conversation. So I don't actually want to make this horror in the sky and then on the floor about and where is the leadership or, you know what, Biden's to blame for the fires, but Trump's to blame here. I don't actually want to do that. I simply want to rest in the horror of what?
We're presently living in a country where you trust things to work less than you did, whether it's customer service or my house isn't going to catch fire or I can be driving like I do every morning and not see plane parts on the ground because people, 64 people have died.
We're presently living in a country where you trust things to work less than you did, whether it's customer service or my house isn't going to catch fire or I can be driving like I do every morning and not see plane parts on the ground because people, 64 people have died.
But then it's all inherent, right? Like none of these things happen in a vacuum. A plane crash doesn't happen in a vacuum. People's homes don't get destroyed and not have the funding to rebuild in a vacuum. They all happen as a result of decisions that precede them. If you fire 3,000 air traffic controllers and 400 senior officials and the head of the whole thing,
But then it's all inherent, right? Like none of these things happen in a vacuum. A plane crash doesn't happen in a vacuum. People's homes don't get destroyed and not have the funding to rebuild in a vacuum. They all happen as a result of decisions that precede them. If you fire 3,000 air traffic controllers and 400 senior officials and the head of the whole thing,
Regardless of who you, oh, I got a guy. There's no guy that can come in there and replace that much turnover, right? If we did away with the entire shipping container and brought in new people here, there's no way the show would be smooth running the next day. It's just, it's common sense.
Regardless of who you, oh, I got a guy. There's no guy that can come in there and replace that much turnover, right? If we did away with the entire shipping container and brought in new people here, there's no way the show would be smooth running the next day. It's just, it's common sense.
And these are the things, and there's a reason why in government there are positions that are political appointees. We know. The Secretary of Defense, guess what? Every time we have a new president, we got a new Secretary of Defense. We got a new Secretary of the Treasury, et cetera. Those stuff, yes. But then there's...