Pay-to-play, doing your homie a solid, the stowaway?

No, I'm not talking about favors in the congressional dining room.

I'm talking about Visa scams coming up on the broadcast Patreon.

I feel like there's like a ghetto version of the commas sutra that has all those listed in like with like pictures and diagrams.

Is there?

If not, someone needs to come up with it.

With the Visa scams or the congressional dining room favors?

No, it's like the DC commas sutra and they have the moves, the stowaway and the pay-to-play.

The DC commas sutra is all about how lobbyists get what they need.

Pay-to-play is actually a way of doing bills in Congress.

I hate to break it to you, but lobbyists don't always get what they want.

What?

No, not always.

There's a perception that lobbyists are more powerful than they are and yeah, it's not always true.

Yeah, I think that, you know, I don't know, that might be a very DC specific worry.

The way influence works in Washington is very poorly understood.

When you have politicians and groups who are talking about the interest groups, blah, blah, blah, they're usually all red herring.

It's not where the real power is wielded and the sophisticated people know how to sophisticated lobbyists know where the real power is and how do we use it that way?

Gotcha.

Oh, I'm sorry, I just woke up.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, I fell asleep there for a minute.

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