I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

to the teeth and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Hey Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the

Michael Steel Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. So you guys at Lincoln Project on

on just looking at again at this narrative and what's going to potentially animate and keep

the voters engaged in this cycle. Put out a new ad, I guess it was, it came out on the sixth of May.

Going after billionaires which was an interesting approach, let's take a quick listen to some of that.

So what is that, what does that say for you right now? Where do you go with that narrative?

So it's a great question. Like here at first and foremost, we're not a policy organization,

right? We're a political organization. And so we say what is it, what is it that we need to win

an election, right? Rick Scott, the chairman of National Republican Senatorial Committee,

put out this 11 point plan for America, which I'm sure you can imagine, Michael, being in the

conference room where some nerd from the Heritage Foundation was pitching him on this.

And but the undercurrent of the, you know, everyone's skin in the game, everyone pays their fair share

is those people aren't paying their taxes, right? Those people aren't. The problem is that they're

not very good at it. They're not very good at what they did. So, you know, he goes on Fox News with

John Roberts, right? Fox News is a home game for these assholes, pardon my French. And John Roberts

goes, so you're going to raise taxes on half the country and get rid of Social Security and Medicare.

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