What I'm really focused on is how do I not perpetuate this?

How do I not tweet about it in a way that creates expectations and that just

continues this cycle? Because I'm honestly concerned that the tiny percentage of the

American public that's really, really politically engaged has lost the end in service of the means.

The means and who gave what speech and made what statement has become much more important to them

than outcomes.

This is Sarah and Beth, you're listening to Pantsuit Politics, the home of Grace-filled

political conversations.

Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining us for another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

Today we are going to continue the conversation that we began on Tuesday's episode around

what's happening in Afghanistan. Then we are going to talk about how we take in news that is

really about tactics and process. So that might sound a little dull, but many of you have asked

us about what we think about the Texas Democrat to left the state to deny a quorum and all of the

like breathless coverage over infrastructure negotiations. We just have a lot of tactical process

oriented stories right now and we thought it would be good to reflect on how to read those.

I don't know what we're talking about outside of politics there is going to surprise me.

So hang around with me and we'll all find that out together. Before we get into all of that,

we want to thank you so much for the way that you have engaged with our last couple of episodes.

We specifically seeing many of you sharing them with friends and family on social media,

but in real life too we get emails where you tell us that you sent an episode to a friend and

had great conversations. Those recommendations mean the world to us and we know the discussions

that we have here together in community are better when more people are here representing

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