Your task will not be an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hearted.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

Good night and good luck.

Hey, everybody, it's Rick.

You know, this week there's a theme in Washington.

I'm not sure if you've all picked up on it, but the theme is Kabuki.

Kabuki is the elephant in the room this week.

What's Kabuki?

Some of you know, it's a stylized Japanese theater and dance performance where

the characters in the play engage in very stylized, ritualistic movements. I might even drop a

clip in here to show you some. It's exaggerated. Like I said, it's stylized. It's over the top.

And I discovered this week in watching the usual shit show unfolding in D.C. that Kabuki was

really what they've got. First off, President Musk had his cabinet meeting. He was very

generous and inviting, as other folks have noted, his vice president,

Donald Trump, to sit in on the cabinet meeting while he put on a show. Isn't it odd, once

again, that we see the same strange power dynamic in that meeting, Trump's sitting, hunched over

a little man, and Elon Musk looking like he owns the place.

Hold up.

Hold up, y'all.

I'm just making sure of something.

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