We Only Have So Many F*cks To Give
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
As Rick points out this week, we are operating in an Attention Economy. Let's stop being junkies and focus on what matters long-term for our nation. From Marco Rubio's small D moment on the couch to Trump's dinner theatre speech, we need to remain focused on what we CAN do while this sh*tshow continues...
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:04.4 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battlehardt. |
| 0:08.2 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:11.9 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:16.5 | Good night and good luck. |
| 0:19.6 | Hey folks. |
| 0:20.8 | I think one of the things we've learned this week is that Donald Trump is going to ping pong around, penball around. |
| 0:28.5 | He's like a human Pachinko ball bouncing around in this machine of Washington. |
| 0:33.0 | And a lot of Trump's magic has always been that he expects you to follow that ball, |
| 0:39.7 | no matter how chaotic and crazy and how erratic it seems. |
| 0:44.7 | It's because in a lot of ways, Donald Trump is the master of the attention economy, |
| 0:49.1 | but there is a way to fight back, and that is the elephant in the room. |
| 0:56.8 | Look, the big event this week was the speech. |
| 1:00.8 | The speech of the joining session of Congress was everything you thought it would be. |
| 1:05.1 | And we've talked about already. Shambolic, idiotic, bizarre, ill-conceived. |
| 1:11.3 | Everything that could have possibly been wrong was wrong. |
| 1:14.7 | And none of it really had to make sense because all Trump wanted was a few days of explosions. |
| 1:20.5 | All they wanted was a few days of attention on him. |
| 1:24.3 | Why do they want that attention? |
| 1:26.0 | First off, they want that attention because Donald Trump |
| 1:28.2 | has had a really, really terrible 10-day period. Look, Donald Trump really needed to change the |
| 1:33.2 | subject from two of the stupidest possible things that could have happened. The first really, |
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