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The Lincoln Project

We Only Have So Many F*cks To Give

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.78.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 22 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... ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue this critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battlehardt.

0:38.3

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.

0:46.5

Good night and good luck.

0:49.7

Hey folks. I think one of the things we've learned this week is that Donald Trump is going to ping pong around, penball around.

0:58.6

He's like a human Pachinko ball bouncing around in this machine of Washington.

1:03.1

And a lot of Trump's magic has always been that he expects you to follow that ball, no matter how chaotic and crazy and how erratic it seems.

1:14.7

It's because in a lot of ways, Donald Trump is the master of the attention economy, but there is a way to

1:20.0

fight back, and that is the elephant in the room. Look, the big event this week was the speech.

1:30.8

The speech of the joint session of Congress was everything you thought it would be.

1:35.1

And we've talked about already.

1:36.6

Shambolic, idiotic, bizarre, ill-conceived.

1:41.4

Everything that could have possibly been wrong was wrong. And none of it really had to make

1:46.4

sense because all Trump wanted was a few days of explosions. All they wanted was a few days of

1:52.6

attention on him. Why do they want that attention? First off, they want that attention because

1:57.7

Donald Trump has had a really, really terrible 10-day period.

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