anyways. paul ryan did the same exact thick. the trigger thing you mentioned is the perfect example of this. it's a threat. it's meant to be so distasteful as to force congress to compromise because if they don't compromise, defense will be arbitrarily cut at the $600 billion number. if you look at that threat and if they have to implement it, guess who has to decide the details of this? congress. not even this congress, a future congress. now let me really blow your mind, that $600 billion cut is based off a fake number, cbo baseline, it's a projection of defense spending that no one ever thought was real. you could cut billions from the defense budget and the defense budget could still keep rising. it's comparing fake numbers against fake numbers so everybody can claim to cut the deficit and budget. >> having a pageant that's about a play that is based on history in order to talk about what's going on in current events. it's a designed to get our minds