republicans are absent. and the media doesn't spend must have time saying why aren't there any republicans in that room? they were there to get the infrastructure stuff for their own client. they probably have people who give them money, maybe they think they'll get something there. it struck me today, current, i'll give you the final word on this, the difference fundamentally is democrats look at their base and try to figure out how to please all of these different kinds of people. because the democratic base is varied. it's multicultural, multiracial, multireligious. they have to figure out how to make all of those people work together. republicans say to their base. what do you want? oh, okay, you're okay with white nationalism? we can work with that. you don't like the fact that donald trump lost? you want to go ahead and break into the capitol and do an insurrection? okay. we'll figure out how to work with that. you want to maybe not be so anti-neo-naziism, you want to play with neo-naziism. let's see, how can we work with that? you know what? we can work with that. it doesn't matter what their base does. i want to point you to mr. shawn