high-fiving each over. [laughter] i guess i would say usually a politician being quieted in the middle of indictedded in the middle of a campaign, not the best strategy. lucy, as a former republican, hasn t the country been bitterly divided since donald trump came down the escalator in 2015, and are the media plague it up, perhaps playing it up perhaps for if ratings? of course, they re stoking the divisiveness. there s no question. and the fact that, you know, we ve seen in the trump era just the further siloing of where americans get their news, right? people could be next door neighbors and living in completely different environments and realities, right? we ve lost as a country the sense of a common set of facts, right? that said, i think that in this particular case you can hold in your mind, i just want to sort of take issue with clay s characterization that this is setting a precedent. you can hold in your mind that this is both discome discomfit discomfiting to the thin