tonight just emerged in a totally different place. and i think this is so interesting. we rarely get rarely get real candid out loud thoughts about the politics of a moment. that s not what we usually get from a politician. did he say something that s a fact jack or something you could laugh or whatever but that s the truth he s just saying like i don t want to trip up my economic agenda by injecting an effort right now to get rid of the filibuster. that is going to be the next project. i need all those senators right now. he just put it out plainly to people in his base i think most importantry to hear why he hasn t made getting rid of the filibuster on voting rights a higher priority. it s because he needs those votes on the economic package. usually people say how does it play in pioria. the question is how does this play in philadelphia, chicago,
republicans? that s the biggest question around congress right now, right? there s members of congress that don t have faith being around their colleagues after january 6th. one member of congress moved their office away from a republican because they didn t feel safe. how do you work with people like that? from there are little pack pockets of moderates. you have the police reform group. one republican and one democrat on the senate side. little things are happening. i m not sure how you get back together. the republican party right now is not focusing, she just said, on policy, at all. not just bowing to the feet of trump. but also, and more importantry, spreading conspiracy theories and obstructing. and there isn t a sense they want to get things done.
wish lists for the holiday, this is the time to talk to your families to talk to people who maybe don t understand the very weird bland word net neutrality. what does that mean? wells in a good time to hold teach-ins around the thanksgiving table with people. most importantry i think it s important to affirm it s not a political this is not a bipartisan issue. this is let me say that more clearly. this is not a republican versus democrat issue. this is an issue of inclusion. so many of the challenges we are dealing with right now are we didn t care about health care policy until they started mucking with the health care. we didn t care much about changing taxes until everybody started getting really worried that that might be abruptly changing in a way that harms a lot of people. it s time to get really worried about the internet. and to inform yourself and to inform people around you. but when the only people in the