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I'm Tom Bilyeu, and I'm President for a Day, and let me tell you right now, I'm running on one thing. We are going to balance the budget, and we're gonna get this economy humming. Full stop, period, end of story. All right, the floor is yours.
A rare quiet month, no crises competing for attention. What is your policy statement, executive action? So we are focused on balancing the budget via cutting. Like, we're gonna balance the budget right now today.
So we are gonna make hard choices about what has to go, and what's going to stay. Then, after that, the focus is on growing the economy. Those are gonna be pillars one and two. All right, let's submit this policy and see what happens.
Is this the right assessment? Oh, I like this. The President has made the following policy announcement. We are focused on balancing the budget via cutting.
We are gonna make hard choices about what needs to go, what is going to stay. After that, we'll shift my focus to growing the economy. Treasury cost is low. Estimated expenditures, potential savings of $500 to $1 trillion annually in spending.
That's better than Doge was able to get to. Key risk is political backlash from affected constituencies and interest groups potentially stalling cuts in a divided Congress. Some of the headlines. Bill Yu taxes acts to waste.
Bill Yu outlines plan to balance budget via spending cuts. Bill Yu's austerity push threatens vital social programs. Yes, aggressively. That is 100% true.
So far, so good. Everybody's green. Everybody still likes you. You didn't break anything.
Some of the focus group responses. Texas Tom says from where I sit, finally a president talking sense about cutting the fat out of the bloated Washington budget. Iowa Martha, my view is on this. Finally a president taking sense, talking sense about balancing the budget.
Everybody loves it. Even Miami Maria. Let me see if we can get. I have a feeling we're going to have some people.
College Chloe. Yes. College Chloe is going to hate me. My reaction is ugh.
This is such a cop out. Cutting budgets will need massive investment in climate action, student debt relief, and healthcare. Here we go. Gospel Gloria.
Gospel is crazy. Here's how I see it. This Republican talk of balancing the budget by cutting programs sounds like they're coming for the safety net that keep our folks from falling through the cracks. Brooklyn Jamal says here's what I think.
Another Republican president out here talking about balancing the budget by slashing the programs that actually help people like me. Alright, so all the dissent is still there. So Wall Street, you gain in Wall Street. You gain in Chamber of Commerce.
You gain in small business. Alright, so far nothing too crazy. First policy went over well. Cool.
Let's play February 2025 now. Alright, now let's make a policy. What's our first policy? So we are going to extend the retirement age, but it will extend over the next 15 years.
And then what else would we actually have to do if we wanted to balance the budget? We don't give states federal dollars if they don't have a balanced budget. Yeah, and no state funding for states with unbalanced budgets. Yeah.
Increase the retirement age to 69 over the next 15 years and no state funding for states that do not have a balanced budget. We're going to dramatically reduce regulation on housing to increase housing supply. I don't know what the federal government can do at the local level to outlaw rent control, but whatever the federal government can do to influence rent control, we want to do. For the sake of this, let's say you want to extend the retirement age to 69 over the next 15 years, no state funding for states that do not have a balanced budget, dramatically reduce regulation to promote builders to build more houses, and using the state of our federal powers to move all rent control nationally.
Yep, and one more. I would create economic incentives for people to create jobs in America, especially in manufacturing. Treasury cost is medium. Estimated expenditure approximately $20 to $40 billion annually in manufacturing incentives offset by long-term entitlement savings.
Growth potential positive. So, hey, the demand of growth is growing. Bill used radical overhaul punishes workers, crushes renters. What's the American Herald?
Tom Bill used proposes sweeping reforms on retirement, housing, and manufacturing. Bill used bold boom plan. Ditch rent, ripoffs, build houses, supercharge factories. Okay, that's much better.
Who is the one on the left? The first one I want to know. These guys are liars. They are the fake news, man.
Low IQ. Congressional you've been blocked by Congress. On all of them. As introduced, and then a stripped down version got passed through the House, but then got filibustered in the Senate.
Jesus Christ. This is why I'm not a politician. So basically, nothing has happened so far. You do a great as a politician.
You do a great as a politician. Where are my executive orders? I heard that works. Miami Maria said, my thought on this.
Finally, a president who gets it. Cutting regulations and killing rent controls is exactly what we need. We know we love Brooklyn Jamal. Here's Rylan.
This is straight up trash, man. Forcing folks to grind to 69 while corporations get free pass to jack up rents by killing rent control. What? You guys do understand that when you eliminate rent control, rent gets cheaper, right?
More people build. Now you understand why Trump tweets at 3am in the morning. You said it. Wall Street doesn't like it.
You dropped two points on Wall Street. So you lost. Wait till they hear me trying to abolish the Federal Reserve. They're really gonna hate that.
Right now, the national debt ticked up $0.15 from $1.5 trillion. Didn't even get nothing got done. That's because they're like, oh, yeah, you want to reduce taxes? No problem.
That goes through. But all your other things, that gets blocked. All right, here's an immediate crisis that popped up. There's a mass shooting at Michigan factory, kills 12, injures 20.
A gunman opened fire at Detroit auto parts factory today, killing 12 workers and wounding 20 others. The shooter, a 34-year-old layoff employee, used a legally purchased AR-15 style rifle. This incident marks the deadliest mass shooting of 2025 so far. Local union leaders demanding immediate federal action on workplace safety and reforms.
What is your response? Well, first of all, obviously, I'm completely devastated that somebody was able to take this many lives. I mean, it's absolutely tragic. There's gonna be plenty of people talking about the gun control aspect, which I'm gonna not touch at all.
But the thing that I would focus people on is this is almost certainly, I mean, look, this guy could be mentally ill. There's no doubt about that. So if I had more information, that might change my assessment. But if this person isn't mentally ill, my immediate assumption is that this is an economic problem, that you have somebody that is just overwhelmed, stressed to the gills because they are being hollowed out by inflation and money printing.
So I would try to get everybody to focus on, listen, if you make it impossible for people to make ends meet and they have nothing left to lose, then they're gonna start doing crazy stuff like this. And if you think that just by taking guns away, you're gonna stop the violence, you're not. As Europe is learning the hard way, you'll just hack somebody to death with machetes. So rather than try to lower the body count, what I would be focused on is making sure that people don't have the impulse to walk in and shoot something up.
It's gonna be a very complex issue, everything from mental illness, SSRIs, on through the economic side of this. I would need more information to actually tell you what you need to do to solve this problem. If I were legitimately president, the thing that people would absolutely get bored to death of is this is a deterministic universe. There is cause and effect.
We need to identify in this particular instance what actually happened. And so if this is mental illness, then you have that conversation. If this is a drug thing, whether like hard drugs or SSRIs, you have that conversation. If this is economic because this is somebody who was struggling and he went to this workplace because he's been completely iced out and is basically, this is a death of despair by cop, then you have to look at that.
And so the one thing that my constituents can count on is no matter what the punchline is, I care only about cause and effect. The odds of me being anything other than a one-term president are effectively zero. And so in the one term that I have, I'm just gonna try to say, this is where we're going. This is the cause and effect to get there.
And so we're gonna do those things. And whatever that means, whoever that pisses off, it Here, that's what I'm talking about. Now, College Chloe, if we're on the same page with that, I respect it. Brooklyn Jamal is at 85%.
You even told him, man. Come on now. See, this is where if people really understand what's going on, I think what that tells us is people like politicians being held accountable. There is an element of like anything I do that somebody reads is like, oh, somebody's not being held accountable.
They're going to hate anything I do where they're like, yeah, yeah, like that person's being held accountable. I think that's a big part of why the tax thing is so enticing to people is they feel like, yes, they're being penalized for their greedy ways. And so get that tax money. So it's interesting.
Accountability, I think, might be a big trigger for getting everybody on the same page. So it becomes a good question of what are other things that we could do where all of us politicians are being held accountable, like no insider trading. Let's see what that looks like. Oh, another one.
Yeah. So everybody likes to hold Congress accountable. Listen, these are good things. What are other things?
Oh, term limits, term limits, eight years for Congress, 12 for Senate. Do we want to do 12 for Senate? Yeah, why not? We'll be nice and chill.
Let's go. Let's go. OK, man, I'm getting the country behind me here. There it is.
OK. What else would be good that everyone would love? How do we fix affordable housing? Let's attack housing.
Well, so you've got to reduce regulations so they're not going to feel like anybody's being held accountable. That's the problem. So deregulate the housing market to stimulate growth. If you say it like that, then people are going to it's going to split.
Yeah. So we'll take it. It's still green. OK.
Still green. That one's very important. What can we do on anti-fraud, law and order, tight borders? Like these are all.
Oh, here's one that's really going to be divisive, but is nonetheless, I think, important. We want an H1B visa program that is conservative in terms of total numbers, but gives business the ability to, like, grab the best and the brightest from all over the world. I expect this one to be split. Oh, yeah.
The funny thing I was going to say that that one's like a 50 50. In Middle America hates it. Yes. The coastal cities are more favorable.
Yes, of course, because they're the ones that want to do the hiring. So that one's very important. What else? Immigration policy?
Yes. Well, so generalized immigration policy would be strict borders. I don't know how else to say that. Zero illegal immigrants and sensible broad immigration policy.
It's a little vague, but we'll see. I was like the AIs gonna be like, OK, not bad. Not bad. Green again.
Yeah. Now our map is not cumulative, though, right? This is just per policy. Yeah, yeah.
Per policy. We're doing each individual policy. OK. I mean, that gives you an idea of the kind of things that I'd be doing.
I'm really trying to look at, OK, you've got a broad basket of Americans and ultimately everybody's happy when the economy is booming. And I think that there are really basic things that operate in my brain that lead to my decision making. There's a certain amount of regulation that you need to make sure that workers aren't being taken advantage of, which we know from the early 1900s and every time before that they will get taken advantage of if you don't have protections. So you want to make sure that you have those.
But then what ends up happening is those regulations just grow and grow, grow, grow, grow, and they begin to choke out business. It actually ends up being bad for the tax base because you're not able to grow at the level that you want to grow. If your mental model is every regulation is me, the individual worker being fought for, you're not going to like it. But the reality is what I think history shows just unequivocally is that regulatory capture is always about the corporations and it's never about the individual.
And so people have come to confuse government stepping in and regulating with protecting me. But the reality is I think we can all agree there's more regulations now than there has ever been. And let's say prior to Trump, there's more regulations than there's ever been. And the economy is an absolute disaster.
So all of those regulations have not helped us. And so if you look at the way that the economic system works is people go to the government and as a business, they've got the money to lobby and they're going to lobby for things that are in their favor. And so once you realize, oh, the people that are going getting people's ear or getting them, they're the ones drafting the legislation. So you've got the companies drafting the legislation, begging for the industry to be regulated.
And the reason that they will ask for the industry to be regulated or the specific way in which they will ask the industry to be regulated will be beneficial to them and will ice out other people. That is how it always works. If you look at housing, you'll see it clear as day. You get places like Houston that have just deregulated the life out of it and houses are they're not not an asset, but they're not an asset that just goes up.
Rent stay relatively flat. Home prices stay relatively flat. That's incredible. That's what people should want.
Now, I understand if you have a house, you want it to go up, up, up, up, up. But it creates the distortion that we're seeing now where it's like if you got in, then you're winning, you're laughing, you're loving life. If you didn't get in, it gets farther out of reach, farther out of reach, farther out of reach. It's happening right now.
And you don't have to look very far in the past to see people get violent. If you ice them out of the economic system, they will eventually turn violent. And even before they turn violent, they start like living lives of misery. You get deaths of despair, start skyrocketing.
So that one to me is just it's grotesque that people don't look at that and say, oh, we can't do this. I understand how hard life is. And so I don't want to make this sound easy. But if everybody thinks of life in terms of policy rather than what helps me, then it's like, OK, cool.
Yeah, I'm willing to compete in the system and I'm looking for everybody else to compete. But when you start trying to do things that give you an edge, like they're specific to your circumstance, that's where I'm like, it's evil. And I don't think everybody does it to be evil. I think most people do it because they don't understand it.
Getting people to think, how do you make the system work when it doesn't know who's going to be the person in the system? That's the right way to approach it. Tom, you made a mediocre president. How dare you?
Everybody hates me. Maria Miami loves you. America loves me. America loves me.
Green, green, green, green. Let the record reflect. Once you understand what people want, people want things that are going to work and that hold people accountable. It's the accountability part that's really interesting.
There is such a desire to see people punished right now that if you can come up with a policy that is both good for the American public or perceived as good for the American public. I actually only put other than the flowers thing. I actually only put four things that I actually think would be useful. But the ones where we really got it was where somebody got jabbed a little bit, whether it's China getting their sanctions or whether it's the Congress and Senate being held accountable for their budget proposals.
They want to know, like, oh, yeah, yeah, like this guy, he's got an eye on people. Give us a 30 second State of the Union address to your constituents. How would you talk to your voting base now that you had it, you stepped in the chair for a second. You held the nuclear football.
How do you feel about being the president? Is there any nuance that added to you? Any like closing thoughts, stuff like that. To my fellow Americans, it was an absolute honor to serve you.
I know that I am going to be a one term president not doing things that are based on what's popular. But man, we really can do a lot together if we can stay focused on cause and effect and get this done. So I appreciate all your support on all my green initiatives. That sounded like a like energy thing.
I appreciate all your support on addition. Wow. I appreciate all your support on the different initiatives that I put forward and I look forward to seeing what is in store for all of us in the future. It is bright days ahead.
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And we've been eroding capitalism here in the West. It's something you and I argue about a lot. But I think we're about to have to re-answer that question. And I think the consequences are dire.
And it is something I just really can't get people to hear me. And you're such a good barometer for me. You're smart. You're super well-meaning.
You just want the right answer. You have a child you love the most. And it's like, I know you just want what's good for her. But if you haven't read those three books to understand how wrong things go with humans, and the one notion that I think people really miss is to get equal outcomes, you have to do it by force.
And those three books show three real examples in the 20th century. Man, this is not a long time ago. Mao was alive when I was alive. For people to understand those three examples of how evil you have to be to get people to relinquish what they have fought to earn, even if it starts in a good place, it ends up with murder.
And those three books, because I think people believe I'm being hyperbolic. Keep in mind, I didn't start with this worldview. I maybe more than most. I used to get made fun of by my business partners for being Pollyanna.
And reading those books and many, many more about the atrocities of the 20th century, about economics, quite frankly, I really came to understand how bloody and sinister communism is. We've been able to communicate how evil Nazism is, but we were not able to get that same message across about communism. And so those three books really paint a terrifying picture from the inside of what it was like to live through those systems. Okay, so we have the first one, Extreme Ownership.
It's important for the individual to know that you can change the decisions and you can change your life based on those decisions. Yes, life is not random. It's a deterministic universe. You're in control of your actions.
You can change your outcomes. Then the next three, Mao, Gulag, and Red Famine. This is what happens when the human race breaks bad. That's a very shorthanded way.
The economic system you choose will have massive consequences. And if we go down the socialist communist route, it is the bloodiest path imaginable. And these are three examples of that. Yes, to get people on the inside of that so they understand the massive consequences.
And if nothing else, to understand the brutality required to get people to willingly give up what they have fought to earn. Okay, and then to round us out now with Machiavelli and the Defenders of Freedom. So we're in the middle of an era where the way the world works is becoming apparent to us. And it's going to have a deranging effect.
The Machiavelli was a real person in Italy. He writes this book called The Prince. The Prince was meant to teach basically world affairs to the rulers of Italy. And it's this no holds barred.
It was like literally the 48 laws of power by Robert Green are based largely on The Prince. And so he was just trying to lay out the first book on politics. Like how it actually works, not how we wish it worked, or the veneer of civility, but underneath the power games, the manipulation, the fact that we're always going to be run by an elite group of people, which in the book he refers to as the iron law of oligarchy. And so in a world where social media is going to make everything hyper visible, the way that it works, the way that politicians lie, all the sex scandals, all of the secret cabals that really do gather behind the scenes to create things like a central bank.
And that central bank sounds lovely, but it's absolutely sinister and just manipulative of the people. Things like Epstein, like it's just all going to come out and we're going to look at that and it's really going to be deranging. And if we don't have somebody that can help us make sense of the way that humans interact as a political animal, we won't have a way to anchor and understand the moment. And so conspiracy theories will reign.
People are going to run in a thousand different directions. Narratives are going to split into these tiny little fragments and we're not going to have any shared understanding of what the world is. And so Machiavelli and the Defenders of Freedom, it was really James Burnham saying, okay, let's take a really hard look at this thing because people are trying to dismiss Machiavelli by saying he was evil or by saying that he was promoting the way that man is as a political animal, which is really grotesque. He wasn't trying to say this is good and as it should be.
He's simply saying it is. This is how the human mind works. And when you take all these books together, it is the most raw look at what the human animal actually is. And I think if we don't have that understanding, we will be deranged by algorithms because the algorithm feeds into our emotions.
We won't share a narrative about what is true and how people really are with each other. We won't be able to point at where we want to end up. We'll just get lost in the sauce of like the lies, the manipulation and all of that. And so when you take all these books together, you've got a really hard look at how much you can own your own decisions and how powerful it is to see yourself as a structure of power.
You've got a really brutal look at the fact this is a line from the Gulag Archipelago, which most people know the line, but they won't know where it came from, which is the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And that was a guy who was locked into the Russian gulag system, who knew that there were stories like there was one guy that just could not break him. And so they brought in his 16 year old daughter and raped her in front of him to finally break him. And so he's living through that system.
And he comes out and says, you would do well to remember that you would probably be one of the guards, not one of the people that, you know, tries to maintain your integrity. The prisoners in the system massively outnumber the guards, but they never tried to overwhelm them because they used other prisoners by giving them perks. They got them to hold down everybody else. And so he realized it is far better for me to look at myself as weak and likely to break and not as some hero.
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A few weeks ago, Drew and I talked about the political compass on the live, and now I'm going to take the political compass test and see where I end up. The political compass test was first developed by a British news outlet all the way back in 2001 with the goal of expanding how we discuss political ideology. The test was designed to implement two separate axes, one for economic ideology and the other for social ideology. The aim of this was to begin dissecting the politics of any individual utilizing a more in-depth system rather than the simple left-right spectrum we all colloquially understand.
Today, we are putting Tom through the test to find out where he really stands. First question, if economic globalization is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of transnational corporations. Why is that the dichotomy? That's a weird split.
If economic globalism is inevitable, it's not, it should primarily serve humanity rather than, well, yes, strongly agree. You definitely want to serve humanity, but let me tell you, bro, that is going to get weird and how you define that It means that delay progress in a democratic political system. Strongly aggressively disagree. Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried.
Get out of here. Strongly disagree. The death penalty should be an option for the most serious crimes. Strongly agree.
In a civilized society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded. One must always have? No, strongly disagree. Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.
Strongly disagree. In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation. Ooh, interesting. More important than rehabilitation?
If I knew that they could be rehabilitated, I would be much more into the rehabilitation. Make it a policy. Let's make it a policy, Drew. Very well said.
Very well said. I don't think we know how to rehabilitate, so I'm going to go with punishment should be more important. I'll go with agree, but not strongly. Okay.
It is a time, it's a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals. Agree. The business person and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist. I feel like these are both of your identities.
I know. They are both very meaningful, but yeah, I'll agree that if you could have a bunch of artists but nobody doing business, you have a problem. If you have a bunch of business people with no writers and artists, it's sad. It's a bad day, but you can still have a functioning economy.
Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers. God, no, strongly disagree. But I highly advise, dear mothers, I highly advise you to prioritize your children as much as you can. That will be very good for them.
But same for dads, by the way. So this is why, yeah, dear parents, well said, Drew. This is exactly why I didn't have kids because I knew that I would prioritize my career way too much. So yeah, that's not a uniquely mom thing.
If you're going to have kids, while I feel you're doing all of us a great service, and so I feel terrible asking a little bit more of you. And if you're going to do it, do it well. That would be my advice. Almost all politicians promise economic growth, but we should heed the warnings of climate science that growth is detrimental to our efforts to curb global warming.
I mean, yes, but I'm gonna go with this. Wait, I'll say agree, but certainly not strongly agree. I feel I need a neutral one on this one. Yeah, this is interesting.
I thought you were going to disagree. Well, here's the thing. You do need to listen. Climate change is real, but you don't need to act like a European psychopath where it's like no matter what, you just more green, more green, even if it's economically disadvantageous.
That's stupid. However, pretending like Beijing could just be Beijing like they were, you know, 15, 20 years ago where it was like breathing one day cigarette your entire life. That's also an atrocity. So, yeah, I'll leave it there.
This one needs a neutral button. This is the I say this is the person that surprised me like your answer, but having that like a mutual button, I guess where it breaks. Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity. Yes, the iron law of oligarchy.
So I'll agree, but not strongly. Astrology accurately explains many things. Strongly disagree. You cannot be moral without being religious.
Strongly disagree. Charity is better than Social Security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged. Yeah, I'll go with agree, but not strongly. There's nuance.
But the reason that I say agree is that charity tends to be more at the local level. They're more likely to know the person and whether they actually need it or not. A big part of the problem with social systems is that it becomes anonymous. The bureaucracy then wants its own survival.
And so you fund and fund and fund homelessness only to get more homelessness because that organization needs the more homeless people to grow. And so it ends up not solving the problem. But again, going back to what I was saying earlier, having no social safety net is brutal. There are times where people are going to have a legitimate need.
And we, as people trying to build an awesome society, would do well to catch them. But you do need means testing. Some people are naturally unlucky. I mean, sure, in a random universe, but I'm gonna say strongly disagree because I don't think while luck is a real thing, it's not like, ah, that person is chronically unlucky.
It's not like that. It is important that my child's school instills religious values. Strongly disagree. Sex outside of marriage is usually immoral.
Strongly disagree. A same-sex couple in a stable, loving relationship should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption. Strongly agree. Pornography depicting consenting adults should be legal for the adult population.
Strongly agree. What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state. Strongly agree. No one can feel naturally homosexual.
The reports do not indicate that that is true. Strongly disagree. These days, openness about sex has gone too far. I agree.
Ooh, yeah. That's another thing. I don't think it should be curbed. Like, I don't think the government should get involved.
But if you want to know if I think that Bonnie Blue is on the right track, I do not. I think that is gonna be a bad day for her. Now, let's see where you stand. So I'm super far from authoritarian.
That is absolutely true. And I am ever so slightly to the right. This is pretty accurate for me. Center-right?
Yeah. But also, just to be very clear, I would like the record to reflect how far away from authoritarian I am. On the economic, we have the usual suspects. AOC's over here.
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, Zora Mamdani. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Those guys are the most authoritarian and how dare you? This is on the world map, so, you know, world authoritarianism is different than U.S.
Anybody who's a democratic socialist is ultra authoritarian. But when you look up here, there's actual dictators. Kim Jong Un, super left, super authoritarian. Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin.
I thought those guys don't like max that shit out. And then, of course, on the authoritarian right, we have Donald Trump, JD Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu, Victor Orban, who just got voted out, Marine Le Pen. Yeah, this is interesting. Well, to me, that feels very on point.
There were some of the questions that I was pushed in one direction or the other that didn't feel quite right. But overall, the rating of where they put me, I think, feels pretty real. I am, from a temperament perspective, ever so slightly right in terms of, like, classic, old-school evolution type personal responsibility versus communal, if you will. Was there any questions that keeping you up at night, the ones that stuck out to you, that you're still like...
The honest answer is there were a lot of them where you could really get nitpicky about what they mean by a given word. Ones that, like, stood out and I really felt uncomfortable with my answer. It's nothing that, like, sticks in my craw, if you will. Finding out exactly where you stand on something like that, I think, is incredibly useful.
Know thyself is the first rule. And I think so often people mistake the way that they think for being objectively right. And I have learned very aggressively in my marriage that it is not that I'm right. It's just that there are things that I want to do my way and that I reduce dramatically the friction in my life once I realized, oh, I have a way that I like to do things.
It is not objectively right. And if you can learn to work with other people who are also trying to do things their way isn't objectively right, but it is their way. And if you can come together with that and find out what that compromise is where you guys can actually share values, then we can get some momentum moving forward. Right now, everybody is so hell-bent to be on a team that if somebody doesn't end up in your quadrant, you want to throw feces.
And so be very careful about focusing on the things that make you different and really, really try to find a way to come together in the middle. That is when the world has always been at its best, is when we're choosing between two sides that are relatively close to each other in the middle. Let's talk about a pattern that is guaranteed to be killing your progress. You know what you need to do.
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