 So I want to play a snippet of a clip from a recent event that AOC attended, and what she is going to talk about is this notion of government handouts. It is one of these talking points that gets under my skin because when we talk about Medicare for All, tuition-free public college and universities, student debt cancellation, raising the minimum wage, what's the response from not just right-wingers, but also, you know, people in the center, older generations? People just want free things, and that irritates me so much because that is you misconstruing what the function of government is. We supposedly live in a democracy, technically a representative of a republic, but nonetheless it is in that category of democracies, gotta be specific because people will comment if I don't clarify, but nonetheless I digress. We live in a democracy and therefore government is owned by us and run by us. We elect public officials and they answer to us theoretically, right? We're trying to iron that out, fix it a little bit, recapture democracy, but you know, theoretically speaking, we are the ones who are in control. Democracy is government by and for the people. So to suggest that us wanting a return on the tax dollars that we give to government every single year that are taken out of our paychecks before we even see them, that is not something that is free. That's not something that you should qualify as a handout. It's a hand to back because if we give you the tax dollars, you should deliver, give us something in return for that. That's why we live in a society to begin with, right? So AOC addressed this and this was short but sweet and she basically said everything I wanted to say, but in a way more concise manner. Take a look. I'm tired of this idea that Medicare for all, tuition for public colleges are some hand out from somebody else. Nobody else is giving us a damn thing. We feel good on our own. We fund it. We establish it. We fight for it. We create it. And we know we should be able to take it away from us as they have to. So that's that on that. So that was so incredible. I've got to read the transcript of that. Not to be redundant, but she said, nobody else is giving us a damn thing. We built this on our own. We funded it. We established it. We fight for it. We made it. And nobody should be able to take it away from us. That is the mentality that I really, really want people to adopt going forward because by asking the government to be the sole insurer when it comes to healthcare, for example, you're not asking for free healthcare. You're asking for our tax dollars, your tax dollars to benefit you because like it or not, our healthcare is already going or our tax dollars rather, it's already going into this healthcare system. But instead of actually going directly to us, it's helping to prop up and subsidize these for profit insurance plans that don't actually help us, you know, we're helping to prop up the system that is fundamentally broken and wasting money in the process. So by us having, you know, a single pair of system as an example, there's many, but as the example I want to use, that isn't us saying, give me free stuff. That's us saying, give me the money back in, you know, the, in the form of some type of public good. Right. I mean, nothing is free in this country. There's no such thing as a handout. We all pay into our system, our government. We pay for these roads. We pay for public parks using them and enjoying them. This is not something that is free or is a handout. It's ours. We own it. We own it. Now, the problem is that in this country, whenever we ask for something from government such as healthcare or education, you know, we are chastised by older generations and centrists and Republicans for wanting freebies. But when the rich want tax cuts, when the military industrial complex wants contracts from the government and, you know, increased defense spending, that's not a handout. That's, you know, that's not free stuff. That's just what we are supposed to do. So our priorities are misaligned and we have to get this through our heads that asking the government to provide you with basic necessities, housing, education, healthcare, that's not asking for free stuff. That's saying, hey, make me feel better about all of the tax dollars I'm giving you. If you go to the store and they hand you an Xbox after you give them $200 or $300, that's not a handout. You're paying for it. So I mean, the same is true for healthcare, right? Now on top of that, on top of just moving away from this idea that we are welfare queens or we're asking for free stuff or handouts, we also need to acknowledge that politicians are subordinate to us. They answer to us. They're accountable to us. And if we don't approve of the job that they are doing, then like a boss, we can reprimand them either by voting them out or showing up to town halls and confronting them about their performance. And I think people need to acknowledge that they need to be that asshole boss who is never satisfied no matter how much your employee tries to, you know, appease you. You're just never satisfied. You're always pushing them to do better. That's the mentality that we need to adopt when it comes to politicians because so many of them, even though there's some good ones, they aren't doing an adequate job. It's why Congress's approval rating is incredibly low and abysmal. So for us to ask to be represented, to ask for our tax dollars to benefit us, for anyone to suggest that that is us wanting a handout or free stuff is idiotic. And AOC, you know, pretty much dispels that notion in a really concise and I think brilliant way.