told you this week at the White House, I met a wonderful woman named Sharon Simmons, a grandmother driving DoorDash to help support her husband's cancer treatment. She's got serious cancer, he's gonna be okay, I think. Sharon delivered McDonald's to the Oval Office, was a little [00:00:15] bit of a, I mean, to be honest, a little tacky. Yeah, it was tacky, not because of her, notably. She did her job there, it was a photo op or whatever. You made it terrible. You made it terrible in the moment. You made it terrible right here. The weird thing of acknowledging [00:00:35] that a senior citizen needs to do gig work to help pay for cancer treatments. And then the last functioning brain cell fires and says, wait, this reflects poorly in our country. I'll be fine. That's a little bit tacky. That's a little bit weird. He's a freaking billionaire. [00:00:53] He could just write a check for whatever the guy's treatment is. It would be a rounding error on a day's interest on World Liberty Financial. He'll be fine, whatever. He's a peasant. Maybe he can go grub hub or something. So yeah, there's a lot of tackiness to go around. But that sort [00:01:10] of messaging that you just saw right there, just constant terrible messaging never on topic. that's concerning some of the people who would like the midterms to not go horribly for the Republicans. And so one Senate Republican told, notice, it's very concerning. This they're [00:01:27] talking about how Trump keeps calling the bill last year, the one big beautiful bill when that's not what people think it is. And it sort of keeps sticking a thumb in their eye when you keep calling it that when the reputation for the bill is so poor at this point. Senator goes on to say, my God, look at the polling numbers. pointing out that the slogan for the [00:01:47] bill, a gear towards working class families is pulling much higher. Basically, that's a continuation of the like, know like what Zorn is doing? Like maybe we should try to do that. And Trump just kept undercutting it by saying that it was like a hoax or whatever. Yeah, they say we've got to be pitch perfect to protect our incumbents and we're not even singing in [00:02:06] the same tongue right now, let alone having people singing from the same hymn books. So like I think I get what he's saying there. I don't understand. The tongue stuff, I don't know, these are very weird people, never forget that. And Senator Mike Rounds points out that [00:02:22] the war is concerning a lot of voters saying it's something that we want to be focused on. Unfortunately, world events have kind of taken over on it, saying that Iran is distracting from the economic messaging that they need to do. And Susie Wiles, who might not even be around that much longer, she brought dozens of top GOP operatives from multiple states [00:02:39] to attend an urgent closed door summit in DC. And a source with knowledge of the plans there said, The meeting comes amid a wider push to quote intensified preparations in a challenging midterm cycle, providing consultants with an opportunity to share data and strategy on how best to support candidates ahead of the midterms. normally, you'd want the president to be on [00:03:00] board to help out actively, but instead they're like, what is he going to do to gas prices next week? What horrible apocalyptic thing is he going to say? You just you can't go a week without him doing something that makes him and the party that he heads look like absolute [00:03:16] ghouls and weirdos, JR. And yeah, so bring your consultants together. The issue is that Donald Trump still exists. What do you think? It's the separation from it. What really stuck out was I believe was Mike Rounds. um And he said, these world events have derailed us. [00:03:32] I wonder how those things got started. It's weird, these randomly the situation in Iran that just kind of exploded in front of us. It's hurting our chances. We have to find a way to recoup our people, get folks back in the limelight, maybe get some positive news [00:03:49] coverage. We're in the same breath. I don't know if he specifically has done this, but I'm sure people have complained about the situations that they find themselves in. We'll go right back to, if anyone asked them about this war in Iran that started out of nowhere, they'd go right back to saying everything that Donald Trump is doing in Iran is perfect. I've never [00:04:05] seen anything done so well in my life. Well, bro, how do you expect? recoup your chances if you keep on falling behind the same thing that got you in this situation in the first place. These are grown ass adults. These are people that have run campaigns way longer and way more efficiently than Donald Trump ever did. But they're falling behind him and everything [00:04:22] that he does. And they still openly, for some reason, why would you even speak to this outlet and say something like that when everyone knows that that doesn't make any sense? Why do you keep doing the thing that you're complaining about? Either stop complaining or stop doing it. Which one is it, man? oh Or how about this, JR? How about this? Rather than like you as [00:04:42] a senator, you're a senator, say, my God, this war stuff's really hurting us. What could we put in an ad? Here's an idea. Do something. You're a senator. You're supposed to be the one controlling this. You guys keep voting down the option. You don't wanna be dragged down [00:05:01] by Donald Trump. Let go of him. You got a white knuckle grip on his nutsack and you're being dragged down, down, down, down where the Titanic goes. Let go. Take control of the war, put limitations on it. Force Donald Trump to come in, give them some tough questioning for Pete [00:05:21] Hegsith or something. There's so much you could actually do. And instead you're like, well, I mean, it's gotten bad. You know how bad it's gotten? I'm kind of whining to a reporter about it. You're a freaking senator. supposed to whine, that's the best I can do. You can vote and [00:05:36] stuff. But it's not even, it's not going to happen. Any other thoughts? No, that's it. I enjoyed your Harry Inton impression. We down to the side. When your company is growing fast, damage control is essential, especially in order fulfillment. Before ShipStation, we'd [00:05:53] spend hours tracking orders and following up with customers. Now our team has cut that time in half. With ShipStation, you can basically let your shipping go on autopilot because it's just that easy now. The problem is too many disconnected tools. ShipStation solves that problem. 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