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The Barnes Brief: Friday, February 14, 2025

Robert Barnes

February 14, 2025

Art of the Day w/ Wisdom of the Day

Schedule

Friday at 9ish pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes: AMA
Saturday Night at 9 pm eastern: Movie TBD
Monday at 9 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes, Law for the People

Book Recommendation: Essential Federalist & Anti-Federalist Papers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110335.The_Essential_Federalist_and_Anti_Federalist_Papers

Art of the Day: As a 12-year-old boy, just a bit removed from the death of my father (who died 12 days from my 12^th birthday), I looked for role models, and I found two that baffled some of my schoolmates. Inspired by two books I carried around with me everywhere, the texts I turned to for inspiration were Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal and Robert Kennedy’s To Seek a Newer World. Now, I helped bring the two movements together in RFK Jr. and Trump, completing an extraordinary journey. I never forgot Trump’s pearl of proverbial wisdom to expect the best but also plan for the worst, a brilliant balancing act of mindset I find useful to this day. I also never forgot the quote on the screen, that we must not just ask why things are but also why not change them? A simple question with a revolutionary effect for both men – dream big, and believe those dreams, and you might be surprised just how much those very actions can make them come true.

Wisdom of the Day: “Look at what can be, and ask – why not?” Robert Kennedy.

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I. THE INTRODUCTION

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A. Art of the Day

A warm cup of coffee, a firm-backed chair, a well-worn wooden table, a soft light overheard, a farmed window overlooking the rainy streets as folks hustle about in the early morning hours softly lit by the gaslight streetlights, as they hustle about their day and you sink into a good book or deep thought, the warm cop waiting.

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