sides but also them. but i think that -- i really do think that's true. and i want to give one example that was really sort of front of mind today of one side sort of being worse, being less tethered to reality, and that was because today was jobs day. right? it's a big deal in the business press and even in the media generally because it's the day the bureau of labor statistics releases all the job stats for the previous month. and it was a good jobs number today. there was 266,000 new jobs. that beat expectations by quite a bit. the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%. that's a 50-year low. it's good that a lot of people are working. [ applause ] exactly. yes. it's good people are working. we're happy about that. now, there are a lot of places i think if you look into the data, if you sort of sift through it that show the economy is actually a lot weaker for working people and huge swaths of americans than that number suggests. but the data is the data. right? the top line numbers were good today. and after the job numbers came