WEBVTT - Rick Wilson & Michael Waldman 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.720 today's best minds and Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy Steve 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.080 Woodcoff can't name a single concession that Russia will make 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.119 in the quote unquote peace deal house shotging, we have 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.640 such a great show for you today the Lincoln Projects. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.200 Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Elon's profoundly dumb email 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.520 to federal workers. Then we will talk to the Brennan 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:37.080 Centers Michael Waldman about how they have been countering Trump's 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:38.919 war on the judges. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.920 But first the news Smiley, I have to say I 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.320 knew who main governor Jenet Mills was. I didn't know 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.400 much about her game, but I liked her game this week. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:54.200 Yeah, you know, Maine has some really interesting politicians. I'm 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.080 thinking about Angus King, who was a Republican became an independent. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.160 There's just a lot of super stuff here. Here's Janet Mills. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:07.200 She's at a meal with Trump with the governors, and 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.119 Trump asks if she's at the event, and she says yes, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.759 and he says, in the typical trumpy fashion, you better 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.880 do it because you're not going to get any federal 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.040 funding at all if you don't. Now, FYI, this is 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.399 really now how it's not supposed to work. Right, There's 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.640 federalism exists for a reason, right, Trump says to Mills, 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.400 who replied that she would follow state and federal laws. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.040 By the way, we want our. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.399 Lawmakers to follow the law, okay, Like that is the 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.319 correct answer, right, Like we should want all of our 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.319 politicians to follow the law. If you are a politician, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.759 you are doing something that is not following the law, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.039 you should not be holding office. She also told the 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.480 President see you in court, which I think is really like. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.520 It was a pretty ball or move. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.880 Especially you're surrounded by other governors, you are in the 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.160 White House, or you're in you know, he is intimidating guy, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.240 and she's you know, just this sort of older woman. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.280 And by the way, I would like to point out 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.919 it does seem to me that older women are doing 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.440 a lot more standing up to Trump than people like say, oh, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.440 I don't know, Jeff Bezos or you know they're right, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.000 I mean, or Zuckerberg. These are people who are not 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.519 you know, who have billions of dollars and refuse to 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.440 stand up to Trump. Miles also released a statement vowing 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.519 if the President attempts to unilaterally deprive main school children 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.120 of the benefit of federal funding, my administration in the 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.760 Attorney General will take all appropriate and necessary legal option 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.720 to restore that funding. And by the way, I just 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.040 want to point out, like anyone who listens to this 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.280 podcast knows that we've had a lot of Democratic attorneys 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.040 generals and that they have been working their asses off 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.679 to prepare the battle in court that will protect federalism hopefully, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.440 And so I just want to say, like, all of 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.400 this is happening because these Democratic attorneys general did what 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.960 they were supposed to be doing, prepare for Trump is 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.240 I'm really just super impressed that they had the war 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.120 withal to get on this immediately, and also good for 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:10.080 her for standing up. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.160 Hell yeah, ma, let's break a little news here. You 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.200 and I are going to be putting up three YouTube 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.480 videos every week that are different programming than what you 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.280 hear on Fast Politics, because we're putting our foot into 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.799 the world of YouTube and it's very good. We've done 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.080 some tests so far they are amazing. You're killing it. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.679 But while I was studying for what we're going to 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.440 do over the weekend. I have a tool called video iq. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.440 It tells me how many views a channel gets in 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.400 a month. And something I noticed is Bernie Sanders and 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.840 Chris Murphy each have singular videos that are more popular 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.600 than the entire month of videos from the rest of 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.040 the Democrats entire channels in the Senate. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.080 I just want to say two things here about us 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.480 going to YouTube. One is that Jesse is actually a 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.360 big YouTube celebrity already for music, so I will be 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.000 cloud chasing him and two, I know and also embarrassing 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:08.000 him on this podcast. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:08.840 That's what I do. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.920 But the other thing is that I think it's really 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:16.800 important to realize that there are some really effective messengers. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.760 And it was a really good piece in The Times 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.880 today about Murphy. Bernie too has been doing these huge 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.480 town halls, and I think what's important about these two 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.880 men is that they prove my theory that this is 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.240 not actually an ideological issue, it's a messaging issue. So 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.880 Bernie is very lefty, Murphy is very centrist. They are 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.800 not the same, they do not represent the same wing 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.960 of the party, but they are both breaking through and 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.640 that's because they are very good communicators and they are 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.760 flooding the zone with information, and so I think that 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.839 would spend a lot of time, especially on cable news, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.040 arguing about whether or not Medicare should cover you know, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 or that we should do free glasses, or we should 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.400 do rebreakfast. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.880 Or we should you know what I mean. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.040 And the truth is, this is not about policy, This 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.440 is about persuasion. This is about connecting with voters. And 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.080 so I am particularly thrilled by this combination of these 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.000 two men because it really does show that, in fact, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.120 this is not an ideological issue. It is a communication issue. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.720 I think that's actually quite good. And thank you for 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:22.440 letting me. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.160 Vent on that well. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.360 Speaking of venting, protesters at Republican events were told that 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.120 your voice is meaningless. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:31.800 Yeah, shockingly. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.640 Look, these Republicans are so scared, right because as much 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:42.400 as they think trumpsm is great, or maybe they don't. Basically, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.640 they're supporting Trump because they're scared of what Trump will 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.440 do to them. They're supporting Musk because they're scared about 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.680 what Musk will do to them. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.080 Do they believe this stuff? 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.840 Certainly they believe in cutting the federal government, but I'm 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.400 sure they don't believe in an unelected billionaire being the 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.960 one who's deciding it via email. And so they are scared, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.200 and they are in a terrible situation, and they're going 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.839 to have to defend the indefensible, as they have done before. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.480 Saturday's protests come as Trump made several policy decisions, including 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.640 the creation of the Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.279 as unofficial agencies established to executive orders operating the White 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.760 House Task Force. The President has signed several executive orders 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.080 enacting this conservative agenda. But you know, also the other thing, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.000 and I think this is worth remembering when it comes 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.320 to executive orders, is that. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.440 They are very easy to undo. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.599 So many of these will not hold up in court, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.320 and many will be undone quickly. Now that said, there's 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.080 going to be a real problem in the Office of 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.720 Management and Budget whether or not Russ Vought will continue 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.279 to impound the funds because Jesse and I know from 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.960 our YouTube series that we did during the summer about 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.120 Project twenty twenty five that Russ Vought is working real 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.240 hard to make sure that the agencies that Congress allocated 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.720 the funds for do not cut the money. And so 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.800 I think that is what was will ultimately kick us 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.640 into a slow rolling constitutional crisis. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.960 Speaking of constitutional crisises, one of the concerns was that 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.280 the Supreme Court was going to uber stamp every one 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.480 of Trump's aggressions on the federal government. And so far 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.120 that's looking to actually not be the case, which is 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.080 a pleasant surprise. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:25.240 Yeah, so Supreme Court looked at Trump's ability to fire 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.920 the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:34.640 By the way, if you want transparency and government protecting 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.280 whistleblowers who come out and say when people are doing 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.080 corrupt things in the government, that's kind of how this goes. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.640 And remember Elon Musk, the real president keeps saying that 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.120 he wants transparency. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.600 This is about transparency. He's protecting transparency. It is not 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.240 about transparency. And you know it's not about transparency because 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.120 they are not being transparent and also because they refuse 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.920 to provide any transparentancy. That makes me think it's not 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.120 about transparency. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.840 Yeah, okay, Now on to the bad news. Hawaii, who 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.200 had probably the best response to the pandemic of all 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.960 fifty states. Their governor, Josh Green, he said some pretty 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.800 dark stuff on Friday. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.160 Let's just remember Elon Musk is cutting NIH funding. He's 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.160 cutting funding that is working on cheers for cancer and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.640 also infectious diseases. And basically, Josh Green is saying states 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.480 must prepare now for another pandemic, and man, he is 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.800 totally right. Also important to remember that Elon Musk made 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.040 all his money on scientific. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.640 Discoveries green energy. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.320 Here he is now making sure he's sort of closing 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.600 the door to others. Josh Green is worried that there's 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.199 going to be measles or bird flu or something like that. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.520 And I think he's right to be, and we all 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.480 should be worried about this. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.040 But this is how the things start. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.560 Rick wills And is the founder of the Lincoln Project 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.160 and the host of the Enemy's List. Welcome Back, two 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.760 Best Politics. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.319 Rick Wilson, Molly. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.199 John Fast, Happy day to you, my friend, and. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.880 I am happy to be here with you. And you 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.160 know why we're happy. Why are we happy? 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.000 Because bad people are getting smitten from time to time 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.440 now and smited, smited insmite rated. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.360 Yes, let's start with the beginning. Let's start with assessing 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:28.880 the president. Elon Musk. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.280 He is our greatest president. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:30.760 Right. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.520 He wrote a BCC email to the entire federal. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.280 Government impressive, I have to say, honestly impressive. And it's 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:45.400 it's it's sheer dumbfuckery level. Levels of dumbfuckery previously unknown 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:46.960 to science were achieved. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.800 It's one of these things where it's like I get 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.880 being high on your own supply because everyone has had 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.800 a moment like that, including myself. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.080 I know you're shocked to hear this. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.720 But I still think, like there was no one who said, 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.080 before you send this one email to everyone in the 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.800 federal government, let's game out what happens. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.480 Yeah, what are the consequences of this email? 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:09.920 Boss? 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.880 Like all megalomaniacs, he has reached the point where he 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.200 believes that nothing that he wants is wrong and that 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.800 no impulse could have other consequences. And the fact of 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.360 the matter is he's actually proving to a lot of 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.360 people that while Elon has a certain cunning, much like Trump, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.440 it's narrow and awfully dumb in some ways. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.400 Yeah, I think that's a really good point, that he 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.000 has a very narrow field of vision. And I do 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.080 think what you're saying is right. And I do think also, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.960 like as someone who has sort of been a fame hobbyist, 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.520 a person who has often thought a lot about how 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.560 fame affects people and wealth and power. One of the 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.520 things that I think is so interesting about him is 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.680 that he had quite a lot of goodwill, and maybe 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.640 that was what created this sort of invincibility. But there 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.360 really is a feeling when you watch his behavior that 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.600 he thinks that the tides will never turn for him 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.040 when it comes to popularity. And there were a lot 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.080 of polls this week that showed otherwise. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.600 There were a lot of surveys And by the way, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.320 my favorite thing of the week is Donald Trump declaring 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.160 he's at seventy one percent approval, and I'm like, motherfucker, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.840 you're not even at seventy one percent approval in your 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:25.440 own family. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.520 Well, not to hand it to Donald Trump, but seventy 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.120 one percent approval, we do not live in a country 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:35.120 where that is going. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.640 To be Our country doesn't work that way anymore. It 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.120 did back in the day. But he could cure cancer 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.360 tomorrow and people would be like, no, right, And the 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.640 same thing could have applied if George Bush had cured 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.880 cancer or whatever. Well, you just wear a divided country 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.720 in that respect. I think I don't see that changing 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:53.640 in the near term. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.520 So let's just talk through a little bit. So we 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.920 got MOSK sending this mass email. We have FRINT divisions 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:06.320 including cash Battel, Welcome to the Resistance, cash Battel. Just kidding, oh, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.400 saying ignore the Elon email, right, because the thing is, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.640 here's a guy who's saying he's going to fire whoever 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.800 doesn't write back something that makes him happy. You know, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:19.800 I want to like pause or a second and just 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.600 talk about this. Nobody wants waste. No one is served 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.360 by wasting your tax dollars. That said, just writing an 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:33.319 email to the entire federal government and then reading I 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.720 don't know who's going to read all of these emails, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.679 but the idea is that someone will, and that that person, oh. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.120 Oh, AI is going to read all these emails. That's 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.719 the thing here. They're going to have AI reading them 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.400 and say, oh, this person must go. They have not 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.000 displayed sufficient fealty to Lord Alon. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.400 I was actually just reading an article in the New 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.360 Yorker which made me think about this, Which is part 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.000 of what Elon is banking on, is that we all 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.480 think AI is further along than it is. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:00.520 Well. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.280 AI can certainly do a lot of things like edit 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.080 little changes in voice or whatever. It can't necessarily actually 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.040 figure out who's doing what in the federal government, or 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.360 it can't do the sort of nuances that would be 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:16.480 needed in this moment. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.760 It is not yet the magical box. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:20.920 It will be soon, unfortunately. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.199 Yeah, I mean we're racing toward that. My favorite story 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.040 of last week was there's a new AI that's purpose 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.480 is to hack other AIS. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.240 Great, it's probably fun. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.320 Fine, No, but you're right. I mean he is doing 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.400 this as part of his broader campaign to terrify the 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.920 federal workforce and to dishearten the federal workforce. And look, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.800 it has been somewhat effective to date. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:47.319 Right, they are terrified. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.040 I think it's worked. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.120 You know, you made smart people have a terrible time 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:53.920 and feel like shit. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.680 Congratulations Yet. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.520 In suject yeah, I mean, like these are people who 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.840 could have made more money in investment banking. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:06.520 Yeah. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.320 I look at it as what I call the high 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.040 skill skill cuts. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:10.560 Okay. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.800 I talked to somebody today who got fired from an 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.559 agency because she had gotten her scholarship and internship through 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.880 a women in science program. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.360 Right, which is Dhi DEI. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.200 They didn't care that she's a talented and very highly 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.560 educated person. In her field doesn't matter. You're out. You're 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.120 a dei hier if you're a woman, right well obviously 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.320 or black, I mean then, or if you're a forty 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.160 year combat veteran in the Joi Cheesus staff, or the 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.880 chief of Naval operations. Right that was a woman who 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.240 spent twenty years of her forty year career at sea 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.040 commanding destroyers. But now they're being replaced by a guy 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:56.720 whose main criteria not that he's a successful combatant commander 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.400 or ran a major staff organization that he was the 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.280 was a fighter pilot. Is who got Donald Trump's attention 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.119 for making his guys wear red hats? 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.840 Yeah wow cool? You know fieldy to the king in 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:09.400 the court. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.840 Very unsurprisingly, Trump continues to lose. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.040 Donald Trump is having a terrible run in the courts. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.240 I think it's getting a little hard for them now 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.680 because I am seeing the rhetoric coming from Elon, because 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.880 you can always watch Elon. He sort of like preps 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.560 the battlefield, like he prepped the battlefield on Ukraine. Now 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.880 he's prepping the battlefield on the judges. Satis that judge 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.480 must be impeached. And I promise you that the House 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.400 of Representatives is gonna gonna rev up the the old 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.200 impeachment wagon any minute now, Yeah, because Elon wants it. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:43.640 Who's he going to impeach? 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.800 The House? Is going to try to impeach judges in 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.160 the Senate, it's going to say hamanahamanahamana. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:48.240 No. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.240 So here's a bit of weirdness. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.000 I don't know if it's weirdness, but I think it's like, actually, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.440 good is the Supreme Court on Friday prevented Trump from 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 firing the head of the watchdog agency. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:00.960 That is not nothing. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.120 You know, we love to pooh pooh how incredibly demented 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.320 this court is, but it's nice to see that there 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:09.480 are still a fee. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.200 Once in a while you get a moment out of 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.880 this court where they say, no, thank you, we don't 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.120 choose today to be the day that we burned the 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.800 Constitution to the ground. Yes, it could happen anytime, mind you. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.120 Yeah, exactly. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.240 It's funny because as I watched this continual shit show 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.280 going on, and I think this is worth talking about 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.080 for a minute. You have all these federal employees who 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.200 have been fired for no reason. Some are there back 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.760 to try to rehire them. I'm thinking nukes, FDA FAA. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.960 It's been clear that a lot of the wrong people. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.160 It turns out that just firing people, you fire a 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.800 lot of the wrong people, people. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.400 You really need. But you did. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.800 Really what Elon did, which I think is is pretty spectacular, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.040 is he has radicalized the federal workforce. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.000 Oh yeah, look, I mean the bad news I probably 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.680 should even say this, but the bad news is the 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.359 ones that stay. If you think you've seen malicious compliance before, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.159 get ready for something entirely new. I said that there 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.840 are the high skill low skill cuts, and they both hurt. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.320 These people that are quote probationary offense because they changed 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.720 a job, not because they're new. And there was a 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.080 belief initially on Elon's part in the in his team's part, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.199 that anyone who was probationary must have been put in 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.080 there as a sleeper agent by Joe Biden. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.120 Well, I don't think they understand what probationary means. There 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.720 have been a number of points where it. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.840 Becomes clear that Elon doesn't actually know how any of 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.160 those works, Like when he learned about judges. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.720 You mean any day that ends in a why, right, But. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.040 When he learned about judges, that was amazing. He was like, well, 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.639 that means that we couldn't do everything we want, And 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:46.520 I was. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.280 Like, may I introduce you to Chief Justice John Marshall. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.040 Yeah, no, Roberts. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.800 I think the other part of this starting to Marshall, 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.280 I'm talking about Barbari versus Madison. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.560 And oh that's what I thought you were to. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.120 Actual division of the. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.000 Yeah, ware to go, Rick Wilson owning Jesse Cannon with 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.200 his continue Yes, sir. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.960 The other cuts that I think are actually starting to 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.320 penetrate in the minds of a lot of voters are 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.080 things like park rangers, firefighters, USDA inspectors. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.000 Wait, you want food that doesn't make you sick? 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.479 You call me crazy, but I picked that one up 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.800 this weekend that the new problem that's happening is they're 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.880 laying off all these food inspectors and so now the 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.040 farmers who are trying to sell their product can't get 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.320 it to market. And aside from you raw milk goons, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.800 most of us don't want to have listeria or salmonella 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.560 or rotavirus or any the other assorted parade of things 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.040 that at least a cursory inspection by a trained human 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.240 being might help prevent. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.880 Yeah, well, Ai can probably do that. No, agree, Well, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:50.840 I don't even think that. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.280 They're not thinking that exactly. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:53.399 No, I know they are thinking that. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.480 I just feel like we can't say this enough. This 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.520 is all to pay for tax cuts. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.440 Yeah, and they say, oh, it's four point seven billion 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.920 dollars in the tax cut. The actual debt that will 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.040 be accumulated from it in the first five years of 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:12.080 the tax cut is ten point nine trillion dollars. Now, 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.439 Elon Musk is out there and so far they've managed 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.040 to find about eighty billion dollars in cuts. Most of 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.080 those cuts are bullshit. Most of it's made up in 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:20.760 their heads. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.320 Some of it is just the zero in the wrong place. 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.399 Right, some of it is they missed a comma. But 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.800 the crisis ahead for them, and I think this is 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.520 a meaningful and real thing they need to sort of 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.399 grapple with. Is this tax cut for Elon and Bezos 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.359 and Zuckerberg and a handful of other people, Because remember, folks, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.480 if you don't make over about five hundred thousand dollars 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.679 a year, the tax cut is actually a tax increase 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.960 for you, and not to mention, you're going to be 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.760 hit with another tax increase, not counted in the score 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.679 so far, which is the tariffs, which will cause another 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:53.040 tax increase. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.880 For you make for yourself. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.360 Yeah, but all of this comes down Molly, I think too. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.159 Now I'm kidding, of course, No. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:58.960 I think all this. 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.920 Stuff comes down to they don't understand what they're doing, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.879