Annie Jacobsen
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, maybe we'll get the band back together in five months and have a discussion and we'll all be wrong.
I don't know.
I mean, the Constitution says he is.
The Constitution says he is.
I don't have a crystal ball.
I'm going to pick up on Andrew's thought about a strong leader versus a strong arm, because it's so important to think about moving forward.
And is that even possible?
You know, yes, we absolutely cannot have a weak leader.
I mean, look what happened with Putin moving into Ukraine, taking Ukraine, attacking Ukraine.
And I think that, you know, who wants to be president?
There's also this idea of you, you know, you look at the records of how people come into office, how they campaign, saying what they are.
I'm going to get rid of these dangerous nuclear policies.
They have all kinds of optimistic ideas about things.
And then something happens in that first briefing, something none of us know.
It's so mysterious.
And they never talk about.
And then their policies and their perspective deeply changes.
And I think people move from an idea that they can be a strong leader to the idea that they have to be a strong arm.
And I think that's deeply depressing to me.
And I am an eternal optimist, so I want to see that change.