Bill Kristol

And I think that snickering at the people that folded is actually probably valuable at this point and pointing and laughing at them so that more people don't do this because they folded and got nothing, which was obvious from the start that that was going to be the case. that this was not like a one-time thing. Like, you pay your $16 million.

With Pope Leo in my mind, I've got the Catholic Church. What do we call the Catholic Church donations back in the old days? Indulgences. Indulgences. Oh, that's good. That's good. It's not like you pay your $16 million indulgence, you know, to Trump, and then, you know, you get blessed. Uh, by dear father. And then, and then it moves on. Like it never, it never ends.

With Pope Leo in my mind, I've got the Catholic Church. What do we call the Catholic Church donations back in the old days? Indulgences. Indulgences. Oh, that's good. That's good. It's not like you pay your $16 million indulgence, you know, to Trump, and then, you know, you get blessed. Uh, by dear father. And then, and then it moves on. Like it never, it never ends.

With Pope Leo in my mind, I've got the Catholic Church. What do we call the Catholic Church donations back in the old days? Indulgences. Indulgences. Oh, that's good. That's good. It's not like you pay your $16 million indulgence, you know, to Trump, and then, you know, you get blessed. Uh, by dear father. And then, and then it moves on. Like it never, it never ends.

And so there's no point in paying the indulgence in the first place.

And so there's no point in paying the indulgence in the first place.

And so there's no point in paying the indulgence in the first place.

We need to make it that there's no point paying the indulgence in the first place. And part of the way to do that is to, you know, snicker at it and make it unrespectable and to do so and make people pay a social and cultural and maybe even economic price for indulgence. doing so.

We need to make it that there's no point paying the indulgence in the first place. And part of the way to do that is to, you know, snicker at it and make it unrespectable and to do so and make people pay a social and cultural and maybe even economic price for indulgence. doing so.

We need to make it that there's no point paying the indulgence in the first place. And part of the way to do that is to, you know, snicker at it and make it unrespectable and to do so and make people pay a social and cultural and maybe even economic price for indulgence. doing so.

I wish I were more confident that all those business leaders who went with Trump on his Middle Eastern trip and sucked up to Trump. I'm sure people in their company are not going to be very critical of Trump for the next few weeks and months and so forth. All the elites who've gone along with Trump, I wish I were more confident they're not going to end up, at least in the short term,

I wish I were more confident that all those business leaders who went with Trump on his Middle Eastern trip and sucked up to Trump. I'm sure people in their company are not going to be very critical of Trump for the next few weeks and months and so forth. All the elites who've gone along with Trump, I wish I were more confident they're not going to end up, at least in the short term,

I wish I were more confident that all those business leaders who went with Trump on his Middle Eastern trip and sucked up to Trump. I'm sure people in their company are not going to be very critical of Trump for the next few weeks and months and so forth. All the elites who've gone along with Trump, I wish I were more confident they're not going to end up, at least in the short term,

feeling like they made a pretty clever move, you know? Come on, Bill. Give me something here.

feeling like they made a pretty clever move, you know? Come on, Bill. Give me something here.

feeling like they made a pretty clever move, you know? Come on, Bill. Give me something here.

Give me something to that.

Give me something to that.

Give me something to that.

No, maybe not Iger and Disney. I mean, honestly, well, it's not even worth getting into. Yeah, media is a different situation in a way because it's more public-facing. I think that's an advantage in a way that we have with the media than businesses where we don't quite know what they're getting and what they're not getting. That's a good point.