Bill Kristol

of corruption, of criminality, of just shamelessness and, and grifting and, and conning their own supporters and so forth.

And I, I didn't actually in the newsletter, but I just didn't have the energy at the time.

But this is like, it got too depressing.

It was like we were saying before, before we were a little upbeat the last two weeks.

we're upbeat because the wheels are coming off.

And I think that is true.

And so these two things can both be true.

The wheels are kind of coming off and it's also getting worse and which is going to happen first is a huge question.

And also the other problem is if the wheels come off, if you want to torture this metaphor,

you know, like an out of control bus careening across the American landscape and across the world.

That's not a good thing either.

So, but anyway, I think that's why we're sort of seem simultaneous.

We seem slightly schizophrenic probably on this podcast, you know, because it is kind of an odd situation, but I mean, again, the, the degree of criminality and I thought maybe I shouldn't use the term criminal.

That's a little strong.

I could say grifter and I could say this and I, but I mean, they are a gang of criminals and from the top down,

And they're all complicit.

And the ones who aren't personally engaging in the grifts are complicit and legitimate.

If you're in the White House Counsel's Office, you're letting all this happen.

And I've lost all patience with the notion that some of them are better than others almost at this point.

I feel like if you're part of it, you're part of it.