Bill Kristol

Trump fantasy about oil stuff, it's it is revealing that, yes, he wants to control it.

This is about him being, you know, more authoritarianism in this case abroad, but also back at home.

Right.

Because it does end up he controls what the oil companies do here.

And they have been screaming about the social, God, if Mamdani sets up five tiny little grocery stores in New York or gets a little tougher on some of the real estate guys, if California passes it probably or tries to enforce probably an ill-advised whatever tax on the wealth of billionaires, it probably would just be counterproductive.

They'll leave, but whatever.

That's the end of capitalism.

This is so beyond the pale, we can't even have a discussion about it or pretend that it's anything but an assault on everything we believe

whole deer in this capitalist country of ours.

But Trump, who's gone so far beyond Mamdani, even what Mamdani wants, you know, even if he weren't constrained by all these other characters, Trump's not constrained.

But even so far behind Mamdani, so far beyond Gavin Newsom, that's all...

Is anyone complaining?

I don't know.

I mean, they did finally get alarmed about Powell, as we were saying, but I don't know.

Are they all screaming about this?

Maybe I missed that.

I give the Exxon guy credit for just saying it.

I guess maybe Exxon is so big, he doesn't care, or he just felt he had to be honest.

I don't know.

It was unusual, actually.