Gillian Spear

Well, I think it's just that, like Adam said early on, which is like this economic realignment, you know, this pursuit of onshoring, these are not necessarily bad goals, but they're not to be confused with policies that actually advance the interests of the working class. And I think Saurabh was completely in agreement on that.

Yeah. I mean, how does a bastard orphan son of a whore?

It's hard to do a sequel when, spoiler, he dies.

I think I'm similar to you where I love being home with my dog. If somebody else was doing that, I'd have a lot of FOMO.

No, it definitely was different.

Yeah, it definitely differs from what I've been reading in the mainstream press about what happened.

There was no reducing this down to a group of people were not even addressed. Right.

And it would happen faster through authoritarianism. Yeah.

Gridlocked.

Absolutely. Well, I remember in the aftermath, I think of 2016, where they were doing surveys of young people and there was this weird shift towards the acceptance of authoritarianism and the underlying principle was like, at least something would get done. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's the conversation all Democrats are having amongst themselves right now. And there's that tension and hopefully they'll move towards something eventually.

This is a bit tangential to what you're saying, but it really stood out to me and it kind of follows this path, which is just that the Democrats need to rebuild confidence. But I think you said something along the lines of one administration has set things up for the other. And I was thinking about this constitutional crisis we're all discussing whether it's occurring or not.

And the foundation of it is that, at least from what I'm reading, is that the Trump administration has not unfrozen funds that a court has told them they must unfreeze. And I can't help but thinking during my time as a national security reporter, how many times I had sat in a courtroom and listened to a situation where the Obama administration, let's say, was not following a court order.

One example I can think of is like with torture pictures, people think of like images. And when they're ordered to release them, they'll be like, oh, well, well, we'll we'll put them in groupings and we'll put a representative picture because for national security, we can't. And then it was just this understanding that this is the process. Of courts.

And that's kind of where we are right now is everyone decides where we're at. It's like, well, this is the process of courts.

And of course, I don't want to downplay this moment. I don't want to downplay this moment. And it's a very different situation.

But one administration does set up things for the next.

Yeah, it went right over my head. I don't do sports ball. I apologize. I even skipped the Super Bowl and went to a Broadway show.

I thought you were going to say the pendulum swing.

I like the idea that Jillian just wants five minutes on the phone with Trump and all she wants to discuss is daylight savings time.

We're off next week.

55?

All right.

Fair enough.

Yeah, he's somewhere in the middle.

We've got two juicy ones.

What was the cause of the moment you first found yourself politically engaged?

Yeah. Yeah. That was a biggie for me. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I went to school in Long Island and I was sitting in my art class and I just saw fire engines going past like all day. And I definitely was curious like what is happening? And they didn't tell us at the time because there were kids in the school whose parents were in the building. Oh, Jesus. Right. They all got out. They were okay.

But that was the first time that I was inquisitive. But I would say personally, really, you kind of had that impact on me. Not to make this about you, but- That's a terrible, terrible thing.

No. But yeah, I mean, I would say that you had a big impact on kind of me getting or paying attention politically.

All right. We got another one.

Should elected officials, like Ted Cruz, for example, be allowed to have podcasts?

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Bye.

Yeah. Yeah. Wherever you go, you're the leader. Speaker, you're just a mouthpiece. Yeah. Follow the leader.

Well, first I'd like to say he actually is my congressman. What? Yes. Brooklyn. Yeah, Brooklyn's in the house. All right. All right. It's the first time I've ever had outsized influence in politics. Yes. I'm enjoying that.

Yeah. I feel more confident he speaks with such authority. I do feel like there's still this like protectiveness of a certain era of democratic politics that's kind of pervasive in the party. Like I got a fundraising text the other day from James Carville. I'm just, we got to break up with that.

He's very savvy.

Yes, with healthcare, absolutely.

He did not follow the World Series, clearly. Brutal. I'm sorry.

His name is Kyle Schwarber.

It's just commercials and Kendrick Lamar.

Awful.