Jack Smith

the U.S.

government into basically Tammany Hall with nukes.

They want a complete machine that's also like the global superpower where like everyone has a job because you gave Donald Trump some money or you know him, right?

And this is like the ultimate rebuke to them.

And what you do with your job is serve the machine.

Don't forget, Tammany Hall also tried to do some good things.

You're right, actually.

You are actually correct that Townie Hall is actually superior.

No, that is actually an important and good point.

You know, the second thing, I mean, the other very lukewarm take I have is like, boy, it really, I mean, he was guilty as hell and it was a real mistake we elected him again.

The final thing I thought was just watching it, the sort of optics, take a step back, is like someone used this term that we're in the midst of a click-tatership.

Yeah.

This sense that everything they're doing, the Trump administration, is spectacle, the sort of spectacle of menace, that when an ICE officer actually shoots and kills an American citizen in her car, he has to move the cell phone from his hand to the other hand so he could keep recording as he shoots her.

because the generation of content is so important.

Today, we got reporting that when Charlie Kirk was killed, Kash Patel inside the FBI, the first thing he was concerned about was what he could tweet and coordinating with Dan Bongino about what he could tweet, that he wanted to tweet pictures from Windsor Castle with his girlfriend that actually would expose MI5 agents.

It's all in New York Times Magazine today.

This obsession with spectacle.

And here's Jack Smith is like the ultimate opposite of that, right?

Like a sober, solemn, serious person facing down this kind of carnival of

that has now become, again, and that's always been part of politics, hearings, as you will attest, right?