Jamel Bouie

That's from Bongi's performance.

You know, my honest reaction when I saw her kind of unravel and she's flipping through her papers looking for various burns to use against Democrats was this person is a lightweight, right?

Like you should be able to handle pressure.

from the congressional committees responsible for oversight.

You should be able to handle pressure from your political opponents.

That kind of pressure should not result in you having a visible meltdown for the public.

And to my mind, this is just the defining aspect of Trump's second term, really, as opposed to his first.

It's first where many of the high-level positions were taken up by people you might find in any Republican administration.

Here we have people like Bondi who should not be within 100 miles of these jobs, who are demonstrably unsuited and unqualified for these jobs.

And we're seeing why, right?

Both in terms of performance and in terms of substance, they just cannot do what they're tasked with doing, whether that's good or bad, right?

Like,

Even the corrupt stuff Bondi's supposed to be doing, she's not good at.

Can I add two things?

One comment, and I'll add two things.

One comment is that it is very funny to see the kind of like good czar, bad boy-ar dynamic happening, I think, among commentators.

It's sort of a classic thing.

Rationalization for bad authoritarian governance, which is a bit of a redundant authoritarian governance, is bad as a matter of course, but it's just funny to see.

The two comments I wanted to make is, one, David, you said that, you know, Trump puts your job on one side and your morality and so on and so forth, the other side.

And this gets back to what I said a little earlier, which is, I mean, this is one of the things about this administration is that he's selected for people whose sense of morality in the first place is somewhat deficient, right?