Matt Welch
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460 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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And one that's centered on finding opportunities for mutually beneficial exchange is probably a way for us to have some meaningful influence here. Does it mean doing really difficult things like trying to carefully select your words in public when talking about someone who you're looking for a partnership like this with?
While behind closed doors, we hope having sober conversations about the things that they're doing that are unacceptable. Yeah, it means that. Does it also mean acknowledging that the world is complicated, that while you're exchanging the stick for the carrot in the context of Syria, you also have really severe problems that you're still dealing with?
I think it was the Houthis' attack during the speech. So the real-world problems still exist, but the limitations of the previous disposition towards trying to reshape the Middle East by way of U.S. policy, as opposed to finding ways to gently... entangle our shared interests from an economic standpoint, I think is really important.
I think this is probably one of the better moments of the second Trump presidency. The challenge, however, is that it is somewhat overshadowed in certain context by the appearance of corruption. The scandal with respect to the Qatari plane is one thing, but also the fact that- Mark Halperin says zero chance Trump ever steps out on that plane.
How much Trump wants to fight for the plane. But I also think the fact that his sons have been in the in in these same countries in the weeks before, in days before the president got there, essentially striking deals for the Trump organization. Again, is there anything explicitly corrupt about any of this? Does any of it suggest that there is necessarily some sort of quid pro quo?
No, I haven't seen any evidence of that. But as we said repeatedly, when we talked about Biden and Burisma, the appearance of corruption is often as important and consequential as actual corruption.
I mean, if I was over there, I probably would have adopted the local garb for that event, personally. The what?
Yeah, the local garb instead of the suit. I think that would have been a better look for Marco in that moment, for sure. You wouldn't have seen the belly. I do not want to see the Secretary of State neck.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I think I've read, I have read some accounts of this. I do have some interest in the story. We also talk about these things professionally in Moynihan every once in a while. And look, Cassie, the Cassie situation is awful. Camille's joining the motion to see the freak-offs.
How can I talk about this if I don't watch? At least a little bit. You know, I don't mind. Maybe pixelate it if you want to. Fine, but I'm going to watch.
At least give me the sound, you know? Sorry, keep going. Yeah, Camille, then they come for your freak-offs. Yes. But I do think, you know, Diddy, clearly a violent person, dangerous, I think deviant are words that apply here. I agree. I mean, the federal RICO attempt, I'm still, to my knowledge, there isn't anyone else who's been charged, right?
And the whole thing seems kind of unusual in that regard. One imagines that, as you said, Megan, the rest of those charges couldn't be brought in some of those other situations. But I mean, the things that were alleged in that civil suit that he settled with Cassie that he had for eight figures reportedly. Yeah, but that he blown up Kid Cudi's car.
I mean, these are extraordinary, extraordinary allegations. This is a guy who sounds like, it sounds like he believes he is above the law and can get away with just about anything. And stories about his violent temper and his capacity to attack even other superstars. I mean, there's a pretty notorious story about him beating up Drake at some point, and that's Drake is a really big star.
It's nutty stuff. I'm very interested to see where the case goes, but I share the kind of skepticism of the federal prosecution here that I think they may have overreached, but we'll have to see what else they've got in the holster there.
Lifted. I hear there's no gravity in space. Space is the cosmic brawl. that Katy Perry needs to be further empowered bothers me. She's already got about a billion dollars and, you know, short of Taylor Swift is the most famous pop star and female pop star in the world.
Um, that she needs empowerment says something sad about women because it means that even with a billion dollars, they still need a boost, uh, from the space program or Jeff Bezos, his private space program, but they were all oligarchs. Let's remember they were oligarchs in space. And, uh, So they're trying to have their cake and eat it too on the left, I guess. That's exactly right.
This is so... This is why she needs empowering because she keeps revealing her stupidity like that and we have to boost her back up. Yes.
I was in terror that we were going to have another space shuttle disaster and that we were going to have to mourn these people for maybe the next 700 years. They did add to the space program something that it hasn't had, which is the red carpet and the sort of fashion critique at the beginning. So it was a combination of the MTV Music Awards, the Oscars, and the Apollo program.
I thought it was condescending. I think that's what you're getting at. It was belittling to women, and they belittle women with their behavior and their, I don't know, antics, I would call them.
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