Rachel Maddow

What the business guys have done, what the business world has done is decide that they want to be part of Trump's authoritarian rule. Like they want to be they want the spoils of what an authoritarian dictatorship style government can loot the American people. public and the American economy, and they want it for themselves.

What the business guys have done, what the business world has done is decide that they want to be part of Trump's authoritarian rule. Like they want to be they want the spoils of what an authoritarian dictatorship style government can loot the American people. public and the American economy, and they want it for themselves.

And that's, if that's what the business capitulation is about, and it's not the same as the universities and the law firms and Trump voters, then maybe there isn't room for the kind of, you know, sort of mercy and U-turn that I'm hoping for from those other elements. What do you think?

And that's, if that's what the business capitulation is about, and it's not the same as the universities and the law firms and Trump voters, then maybe there isn't room for the kind of, you know, sort of mercy and U-turn that I'm hoping for from those other elements. What do you think?

And you had to work it out with Boris. Correct.

And you had to work it out with Boris. Correct.

Holy cow. The guy who was pushed out of the transition, this transition for allegedly charging people money. Cash money to get appointments in the Trump administration. To get them confirmed by the Senate.

Holy cow. The guy who was pushed out of the transition, this transition for allegedly charging people money. Cash money to get appointments in the Trump administration. To get them confirmed by the Senate.

But do the business guys come too?

But do the business guys come too?

Yes, exactly. Like I can't I'm sort of I want to fast forward a little bit to see what he ends up doing to Marco Rubio.

Yes, exactly. Like I can't I'm sort of I want to fast forward a little bit to see what he ends up doing to Marco Rubio.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, yeah, I feel like the thing that I'm worst at in our type of politics and news coverage is human psychology, just because I'm a weirdo. Yeah. Like, I don't know anybody. Like, you're my friend, but I don't know anybody else, Nicole.

Yeah, well, yeah, I feel like the thing that I'm worst at in our type of politics and news coverage is human psychology, just because I'm a weirdo. Yeah. Like, I don't know anybody. Like, you're my friend, but I don't know anybody else, Nicole.

I'm not going to elaborate on my answers to that because it'll be too revealing. But yeah, I am a hermit. And so the idea that I don't know what lurks in his heart and I don't know what's going on in his mind, but I do know that there are a lot of people like him in history who had a path to political power and to some degree to personal glory based on

I'm not going to elaborate on my answers to that because it'll be too revealing. But yeah, I am a hermit. And so the idea that I don't know what lurks in his heart and I don't know what's going on in his mind, but I do know that there are a lot of people like him in history who had a path to political power and to some degree to personal glory based on

purported values, or at least performance of purported values. And then when they realized that there was some sort of force taking over in politics that could sort of vaunt them up a few steps without them having to do the work themselves, they just jettisoned everything that had purportedly been their values before and instead leeched onto the new power.

purported values, or at least performance of purported values. And then when they realized that there was some sort of force taking over in politics that could sort of vaunt them up a few steps without them having to do the work themselves, they just jettisoned everything that had purportedly been their values before and instead leeched onto the new power.