Tim Miller

I was literally just texting some of my friends about this this morning.

We're going back and forth.

There's a new story that the Pentagon's preparing for being there until September.

What?

My response to him is, what I think is that Pete Hegseth is very excited about this.

And, you know, Pete Hagseth likes to play war and, you know, it's like kind of make a wish secretary of defense now.

And he wants to bomb stuff and he thinks that like bombing that ship in the Indian sea that that was no threat, like was cool.

And like, that's what he's in it for.

But I also think that Trump is going to look at all the polls and markets and gas and pat him on the head eventually and say, no, OK, war over.

Good luck to the.

People of Iran and the Kurds and the mullahs and you guys can fight it out like that.

That's what I think he's going to do.

But it's low confidence that because like I said, I just I thought he was going to talk on this.

I just I fundamentally didn't think he was going to do it.

So I'm missing something about about the Trump psychology on this one.

I wanted to ask you about there was something that was more satisfying on your various unified theories of how to look at Trump.

You posted this the other day, and it was kind of in the context of the anthropic dispute.

I want to get into that, but let's talk about this more broadly first, which is you wrote that you continue to think a useful way to look at this administration is kind of a systematic control F monarchy search function to discover the tools of authoritarianism embedded deep in the legal code.

I liked that.

Talk a little bit more about that.