Tim Miller

But I don't know, man, this week, the thought has crossed my mind a couple of times the last two days that that between the, you know, potentially losing hold of the pair of Magus, as you call them on Epstein, between the just the economic problems that are happening in the country that they don't seem to have any plan for reversing.

If anything, they seem to be making it worse.

the fact that people after the election last week can kind of smell within their own coalition can sort of smell lame duckedness on him in a way that they couldn't before it does feel like it's at least possible that this week could be a week we look back on and say you know the wheels did finally come off this fucking thing he was around for way too long but but it's that was the point where it started is that too optimistic is this too friday pollyanna for you

Speaking of that, there's an interesting tariff announcement yesterday.

I have one more Epstein thing, but since you led me there on the tariffs.

This is from the New York Times.

The Trump administration is preparing tariff rollbacks on goods from countries beyond those that have reached trade agreements with the U.S.

in an effort to lower prices.

They specifically mentioned also the coffee tariffs.

They're rolling back in an effort to lower prices.

That's intriguing.

So they're going to roll back tariffs in the hopes that that lowers prices.

Huh.

Wait a minute.

Scott Besant and Howard Nutleg told me that this wasn't true, that the tariffs were increasing prices.

But it's interesting then that to roll them back would, in theory, lower prices.

I don't know.

Was it the very first David Frum podcast or the second?

Was it a two-hour deep dive on early 20th century tariff policy?

And I was eating it up by the pool, I've got to tell you.