Tim Miller

She just posted, just posted, it's not sent to me right now, this is a five-alarm fire, and she posted a poll with Trump at 33% approval.

One poll, but...

You know, he seems less responsive to all that stuff than before.

Whether it's, you know, there's the dark version of the theory, the JVL version of the theory is he's not ever planning on leaving, so he doesn't care about this.

Or maybe there's more of like the...

optimistic version of the theory, which is he's thinking about his legacy and he wants, you know, and he cares about that more than his political standing.

He doesn't give a fuck about the House and Senate Republicans.

So whatever, you know, or maybe it's just he has dementia or ADHD and he's just like living minute to minute and he doesn't have object permanence and like can't think long term.

There's some combination of all those things that he seems less responsive to the political implications that he would have been in the first term.

There's a big Atlantic article today about the whatever you think about the AI boom.

It's been partially carrying the economy, you know, where there isn't a lot of other growth industries right now.

You know, private prisons, crypto and data centers as the Trump economy and home health care workers.

He deported all the immigrants that were doing that.

So those are the four places where you see job growth.

And it's like it could be a major crisis in that and the industry.

Right.

Just because they need more and more of all those things.

Steel, helium, oil.

One thing that you start to learn about as you get older in life is the importance of consistency, dependability.

The Bill Crystal Monday podcast, consistent, dependable.