Will Sommer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 Aug
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And he was like, we just got to nuke China, just nuke those dams and flood the whole country. And I thought, man, if this is what like one of the main voices in the party wants here, you know, in the right wing media.
I feel like there's this disconnect between the voters and what the politicians are doing, which is, you know, like cutting Social Security, trying to balance the budget, stuff like that. And ultimately, we saw that that contradiction resolved by Trump, who, you know, is giving the voters all these kind of atomistic or giving into their urges.
And so, yeah, I mean, I think it is ominous for me to be keeping up with this stuff so closely and then think, well, geez, you know, it seems like Trump is really willing to do a lot of things for the base. And so what is he going to do next?
It went on for a few more years. And then I was working for this state senate primary campaign in Texas. And Dan Patrick, who is now the lieutenant governor, he won and he beat my candidate. And I thought, well, that guy's like a total lunatic. If this is what you want in a landslide.
And I thought if this is that was kind of like my crisis moment with the GOP, where I thought, if this is what the voters want, I mean, that's not what I want, you know, and so I think I have to go go another direction.
Well, no, I think there's a lot to that. I mean, you think about Trump's interview on Joe Rogan where people said, oh, he just came off like a normal guy. I thought he'd be kind of foaming at the mouth or doing Hitler salutes or what have you.
And so you have to kind of, as you said, you have to kind of build up, as I do, I mean, build up kind of files on these people and build up kind of like what they're – that's why I'm so fascinated by kind of the feuds and kind of these inflection moments where people really have to sort of reveal themselves. Yeah.
That sigh. That really crisp mic for the sigh there.
Well, it's interesting to see, as you pointed out, Larry Kudlow is not really grilling Elon. He's just saying, how do you do such an amazing job saving the country and running all these businesses? And Elon goes, oh my God, I don't know. It's not going well. It's remarkable. It's just crazy to think about the Tesla brand, even just since this administration started.
In December, I had a family member who was like, well, kind of California Democrat. Well, maybe I'll buy a Tesla. I don't love Elon. But now, the idea of buying a Tesla just seems crazy, I think, for liberals, at least. Yeah.
It is striking. I mean, I feel like we're so just through the looking glass, but the idea of the president being like, look, my buddy's company is in trouble. You got to go buy, buy, buy. Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I mean, there are... It strikes me as a sort of a weak point, a weak moment for Elon.
A lot of these agencies previously did not have heads or people were kind of the cabinet heads were just getting in control of them. Now we're starting to see, obviously, the Times reported on the Sean Duffy Elon fight. And I think there's a lot more of that, like, all right, buddy, like back off. Stop sending your the 12 year olds into my office to fire everyone.
I think there's this kind of classic challenge between what you describe as the Bannonite wing, perhaps, and their main focus is immigration, deporting people, building the wall, sort of, I think, Russia tilting foreign policy as secondary. But they don't really care that much about the budget.
And so they don't care about these kind of hack and slash things that they know are going to just anger people and get them kicked out of office or lose control of Congress quicker. And so that's kind of the fracture point.
Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, I think they're missing the or there's a sense of like, that's why USAID made such a tasty target for that, because it's like, you know, it's these these liberal pencil necks who are helping people in other countries.
It is surprising to me that the VA has been such an immediate target because, you know, you would think of that as something you wouldn't really hit to avoid alienating Trump voters. The other thing about Bannon is, like, I think it's important to keep in mind how much of his agita towards tech people is motivated by his belief that we're going to become robots, essentially.
I think a lot of people underscore, like, he has a singularity correspondent, a guy who comes on the show every couple weeks. And the singularity being, by the way, the moment our consciousnesses are uploaded into the matrix, essentially, we all become robots. And so, I mean, this is like a very pressing issue to him. On the other hand, Elon is implanting chips in people's brains.
So he's really on the, they're on the opposite sides of like, do we become cyborgs? And for both of them, they see this as like a very, like very relevant issue.
Yeah, so this is an unusually controversial choice, I guess, for a fast food stop. Yeah, so last week, Steak and Shake tried to rebrand as the sort of like anti-woke fast food chain. They put up some stuff with like kind of suspiciously kind of like Nazi type font, like a lot of like Gothic font.
about their burgers and they said well we're going to start doing our fries only in beef tallow and so the there's sort of like this paranoia about seed oils so like canola oil other oils this idea that they're like introducing some sort of like impurities into your body this is very big on the right they call them the sinister oils they call the hateful eight so it's like you know it's good they're not getting over dramatic about it but the hateful eight oils yes
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