Bill Kristol: The Law Be Damned
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Who are the guests and hosts of this episode?
Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It's the fourth week of Trump 2.0, somehow only the fourth week, and it's Monday. So I'm back with our editor at large, Bill Kristol. How are you doing, Bill? Is it the fourth week? It's unbelievable, actually. Time flies when you're having fun, Tim, you know? Yeah. No doubt. We need to start with the most important item of the weekend. We're going to get to Super Bowl stuff at the end. And obviously, we have the constitutional crisis to discuss and many other matters. It's tariff week again. It's going to be infrastructure week throughout the late 2010s and tariff week through the mid-2020s, I think.
What is the controversy involving Elon Musk and Twitter?
But the burning subject on the mind of the shadow president, Elon Musk, over the weekend was whether or not you are white. It was a very fine statement. Twitter reply guys replied to Elon saying that Bill Kristol is Jewish, not white, correcting a tweet that Elon had sent. Elon replied, this idea that Jewish people are not white is ridiculous. Someone like Kristol is peak white, if anything. That dude barely has any melatonin. Quick aside, melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate your sleep-wake cycle. Heavy MDMA usage creates a depletion of melatonin in the body, so maybe that's why melatonin was on Elon's mind, but melanin, I think, is the word he was looking for. So, Bill, do you want to clear things?
I mean, obviously, very pressing matters for our shadow president this weekend, debating with his racist followers over your whiteness, but I wonder if you have any thoughts.
Yeah, I've been around Washington for 40 years, almost 40 years now, and I've never really discussed my melanin count or whatever. Melanin, is there a melanin count? I don't know, whatever it is. That's the guy I really focused on for some reason. I don't know. Yeah, it's wonderful, Lady Elon Musk. This was in the course of obviously... remember that white supremacist they fired for like two minutes and on friday that kid yeah who had tweeted that he was he was a racist before being a racist was cool and musk was on the first to say he's got to be reinstated and i said it quite makes sense musk has no problem with white supremacism something like that and that led to him saying i'm white and i'm the stupidest person around i don't care what he said something like that you're a sub-tard i think sometimes that was nice that's also it's good that the way they they take to i mean i don't even know what that's not a word i guess but
But retard is a word and a word that some people find offensive, understandably, in discussing people who have various medical issues. They love using, you know, this is an interesting thing about, I think, MAGA world and Musk world, right? They love using words that are offensive words. to offend people.
I mean, I guess really what's the device signal. I did a YouTube interview this weekend with my, with my guy, Jeremiah Johnson, who writes a really good newsletter on, on Substack. And he was like, no, it's, it's, it's to signal to the supporters, you know, I'm going to be on your side because I'm willing to say bad things. Right. I'm willing to say really mean things. And that's a sign of loyalty.
Why is there a constitutional crisis with Trump's administration?
Right.
Anyway. So then I, yeah. So he said, I'm too stupid to be a, I proved that whites aren't Supreme. So I was so stupid. And, uh, And then, yes, and then one of his many, many, I guess, I never look at the follows, but... Susan made the mistake of looking at them for five minutes. I mean, a very high percentage, you'll be surprised to hear this, Tim, a very high, surprisingly high percentage of Elon Musk's followers on Twitter are racist and anti-Semites. I don't know how that happened. You know, it's just like weird how they found him, you know?
That is surprising. It's similar to how do all the Doge staffers tend to be racist? Like, you know, it's a mystery, you know? Maybe it's just kind of a random dispersion throughout society of racists and it's just kind of bad luck that they all ended up in Doge. That might be one.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who are the guests and hosts of this episode?
0:23–0:57
2
What is the controversy involving Elon Musk and Twitter?
0:57–3:07
3
Why is there a constitutional crisis with Trump's administration?
3:07–6:06
4
How are the courts being challenged by the current administration?
6:06–13:55
5
What are the implications of the NIH funding cuts?
13:55–21:38
6
What political ramifications could arise from recent government actions?
21:38–47:56
Speakers
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