Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It is the last daily Bulwark Podcast out of the year. I'll be back. I'm not like my guest who's taken off, who knows, a whole month, I think, working on French time. I'll be back the Monday after Christmas. But next week I'm going skiing. I need it. And today I'm here with the co-founder of Crooked Media, co-host of Pond Save America. You might have heard of it. He also has a podcast, Offline. He was Obama's speechwriter from 2005 to 2013. It's Jon Favreau. What's going on, man?
Thanks for holding space for me in this last Daily Bulletwork podcast for a while.
We're going to hold a lot of space together, actually. At the very end of this podcast, I'm going to endeavor to make you cry like John Lovett did when he was last on. I'm telling you, you're going to have a tough time. His tears were on Jesse Waters' show. So if we don't have a clip from this podcast show up on Jesse Waters' show, it is going to be a disappointment.
Wait, did Jesse Waters' show Lovett crying on your show? Did that happen?
Yeah.
How did I miss that? Why didn't you send that around?
I think I did. I don't remember. Or maybe I was sensitive about it. I might have not sent it because I felt bad for it. But it's been a few weeks, so now the scars have built up. No, I think it's funny. We'll find the archive. Before we get to tears... And before we get to talking about your Atlantic article about what the Democrats are doing wrong, which might also lead to tears, we need to talk about what's happening on the Hill. By the time we have this podcast up, the state of play might have changed some, but biggest picture, here's what we got. There was a bipartisan deal. between Mike Johnson and the Democrats was scuttled by Elon's megalomania and possibly ketamine use. We don't know. Mike Johnson attempted to fix it by stripping down the deal a little bit and getting Daddy Trump on board ahead of time, which probably should have done the first time, gotten approval from Daddy. But even still, 38 Republicans voted against it.
They're taking a third swing this morning. The last I saw, Florida Rep. Annapolina Luna said that they are not negotiating with Democrats, which means they're going to need to get every single Republican on board. And boy, I don't see that as very likely. But I'm wondering what your takeaways are from the shit show over on Capitol Hill and the possible government shutdown.
I will say it's the first time since the election, as I watch this unfold, I'm like, oh, I'm You know, everything's going to be horrible for sure, but kind of fun to watch. Funny and horrible. Funny and horrible. I mean, look, they... Kind of like love it or leave it. I've told this to friends who were like, you know, maybe it's not so bad that Donald Trump is running the country. Wait, hold on. Which friends are those? You know, I have some friends who were like, I voted for Kamala Harris, but the Democrats do suck. You have to know that, you know, and maybe, maybe it's, I don't want four years of Donald Trump, but maybe it's not the end of the world. Maybe the other leaders of the other countries will be scared by him because he's so crazy, you know, that kind of thing.
And I'm like, here's the thing. Donald Trump is, he might have some political genius to him. He's an idiot, right? And when you have a bunch of idiots running things who don't know what they're doing, that's not going to lead to good outcomes for anyone. And that's sort of what we're starting to see here. Why did Elon Musk blow up the deal? Who knows? Did he see a tweet somewhere that pissed him off? Did he see some misinformation? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. He's probably scrolling through his platform, saw something that got him mad, fired off a tweet, and then boom, whole deal blows up, government shuts down. For what? We don't know. There's no rhyme or reason to any of this. No ideology behind it.
There's no, it's just, you know, it's just breaking things as we go.
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