Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
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Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We're in carnival season. I'm in my James Carville rugby shirt. It's Muses Thursday. I'm delighted to be here today with a veteran Republican strategist, an OG Never Trumper. He worked for McCain, Schwarzenegger, Romney, Jeb. You might have heard of them. He's co-host of Hacks on Tap and co-director of Center for the Political Future at USC. He also runs the EV Policy Project, an effort to end the partisan divide over electric vehicles. By now you've figured out it's Mike Murphy. What's going on, man? Hey, man. Good to see you, Tim. Good to see you. It's been too long. Yeah, yeah. I also have a bonus segment for everybody in segment two, so stick around with Michael Fanone. It was going to be a YouTube-only thing, but Fanone was so good yesterday that the audio people got to hear it too. So stick around for Fanone. Because I know show business, I'm going to start with something here that both of us hate to admit and that the audience will hate to hear.
Does that sound like a good way to start the podcast? Yeah, yeah. Reach for the mute button, America. But... Did you watch any of the cabinet meeting, the four pay-per-view cabinet meeting yesterday? Did you catch any of it?
I watched about 20 seconds on video before I started thinking about, I started thinking very bad thoughts. I mean, seeing Elon, that man child bouncing around in his Nazi tank commander outfit in the cabinet room of the United States, it just, it snapped me. So I couldn't take any more.
All right, well, good. Maybe our listeners will like to hear your opinion because I was about to give a wrong thought, which was the substance was gross. We'll get into that. But boy, I thought the PR was pretty good yesterday. And I just think that Trump... Being in that room, it had kind of a question time British vibe. He was insulting J.D. Vance over in the cuck chair. He was taking all the questions. He seemed like he was kind of in command of the topics. He didn't seem lost. Obviously, he says crazy stuff all the time. It's Trump. But, you know, you have wall-to-wall TV coverage. He's announcing things that I think are good. Again, substance aside, good marketing. Like, five million bucks if you want to come to the country.
We'll pay down the debt with five million dollar gold cards. Again, it's Huckster stuff. I just, I was like... it's hard to imagine Biden doing that. It's hard to imagine some of the other folks doing that. And like, you can, even though I find him just like you disgusting, I can only handle that 20 seconds. Like it was a moment where I was like, I can see why people at least can be conned by this.
Yeah, no, look, he, he is very fluent in the complicated language of moron, which many politicians don't speak. Well, they think they're getting in trouble for it. So he feels like an authentic brush of fresh air because he gets there and he does his drunk uncle thing. You know what else I don't like? Limousines. I'm getting rid of all the limousines. J.D., lose the limos. We're squaring this place up. So it's good performative bullshit. And for his world that hates politics, hates Washington, hates the establishment, kind of hates reading, writing, and arithmetic, it plays great. So, yeah, they're hitting a lot of doubles at that. The thing is, this is a long game. And it's pretty hard. As you know, as president, you get a pretty easy first 100 days.
But then stuff starts counting. And if you deconstruct this, the guy was elected to fix the economy because people perceived, and that's all that counts in politics, that the economy was better when he was president for all his flaws than it was under Biden. It was old and crazy, inflation, blah, blah, blah. So... We'll see how it runs out. But in the short term, doing his card tricks and, hey, Elon, I want you to, the toll booths, get rid of them. Who wants to wait at a toll? Right, fellas? And they all clap like chimps. It's a good show. But the long game is the existential live or die in politics. And the long game, they're doing almost everything, in my view, wrong.
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