Sarah Longwell: No One Should Trust this Government
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Happy Daylight Savings Time. Finally, I'm in my element. Okay, we have light at night and I appreciate that. We've kicked out Bill Kristol this Monday. He was getting a little too excited singing Barbara Ann over the weekend. That's only a joke for people who are paying attention to politics in 2008. It's not true. That's a John McCain joke. We have a guest for a different reason. She's the publisher of the Bullwark, you know, or she's the host of the Focus Group podcast, The Illegal News, with Sarah Longwell. She's now the best-selling author of a book that isn't going to even be out until September. But... She's a front of the class person and wanted to do even better on the pre-sales.
And so she's here on this podcast. You should pre-order it right now. Link is in the bio. How to Eat an Elephant One Voter at a Time is the name of the book. It's Sarah Longwell. What is up? Hey, do you want to apologize to me for saying I definitely shouldn't write this book? I don't, opposite. And now I kind of feel like you, you want to get first on the New York Times list. I got second behind Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and you want to be first. And that was really the main reason behind the book. And I think it was probably about me. Yeah, I was just going to say, I know you think everything in the world is about you and competition with you, but actually, actually I wrote it for the Bulwark community who, by the way, they ride so hard for us.
All I had to tell them was if I sold 20,000 copies, Maybe I'd let JVL moderate a focus group. And boom, they were all over it. Can't thank them enough. I just got to sit this weekend on my birthday weekend and see my book become a bestseller on the strength of pre-orders from the board community. So thanks to all of you for doing that. I do want to be number one. I am number one right now in all of the political categories just in front of Senator Kennedy. Oh. who has a book, apparently. If you watch the Amazon chart of Sarah going up to Wankings, it was kind of like the gas prices chart. It was just like straight up. It was like the gas prices chart. Straight up. The book is How to Eat an Elephant. We'll talk about it at the end, about why.
And you should get it just because it's Sarah and she's great and you'll love it. It doesn't matter what it's about, but we'll tell you more about why it matters, what's important about it at the end. But we have news to get to. We're in a war. We are. So I guess we're going to spend a lot of time talking about that here at the top. A couple of news items from the weekend. We had the seventh American killed in action as an army soldier in Saudi Arabia. It also announced another Marine infantryman, 19-year-old Kevin Melendez, died. But it didn't seem like that was in the killed in action category, so we don't exactly know what happened with that. Last night, me and JBL jumped on a live stream. You can follow those on our Substack or YouTube.
When we get riled up about something, now we get on and talk about it live. And this was about the oil prices skyrocketing. It reached a peak of close to $120 a barrel. And it's down to about 100 right now. Sarah, I want to play for you a little audio to kind of contextualize that price per barrel. And then we can talk about that and the other ramifications for the war. Are you a watcher of Landman? Do you watch Landman? I don't watch Landman, although I probably should. I think it's a show for me. I just haven't gotten to it yet. Well, here is Billy Bob Thornton and his character Tommy Norris, who's an oil executive in Texas, explaining to a young, doe-eyed lawyer what the target oil price is and what the implications are.
Let's listen. Well, you want oil to live above 60 but below 90. And don't get me wrong, we're still printing money at 90, but... Gas gets up over $3.50 a gallon, it starts to pinch. It hits $100. Every product in America has to readjust its price. Every product in America has to readjust its price.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–7:47
2
How does the U.S. government's trustworthiness affect public perception?
7:47–10:27
3
What recent events have escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran?
10:27–17:30
4
How do rising oil prices impact the American economy and public opinion?
17:30–24:01
5
What are the implications of Trump's relationship with Netanyahu?
24:01–31:06
6
How is public opinion shifting regarding U.S. support for Israel?
31:06–41:23
7
What role does anti-Semitism play in the current political climate?
41:23–50:11
8
What strategies does Sarah Longwell suggest for Democrats moving forward?
50:11–1:04:28
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