Chapter 1: What challenges is Trump facing in the current political climate?
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The electrical grid and other infrastructure were already in very, very poor shape. They were at their life's end prior to the hurricanes. And now virtually everything has been wiped out. We're literally starting from scratch.
But Governor González Colón thinks she knows better. Innovative companies ran to meet the challenge to rebuild Puerto Rico's grid. Now she's blowing up a valid contract to siphon money back to her closest political advisors. President Trump puts real businesses to work instead of fueling government waste. Don't let the governor send Puerto Rico back to square one. Support the rule of law.
Visit PuertoRicoInvestment.org. Paid for by the Committee for Puerto Rican Investment, Inc. Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. By popular demand for Christmas, we've brought to you our in-house Ebenezer. He's a staff writer at The Atlantic and professor emeritus at U.S. Naval War College. His books include The Death of Expertise. It's Tom Nichols.
How are you doing, sir? You're a powerful speaker, sir. I wonder you don't go into parliament. We needed a little Scrooge, you know? If you want my corn, gentlemen, you'll have to meet my price.
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Chapter 2: How does Trump's new fleet of warships reflect his leadership style?
top of the ocean instead of a submarine under it you're a target of of course the first thing an enemy is going to just say well i guess we go back to the strategies of the 70s and the 80s where the first thing you do is you nuke the surface ships that have nukes on them it's just dumb it's so dumb and on so many levels as the french say it's so stupid it makes my teeth hurt
You're also one of the few people that are suffering through his press conferences these days. I'm just curious if you could give us a review. You mentioned that it was slushy. You called him slushy. Yeah, he did. It was the I don't know. I try to be a responsible commenter. I don't know.
you know people they hypothesize about dentures or implants or whatever but there was a lot of this kind of you know kind of speedy slushy and i was like you know this is not if this is meant to like reassure people that the president's in good health and and his cognitive abilities are where they ought to be this is not working he did not seem to be in good health first of all the reporters in there asked
not great questions because it's mostly compliant bunch, you know, but one of them did ask a really good question. She said, what is your end game with Venezuela? You know, you're doing all this stuff. What's the, that's a, that's a important question for the American people to get an answer to. And he kind of, it's like somebody hit play on the wrong track and, Of a recorder, right?
He went, well, you know, because our borders and Joe Biden. Firstly, he can't get through anything now without mentioning Joe Biden. It's just not possible. I guess, you know, being beaten by Biden is just never going to leave him. But he launched into our borders and they're sending people from prisons and mental institutions. I'm like, wait a minute.
This is the answer he usually gives about, you know, Mexico or El Salvador or Honduras or whatever it is. And all she said is, what are you trying to do with this military activity against Venezuela? And he kind of meandered off into mental hospitals and prisons. And I thought, oh, speaking of mental hospitals, as a former staff guy, you know, I was not a body man, but I was a staffer.
That's when your boss has gone off the rails and, you know, you want to take them by the. Oh. very important meeting. Got to, got to, got to roll. I never had to do that. My boss was a great guy. I never had to do that, but I know that feeling, you know, of watching politicians go off the rails and you thinking, get, get in there, get it, somebody get in there. And he just couldn't help himself.
And the thing went all over the place. It was really, it was a very haywire performance. And I, I don't think it's going to reassure anybody. Do you know what the end game is in Venezuela? It kind of feels like they just think that they're going to keep that eventually Maduro is going to get tired of having his tankers get intercepted and that he's just going to say, you know what?
It's enough for me. I'm going to go live in the Assad suite in Moscow. And you guys can take it from here. That seems to be the plan. Well, or, and here's the more, here's the darker and more nefarious idea. I can't believe I'm saying this because I'm actually on the same page as, wait for it, Rand Paul. All right. Pretty rare.
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