Tariff-ying Times with Pete Buttigieg
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the weekly show podcast. My name is Jon Stewart. It is, I'm telling you this, April 8th. I always tell you now, the day that we're taping this, because of the velocity by which change occurs in this nation, which is becoming great again. By leaps and bounds, you may say to yourself, okay, occasionally we take a step or two back, but clearly... in the right direction. So this comes out Thursday. So by then we could be at war with China or more likely, I think President Trump will do the thing that he always does. And I use this analogy with Rahm Emanuel on the show, but I think it's instructive to say it again here. I used to have a dog who would eat things on his own volition. This was not, he was not encouraged to do so.
He would eat grass and sticks and whatever he could find outside inevitably He had a delicate stomach. He is my dog after all. That's how we knew we were each other's soulmates. The way I process lactose is the way he processed everything that he would eat from the outside. He would become nauseous. He would vomit. And then before I had a chance to get the towels, he would lap it up, clean it up. And then he would look at me like, hey, huh, buddy? I did your favor, right? Can I get a treat? And I would always think like, no, that was your, you made a mess. And yes, you did clean it up. But I got to tell you something. You didn't clean it completely up. You left damage, residue, things like that. And that is what Trump will do.
He will come out and be like, oh, the nuclear bomb I dropped on the economy, it worked. Vietnam has decided that they're going to make a deal like nobody's ever seen before. And that's going to be the way that this thing off-ramps. You would imagine, because these guys are, I mean, between the signal chats and the trillions in the economy and firing people at the FAA and nuclear commissions... they are forgetting, uh, the first rule of authoritarian regimes, which is you kind of have to get shit done, right? That's, I think that's the whole point, isn't it? We, we let them disappear people cause they do shit, right? Is that, is that how things go? Then you get to wear, uh, I went over to come out and wear the jacket with the epaulets or whatever it is that those guys like to do come up with the nickname, but you gotta live up to that end of the bargain from what I understand. Uh, But it's been very interesting. And we've been spending a lot of time talking with some Democrats about where they see this thing going and their frustrations.
And there's someone that I really wanted to talk to about it because I find that he's so articulate and well-versed. He's been an executive as a mayor. He's been within administrations. He's well-versed in a lot of different aspects of it. And he's one of the few people who's able to articulate those experiences in such a great way. So I'm just going to get to our guest for today's program. Here he is. Ladies and gentlemen, our guest today, very excited, our former Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Pete Buttigieg is joining us now. Pete, look at you with the scruff. You're not working for a month or two and you're growing out the beard now?
You started it.
That is true.
Nice. What is... You know, I'm always curious... Leaving the government in the way that you guys had, right? It's an incredibly intense experience to work with when you're in the government at that higher level and you're managing things at that higher level. And then that moment when you kind of pack up and leave, what is that feeling like? I assume in some ways, almost maybe like the experience you had leaving the military or you know, you're sort of now, you've been running at 120 miles an hour, and then suddenly it's,
Yeah. Yeah. It's funny you mentioned it. I mean, redeployment's the only thing I could compare it to professionally that was so sudden and so total. I mean, this is a department with 55,000 people. Anything happening anywhere in the country or sometimes anywhere in the world could be on your desk in a matter of minutes. And then one day, you know, it's 12 o'clock and you're done.
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