Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying he would. Their shock over his recklessness is intensifying the crash. Meanwhile, a trio of administration fools trying to defend the tariffs—Lutnick, Bessent, and Hassett—showed there is no grand design to the trade war, White House infighting is getting hot enough that even Elon is subtweeting Trump, and the folks we elected over on the Hill could actually do something to try to stop the market carnage. Plus, new reporting on our government's kidnapping of migrants, Republicans in North Carolina are trying to steal a supreme court seat, and where is JD Vance?

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

show notes

JVL on the end of the American Age
Lauren on the backlash against Dems in major law firms who are bending the knee
60 Minutes segment on migrants sent to the Salvadoran penal colony
Tim's 'Bulwark Take' responding to the 60 Minutes report
Tim talking with AEI's Stan Veuger about Trump's terrible tariff math
The book, "The Captive Mind" by Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz

Navel-gazing

Getting Hammered

The Importance of Weights in the Gym

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