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Tim Miller
Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the Bulwark here just got off MSNBC with Chris Jansen, who's just the best. We were talking about how Jeff Bezos is trying to kind of nudge out Elon Musk and get more government contracts for his Blue Origin program. We talked about all the ways that he is doing that, including inviting Trump to his wedding this weekend, which I could not give a fuck less about, by the way. And they're doing it in Venice and just let the people of Venice be okay. I want to play the clip for you. I want to kind of revise and extend my remarks. It's daytime msnbc, so, you know, we're doing news. I didn't get to everything. I wanted to get to just about how grotesque Bezos's behavior is. So I want to play the clip for you. And then on the backside, I am going to go off a little bit, so stick around for that.
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Chris Jansen
Secretary Hegseth criticized that initial assessment, saying, look, it came out only a day and a half after the actual strikes, and yet Donald Trump's assessment that the sites were obliterated came even sooner. It came that night when he spoke to the American people. What do you make of Secretary Hegseth's update this morning?
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Tim Miller
Yeah, yeah, look, just the lack of seriousness of Secretary Hegseth and just this feeling that you've got to butter up President Trump and you've got to make him feel like he was right and you've got to make him feel strong, like we're living in some country where you have a king or a dictator who needs to be sucked up to. It just it feels un American and unseriousness and unserious, rather. And you can see the contrast just this morning in the press briefings between the secretary of Defense and General Kaine, who gave a detailed, thoughtful analysis of what we know and don't know about the extent of the damage with regards to the nuclear facilities. And so it's possible to do it. You. We've seen it. You saw it in Trump 1.0, where for all of my criticisms of it, there were some serious people, you know, like General Mattis, that, you know, did not play along with this reality show. And unfortunately, in this term, like, you have this very serious issue. We're dealing with life or death. We're dealing with nuclear weapons, with war, with geopolitics, and the fact that you have to have a secretary of defense go out on TV and like, berate the media like their children and do all this puffery about the President. To me, it shows a lot of insecurity and just, like, a lack of seriousness in Pentagon. All right, so we covered the basics there. Yeah. I just. In general, this makes me feel bad about our society that, like, this is how things are working. It is. It feels very feudalist. You know, not the space part, but, like, the rich oligarchs have to go to the leader and beg and gain his favor and suck up to him. It's like, it isn't Ayn Rand capitalism, let me tell you that much. There's a. There's another level of grossness that I just wasn't able to get to in the time allotted there, and that is the. Jeff Bezos still owns the Washington Post. Last I checked, he's doing a $40 million documentary on Melania for Amazon. At a moment where nobody's getting political documentaries greenlit because people are worried about getting involved in politics. The one that they are doing is what I'm sure will be a lavish, you know, ode to the great Melania. So Jeff Bezos is suckling up to Melania, doing free propaganda for her at his own, on his own dime, his own company's dime. He's inviting Donald Trump to his second wedding in Venice. He is going to the White House. They are his. His team is meeting with Susie Wiles. He's meeting with Trump. He's calling him. And you own the newspaper that's supposed to be holding this guy to account. Like, where you're firing a bunch of opinion writers who are anti Trump. That is grotesque. That is a conflict. Like, that's not just a conflict. How can you own a media outlet and claim it is defending democracy or even prioritizing accuracy or holding the people in power to account when meanwhile, you're doing everything you can to just suck on the little orange toes of the man in power because you want more money for your space project. How much money is Jeff Bezos worth? Pull this up. Let's just. Jeff Bezos net worth. 227 billion. 227 billion. Let's see, what's Amazon value right now? 2.2 trillion. You need government contracts. You got to suck up to Donald Trump. You got to humiliate yourself and suck up to Donald Trump for government money. Like, you can't go raise it. You can't spend it. You need to suckle on the teat of government and Donald Trump, and it's just pathetic. It's embarrassing. Not really how things should be working in this country. To me, I find the whole thing makes me the whole thing makes me gag. Everything about Jeff Bezos makes me gag. And I say this is somebody who loves Amazon. I'm not an Amazon person. I love Amazon. Great innovation, great company. You've gone too far. You've let it all get to your head. Okay? Like this whole thing that you need to be the spaceman now and you need all of us to be the ones to subsidize your little dick space dreams. No. I'm against it. That's a no for me. And I find the whole thing really, really gross. So there you go. You will not be getting Bezos wedding updates here on the Bulwark YouTube feed. I'm sure there are other places on the Internet if you care what people are wearing to that monstrosity. I don't. So if you want, though, more passionate takes on the news of the day, we'll see you all soon.