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The Bulwark Podcast

Anne Applebaum: Musk Buys Russia’s Lies

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The billionaire was duped by Russian nuclear propaganda, but he's not the only one in the West who worries about provoking Russia by helping Ukraine. Plus, Putin's role in the far-right echo chamber, and why Romney stood up to Trump. Anne Applebaum joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.

show notes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sykes. It is September 15th, 2003. It is Friday. We have almost made it to the weekend. A lot going on, obviously we have a major UAW strike. We have the indictment of Hunter Biden by the Deep State Biden Department of Justice.

0:27.0

That won't change the narrative at all.

0:28.3

Apparently Kevin McCarthy's week is not going well.

0:30.8

He's dropping F-bomb's bombs daring members of his own conference to you

0:35.0

know file that motion to vacate just file the F in motion and meanwhile back in my

0:39.5

home state of Wisconsin we continue to have this, I would say rather a complicated situation.

0:47.0

The Republicans in the state senate just voted to fire the nonpartisan election

0:51.8

chief, a woman named Megan Wolf who's apparently as far as I can tell respected by everyone has bipartisan support

0:58.4

But she got caught up in the whole big lie and apparently MAGA demanded a head on a spike and it turned out to be

1:04.8

Megan Wolf. This goes to court. There will be litigation about all of this and that

1:10.0

could get even messier because as we know Republicans are still flirting with the idea

1:15.6

of actually impeaching a state Supreme Court justice before she's even ruled on a major

1:20.2

case. Now if you subscribe to my daily newsletter, Morning Shots, you'll see the

1:25.2

headline which is why Wisconsin Republicans might blink but why they might not. I

1:31.0

think they're beginning to realize what a disaster this will be for them

1:34.4

politically. The ads write themselves. There will be an absolute firestorm of reaction,

1:40.6

followed by lots of outside money and of course money

1:43.9

marvelously focuses the mind of Wisconsin Republicans including the

1:47.6

Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Voss who earlier this week seemed to back away from the impeachment and

1:54.0

proposing a compromise which was promptly shot down so he's now appointing a I

2:01.1

don't know what get too deep into, sort of a blue ribbon task force, which is, you know,

2:06.1

when politicians don't want to actually do something, they appoint a blue ribbon task force.

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