George W. Bush came into office and he used his discretion to divert resources away from

anti-terrorism, and I think it was towards counterintelligence. And then there was a huge terrorist

attack in the United States, and they undid that. No, pornography. Oh, is it pornography?

Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. This week, Trump blinked, as a lot of people suspected he would, and reduced the embargo-level tariffs he'd imposed on China a month ago. In exchange for a month-long crisis, a still-looming supply shortage, lost jobs, lost wealth. We got

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So the trade war's over for 90 days.

And it's like, I mean, I think if he had just done this where we're at now on day one,

everyone would have just called it a trade war because that's basically what it is.

Well, actually, it's worth talking about, right?

Because so when Liberation Day happened, like one take that was flying

around was like, I mean, both from like Trump fans and from critics was like, this is what he

ran on, you know, as like Magabusterism or like, you know, he told us he was going to do this and

...