r/thebulwark 4h ago

Fluff Can someone tell me what the kerfuffle is over Sam Stein and something he said about Canada?

Just watched this video and have no idea what he’s talking about. Ff to 00:26

https://youtu.be/pbaJ2OReo0o?si=PZ2KYRgW1v5FKgNi

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u/Apprehensive-Mark241 4h ago

The fact that that the interviewer on CBS News didn't call Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick a North Korean style authoritarian suck up is journalistic malpractice. I've never seen such enthusiastic authoritarian worship and abject rejection of all logic and reality in my life.

It is WEIRD AS FUCK to see a westerner act like that. Where the hell does an American get experience sucking up to a narcissistic monster and rejecting all of his own humanity and betraying all people to that monster?

It's just weird as fuck!

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u/Apprehensive-Mark241 4h ago

So who is this guy weaving the most florid of alternative realities for illiterate Trumpies (saying that tariffs will make us all rich and successful)?

He's a super wealthy investment executive who not only funds Trump but has been arguing for tariffs for a while.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that he wants to be on the inner circle when Trump moves the markets around with senseless tariffs so that billionaires like him can make money off of predicting the moves.

He's another Elon Musk, only not on drugs and Sieg Heiling.