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Merc's avatar

Listening to this interview and the quality of this person I’m convinced that a smart HR strategy would be to hire every person that Trump administration has purged and replaced with one of their INCOMPETENT GRIFTING MAGA STOOGES -

In firing people, Trump is serving as a talent scout for great people

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Michele's avatar

“the girlies are fighting reality show”

“some girl with purple hair walking next to a military officer”

We are able to recognize the invasiveness of patriarchy in our language, and we should also continue to actively remove it.

Much like we have removed other demeaning words like “gay” as an insult or “retard” as dumb…etc thanks!

I continue to greatly appreciate The Bulwark.

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

Tim, Thanks for having Michael and Ben on to impart their experience and knowledge on these important topics. As Michael was speaking I had a ever increasing dread come over me. I kept thinking, if we have anyone of a dozen bad things that could possibly happen tomorrow occur, we are not fully prepared to handle them. When he mentioned the abandonment of pursuing white collar crime, it was like Hoover saying we don't pursue bank robbers. White collar criminals must be celebrating like it's Christmas. This was all very predictable once Trump got in because they are not working on the types of criminal behaviors Trump excels at. You know, sexual assaults, fraud, money laundering, bribery and so on and so forth. The Republicans in the Senate committed a crime when they confirmed Patel. They make Benedict Arnold look good. The only question I would have for Michael is, do you really think there's nothing there in the Epstein case? Really? No seriously? Now Ben made mostly intelligent and inciteful comments on the topics in question. The only issue that bothers me is when he uses the phrase "give him credit" in reference to Trump on Ukraine. Credit for waiting 6+ months to do the right thing while innocent Ukranians are dying. No thanks, he is complicit in Putin's war crimes. I agree about the 50 day ultimatum. It will be even worse if after the fifty days, Trump let's Putin set the terms like keeping all the occupied territories, etc. Thanks again...for nothing. Trump, America's Nero.

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Marianna M.'s avatar

There may be more they/thems of the NSA that were fired or pushed out than you think, because NSA'ers are also notoriously introverted so they're less likely to come on the show and more likely to be quoted in stories like this one from April... https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-intel-chat-leak-chris-rufo

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Jessica Margolin's avatar

Travel before babies start trying to stand.

Once they insist on standing they will also want to pat the head of the bald guy in the seat in front of them, but are basically puppies so you will spend hours catching their hand and relocating it away from some stranger's head.

(Or get the bulkhead seat and face them frontwards.)

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graceg's avatar

I loved the interview with Feinberg, and found it comforting as federal worker. It's meaningful to hear from civil servants who fought the good fight, tried to keep their jobs, but ultimately did what was right for them/their families. Thanks for having him on, Tim!

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Michael Sanregret's avatar

Nothing makes me angrier than the way Trump tries to destroy honest people for doing their jobs, from Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman to Michael Feinberg. I really want to become an election worker. There needs to be enough people doing the right thing that they can't get all of us.

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

When FBI agents trained in counterintelligence are reassigned to babysit deportation vans, you know the empire’s not just in decline—it’s having a full-blown identity crisis in a Walmart parking lot.

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s cosplay authoritarianism.

Dan Bongino and Kash Patel gutting the Bureau is like putting the cast of Duck Dynasty in charge of a nuclear submarine: loud, underqualified, and weirdly proud of not reading the manual.

We don’t need more loyalty tests. We need a functioning democracy. And maybe a few agents who still know what the Fourth Amendment is.

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Jeff Biss's avatar

Conservatives are a cancer in our liberal society and must be treated as such. The conservatives on the SCOTUS have unconstitutionally "revoked" the unenumerated and innate right of women to control their own lives and bodies, thus showing just how criminal and treasonous these people are well before this regime's wasting tax money on detention centers rather than on courts to provide due process.

Conservatism is a rot and must be excised.

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Barbara Novak's avatar

Good show. What’s the name of the song at the end?

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Bruce Lawrence's avatar

Sitting in an empty office, not getting any phone calls or emails sounds like my dream job. Retirement with full salary, essentially. The only way to make it better would be permission to work remotely.

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Jeff Biss's avatar

You'd get bored, fast. Trump has the mentality to handle that though.

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Bruce Lawrence's avatar

I doubt that. I just turned 65 and am looking forward to retirement. I do not expect to have any trouble staying busy - and, if I do, I'll find a volunteer gig.

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Rich Wingerter's avatar

I give Criminal Trump no credit whatsoever on Ukraine. If he'd backed Ukraine for all these years, the war would already be over.

His relationship with Vladimir Putin makes him a fellow war criminal.

Democrats in Congress should put forward a big, beautiful military and civilian aid bill for Ukraine. Put the Republicans on the horns of a dilemma. Ukraine is far more popular in the U.S. than Trump. Do you back Trump and have your numbers go down further? Or, do you back Ukraine at the distress of Criminal Trump?

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Rich Wingerter's avatar

The mechanism of accountability is for the public to erase every Republican from Congress that are up for election in 2026. Get rid of them all.

That's the way to send a message and change the way this government is operating.

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Hey Mama Warrior's avatar

Tim - great guests and discussions. We will get less safe with each passing year that these people are in office. While garden, construction workers and grandmothers are being put in concentration camps, crime will run rampant, and as stated in a comment above, another pandemic and/or attack on home soil will be missed. And as for research, democracy, ethics and altruism buh-bye.

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Parrhizzia's avatar

If you're confused how the hallowed FBI could go fascist quite so easily, to turn on their own, just ask a progressive. Any progressive will do. No, not a liberal or a centrist - sometimes we get confused with them. An actual progressive. Someone who didn't respond to the Black Lives Matter protest by saying "we should give MORE money to the police".

This is not surprising. This is not shocking. This is not confusing.

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Harper Thorpe's avatar

WHEN MAGA KNOWS HE’S LYING

They’ll know he’s a heathen who wasn’t sent by God; a pedophile & Epstein client; a Russian asset & traitor; a lousy dealmaker with a low IQ; racist, grifter & coward, who’d sacrifice country, allies, & family to enrich or save himself!

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Bruce Lawrence's avatar

MAGA won't believe any of that until they hear it on Fox. I'm not holding my breath.

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Harper Thorpe's avatar

Normally, I would agree but leading far-right conspiracy pushers are creating pressure on Trump, including Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, etc.

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