For some reason, the president thinks he is winning the news cycle by occupying a great American city and ordering his agents to violently confront U.S.
I generally love the pod, but don't comment. I was getting infuriated with this one as you two were discussing Trump's motivations for creating a paramilitary force beholden to himself and it seemed as if you were trying really hard to not say that the reason is that he wants to have his own paramilitary force ready to drive down election participation in blue cities in red states. What's up with that?
This is why all the Dems need to be defeated. They have proven to us. They are incapable of fighting for our rights our freedoms against this tyrannical fascist government.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP GOT US HERE! Corporatized Democrats got us here.
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We need a bigger pro democracy group that does the things that the Democratic leadership are unwilling to do in order to pressure change.
A shadow party. One that spends its time in real investigations. One that would have had charges brought against trump the day after he stopped being president for Russian collusion and then for his part in the insurrection. One that would have been pressuring Garland.
One that right now would be demanding honesty! One that listens to people, not the ACLU.
One that PLANS ahead for contingencies instead of waiting and whining when things happen. One that works all year and doesn’t wait until three weeks before elections to waste a billion dollars on ads.
The DNC - here's a plan. Try honesty! Its never been tried before.
1. Apologize to every Democrat for covering up for Biden's OBVIOUS condition.
2. Apologize to Harris for not letting her criticize Biden's OBVIOUS FAILURE on the border. Vow to control the borders! This probably cost the last election.
3. Rewrite the platform, this time ignoring the elitist ACLU and stop thinking that America is ready to pass a Sociology test OR that you can FORCE the electorate. This purity test loses us millions of votes.
4. Most Americans want abortion to be legal, 80% of those Americans want limits on abortion, why not respect them? Put a 12 week limit unless there are extenuating circumstances. Refusing to compromise loses us millions of votes.
5. Reform and restructure student loans instead of screaming FREE TUITION. It loses us millions of votes.
6. Most Americans do not want trans boys competing in girl's sports. Why not be realistic and fair about this? It affects less than a dozen people. It loses us millions of votes.
7. $25,000 for a down payment? Do you not know that it would only pour gas on the inflationary fire? Build more Senior housing, older people are tired of homeownership and upkeep. There are waiting lists everywhere. They pay for themselves.
8. Start wanting to WIN instead of being high and mighty and self righteously right. BTW, Bill Clinton seduced a young 21 year old girl under White House surveillance when he was 47 Where the hell was the outrage? Do you really think that Hillary didn’t know?. It was only one of MANY other allegations against him from young women.
9.. Have a convention and speak to all of this... Promise honesty
80% of Americans do NOT want a 12-week limit. Nice try, dude. "Can't we all just agree...to do it my way?" And who defines "extenuating circumstances?" Because in case you've been asleep since Dobbs, the entire conversation has been about extenuating circumstances and the SHOCKING bad faith from the Republican party on same. (Bleeding out isn't enough, organ damage isn't enough, loss of fertility isn't enough, we just have to keep letting you get closer and closer to killing us until you're finally satisfied. Morally. Personally. FOH.) You managed to feign reasonability for 2-1/2 points. Bye now.
I just want to say this: the last year of the Biden administration and the election of Trump left me in the wilderness. I could not go back to mainstream media, and I found Substack. After originally taking a scattershot approach to what I listened to, I quickly became a Bulwark junkie. It started with Tim, Sarah, and JVL, but now I’m in for all of it: Sam’s interrupting, Egger’s insights, the fingering trio, Sonny Bunch (who knew he has a Nobel!), Bill Kristol (who I had many, many arguments in my head with back in the day), to your new additions, Catherine Rampell and Mark Hertling. You all have put together something special and I’m here for it! Thank you!
Sonny was fully Team DGAF about the Thomas and Alito corruption, Sarah and JVL were appalled, and dude doubled and tripled down. TNL ep sometime in the last year, I think.
Jess BakerPLEASE - the rest of the country needs to attend to what is happening in Minneapolis. An ICE agent has murdered Renee Good - an unarmed protester. The Trump administration will not investigate the actions of the ICE agent, but have stated they are investigating the spouse of Renee Good. The illegal occupation of Minneapolis by federal agents continues with assaults by tear gas, pepper spray, flash bangs, beatings, people being tor
PLEASE - the rest of our country needs to attend to what is happening in Mineapolis. An ICE agent has murdered Renee Good. The trump adminsration is not investigating the action of the ICE agent but have stated theirt intent to investigate the spouse of Renee Good!
The illegal occupation of Minneapolis by federal agents continues with people being dragged from their vehicles and beaten; private homes, often with children, entered with the use of battering rams; tear gas, pepper spray, flash bangs, and rubber bullets used indiscriminately against protesters, and public schools being raided in attempts to apprehend perceived illegal immigrants. All while residents of Minneapolis legally attempt to safeguard their families and neighbors, under duress.
We need the support of all allies from all 50 states of our United States to stand with us NOW, less we all cede our rights to the regime behind this incursion.n from vehicles, private homes entered by battering rams, and public schools raided. Residents of Minneapolis continue to peacefully and legally attempt to safe guard their families and neighbors, under duress. We need the support of allies in all states of our country to stand with us NOW, less we cede our rights nationally to the regime behind this movement.
Tim, you ARE that protester for us. We see your righteous indignation, frustration, and moral outrage and say YAAASSSS WE ARE SEEEEN WE ARE NOT CRAZY. :) Hang in there, buddies.
I am the last person who would get to this place, for a variety of professional and temperamental reasons, but I am so ready to tear this party apart with my teeth and claws. Fold the thing up like a pizza box, cram it in the trash, and light it.
Sooo...Lisbon is just a little bit further than Anchorage. Galway, maybe? (Lisbon: 5750km, 11:27 hr:min at 502km/hr; Anchorage: 5422km, 10:48 hr:min at 502km/hr). I think dude had some wrong math as he put 7.5 hours flight, and where I looked it was almost 11 hours (maybe forgot time zones?). Idk. Interestingly, Nuuk and Caracas are about the same (Nuuk: 3268km, 6:30 hr:min at 502km/hr; Caracas: 3305km, 6:35 hr:min at 502km/hr).
I'm wondering why our turbulent priest hasn't offended someone enough, in his 79 years, to find himself on the receiving end of an enthusiastic sendoff.
You guys had me rolling on the floor laughing about the food clip. Thank you! (possibly the chicken was road kill and the "piece" of broccoli came out of the grade school garbage bin...cuz the kids wouldn't eat it)
I generally love the pod, but don't comment. I was getting infuriated with this one as you two were discussing Trump's motivations for creating a paramilitary force beholden to himself and it seemed as if you were trying really hard to not say that the reason is that he wants to have his own paramilitary force ready to drive down election participation in blue cities in red states. What's up with that?
I know someone named Doug that was really disrespectful. Not all Dougs are good.
Hairy Phones? This sounds like the work of some merry prankster.
Tim & Sam Hello from Occupied MN. Thanks for the laughter at the end. Dark times call for dark humor.
This is why all the Dems need to be defeated. They have proven to us. They are incapable of fighting for our rights our freedoms against this tyrannical fascist government.
---------
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP GOT US HERE! Corporatized Democrats got us here.
---------
We need a bigger pro democracy group that does the things that the Democratic leadership are unwilling to do in order to pressure change.
A shadow party. One that spends its time in real investigations. One that would have had charges brought against trump the day after he stopped being president for Russian collusion and then for his part in the insurrection. One that would have been pressuring Garland.
One that right now would be demanding honesty! One that listens to people, not the ACLU.
One that PLANS ahead for contingencies instead of waiting and whining when things happen. One that works all year and doesn’t wait until three weeks before elections to waste a billion dollars on ads.
The DNC - here's a plan. Try honesty! Its never been tried before.
1. Apologize to every Democrat for covering up for Biden's OBVIOUS condition.
2. Apologize to Harris for not letting her criticize Biden's OBVIOUS FAILURE on the border. Vow to control the borders! This probably cost the last election.
3. Rewrite the platform, this time ignoring the elitist ACLU and stop thinking that America is ready to pass a Sociology test OR that you can FORCE the electorate. This purity test loses us millions of votes.
4. Most Americans want abortion to be legal, 80% of those Americans want limits on abortion, why not respect them? Put a 12 week limit unless there are extenuating circumstances. Refusing to compromise loses us millions of votes.
5. Reform and restructure student loans instead of screaming FREE TUITION. It loses us millions of votes.
6. Most Americans do not want trans boys competing in girl's sports. Why not be realistic and fair about this? It affects less than a dozen people. It loses us millions of votes.
7. $25,000 for a down payment? Do you not know that it would only pour gas on the inflationary fire? Build more Senior housing, older people are tired of homeownership and upkeep. There are waiting lists everywhere. They pay for themselves.
8. Start wanting to WIN instead of being high and mighty and self righteously right. BTW, Bill Clinton seduced a young 21 year old girl under White House surveillance when he was 47 Where the hell was the outrage? Do you really think that Hillary didn’t know?. It was only one of MANY other allegations against him from young women.
9.. Have a convention and speak to all of this... Promise honesty
REBRAND the Party.
Pressure leadership.
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80% of Americans do NOT want a 12-week limit. Nice try, dude. "Can't we all just agree...to do it my way?" And who defines "extenuating circumstances?" Because in case you've been asleep since Dobbs, the entire conversation has been about extenuating circumstances and the SHOCKING bad faith from the Republican party on same. (Bleeding out isn't enough, organ damage isn't enough, loss of fertility isn't enough, we just have to keep letting you get closer and closer to killing us until you're finally satisfied. Morally. Personally. FOH.) You managed to feign reasonability for 2-1/2 points. Bye now.
Keep losing elections, enjoy fascism.
Is this what it means to call oneself a "digital creator"? 👎👎
STFU
How original a creation.
Can’t we get all the groups who started podcasts and media groups to start a third party? Obviously the two we have are gone.
I just want to say this: the last year of the Biden administration and the election of Trump left me in the wilderness. I could not go back to mainstream media, and I found Substack. After originally taking a scattershot approach to what I listened to, I quickly became a Bulwark junkie. It started with Tim, Sarah, and JVL, but now I’m in for all of it: Sam’s interrupting, Egger’s insights, the fingering trio, Sonny Bunch (who knew he has a Nobel!), Bill Kristol (who I had many, many arguments in my head with back in the day), to your new additions, Catherine Rampell and Mark Hertling. You all have put together something special and I’m here for it! Thank you!
Sonny was fully Team DGAF about the Thomas and Alito corruption, Sarah and JVL were appalled, and dude doubled and tripled down. TNL ep sometime in the last year, I think.
ETA:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-truth-has-no-value
32:15 mark
Just so we know who we're gassing up here.
Jess BakerPLEASE - the rest of the country needs to attend to what is happening in Minneapolis. An ICE agent has murdered Renee Good - an unarmed protester. The Trump administration will not investigate the actions of the ICE agent, but have stated they are investigating the spouse of Renee Good. The illegal occupation of Minneapolis by federal agents continues with assaults by tear gas, pepper spray, flash bangs, beatings, people being tor
PLEASE - the rest of our country needs to attend to what is happening in Mineapolis. An ICE agent has murdered Renee Good. The trump adminsration is not investigating the action of the ICE agent but have stated theirt intent to investigate the spouse of Renee Good!
The illegal occupation of Minneapolis by federal agents continues with people being dragged from their vehicles and beaten; private homes, often with children, entered with the use of battering rams; tear gas, pepper spray, flash bangs, and rubber bullets used indiscriminately against protesters, and public schools being raided in attempts to apprehend perceived illegal immigrants. All while residents of Minneapolis legally attempt to safeguard their families and neighbors, under duress.
We need the support of all allies from all 50 states of our United States to stand with us NOW, less we all cede our rights to the regime behind this incursion.n from vehicles, private homes entered by battering rams, and public schools raided. Residents of Minneapolis continue to peacefully and legally attempt to safe guard their families and neighbors, under duress. We need the support of allies in all states of our country to stand with us NOW, less we cede our rights nationally to the regime behind this movement.
Tim, you ARE that protester for us. We see your righteous indignation, frustration, and moral outrage and say YAAASSSS WE ARE SEEEEN WE ARE NOT CRAZY. :) Hang in there, buddies.
Thanks for my guffaws re the broccoli piece, chicken, and tortilla and the OTHER item ...it felt so good to laugh.
Of course also for the analysis and outrage and company and news.....but boy I needed that cracking up.
We’re not even close to being the good guys anymore.
Democrats can't agree on what color the sky is. It is their toxic treat
I am the last person who would get to this place, for a variety of professional and temperamental reasons, but I am so ready to tear this party apart with my teeth and claws. Fold the thing up like a pizza box, cram it in the trash, and light it.
Sooo...Lisbon is just a little bit further than Anchorage. Galway, maybe? (Lisbon: 5750km, 11:27 hr:min at 502km/hr; Anchorage: 5422km, 10:48 hr:min at 502km/hr). I think dude had some wrong math as he put 7.5 hours flight, and where I looked it was almost 11 hours (maybe forgot time zones?). Idk. Interestingly, Nuuk and Caracas are about the same (Nuuk: 3268km, 6:30 hr:min at 502km/hr; Caracas: 3305km, 6:35 hr:min at 502km/hr).
This is all from https://www.geodatos.net/en/distances/cities/united-states/washington-dc/washington
I’m wondering if Trump wants Greenland because Putin wants Alaska
I'm wondering why our turbulent priest hasn't offended someone enough, in his 79 years, to find himself on the receiving end of an enthusiastic sendoff.
You guys had me rolling on the floor laughing about the food clip. Thank you! (possibly the chicken was road kill and the "piece" of broccoli came out of the grade school garbage bin...cuz the kids wouldn't eat it)