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The Next Level
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Trump turns a late-night DC fight into an excuse for a full-blown National Guard takeover — complete with a TV personality running the cops. The gang tackles this absurd “Big Balls” pretext, Trump’s upcoming Alaska summit with Putin (and the Billy Joel geography lesson), his bizarre choice of an unqualified weirdo to cook the jobs numbers, and what it all means for the economy, authoritarian crackdowns, and the next elections. Plus: Sherrod Brown’s uphill Ohio battle, and why Democrats need real butch he-men running for office.
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| 0:20.0 | We should all be happy and thankful that Donald Trump will be 82 years old at the end of his |
| 0:26.6 | term. Because I will tell you, if he was 50, the only thing we have on our side about this |
| 0:32.5 | third term nonsense is the actuarial tables. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:38.9 | This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark. |
| 0:45.9 | Guys, before we get started, I have a little, I want to surprise you. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm going to surprise you. |
| 0:51.7 | It's not on the map. |
| 0:52.9 | It's not on the show map. |
| 0:53.4 | Is it about how you're being |
| 0:54.4 | held hostage somewhere right now? I'm not being held hostage. Our colleague, Will Summer, |
| 1:02.0 | had a piece yesterday in his newsletter, false flag, ding, ding, ding, go to the bulwark.com |
| 1:07.2 | and subscribe to it. It's fantastic, in which he went through a recent deposition with one Laura Loomer. |
| 1:15.4 | Laura Loomer is suing Bill Maher and HBO for defamation. And in the course of this deposition, |
| 1:23.0 | HBO's lawyers asked her about a tweet that she had sent about Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, my friend, or friend that I haven't met yet, in which Ms. Lumer said that Marjorie Taylor Green had, quote, Arby's in her pants. I would like to read to you from the deposition. |
| 1:45.3 | Counselor. |
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