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1006: PITIFUL GOP Candidate in VA! Goateed LOSER Cooking Books! Leningrad...WHAT?! | Next Level

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Tim and JVL are BACK!

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Breaking up is never easy, but saying goodbye to your old clunky work tools, well, that's easy.

0:06.0

Just repeat after me. It's not me, it's definitely you, you rigid, unfriendly software.

0:13.1

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0:19.0

with stunning dashboards, customizable templates and built-in

0:22.7

AI that actually works, switching to a new work platform has never felt this good. So move on to

0:29.0

Monday.com. Hi, I'm Joe Wiley. And I'm Soie Ball. And we're here to tell you about a brand new

0:35.0

podcast, Digit. Digit is all about the things that Joe and I love. From the kids to the parents and all the stuff in between. There's a lot going on when you get to this age. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. And watch every episode on Spotify. Digit. Every week. Every week. For the rest of time.

0:54.8

Yes.

0:55.2

Okay.

0:55.6

Good.

0:59.4

We should all be happy and thankful that Donald Trump will be 82 years old at the end of his term.

1:06.4

Because I will tell you, if he was 50, the only thing we have on our side about this third term term nonsense is the actuarial tables.

1:17.0

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark.

1:25.2

Guys, before we get started, I have a little, I want to surprise you. Oh, great. I'm surprised you. It's not on the map. It's not on the show map. Is it about how you're being held hostage somewhere right now? I'm not being held hostage. Our colleague, Will Summer, had a piece yesterday in his newsletter, false flag, ding, ding, ding,

1:44.9

go to the bulwark.com and subscribe to it. It's fantastic, in which he went through a recent

1:50.6

deposition with one Laura Lumer.

1:54.7

Laura Lumer is suing Bill Maher and HBO for defamation.

1:58.7

And in the course of this deposition, HBO's lawyers asked her about a

2:04.7

tweet that she had sent about Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, my friend, or friend that I

2:12.5

haven't met yet, in which Ms. Lumer said that Marjorie Taylor Green had, quote, Arby's in her pants.

2:21.0

I would like to read to you from the deposition.

2:24.6

Counselor.

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