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The Bulwark Podcast

Bill Kristol: Kama-Momentum

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Recent polls are showing some pretty significant movement to Harris, and she hasn't even had to play defense yet—though at some point she's going to. Meanwhile, Trump and Vance have had a strategically disastrous three weeks. Plus, RFK, Jr and the poor dead bear cub, the stock market sell-off, and Peter Thiel's lack of appreciation for how he has benefited from liberalism. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

show notes:

Joe Weisenthal on the stock market sell-off
The bear cub and RFK, Jr.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullock podcast I'm your host Tim Miller I'm here today with our editor America

0:14.3

the meritus the cheerful pessimist

0:17.4

Bill Crystal if it's Monday it's Bill Crystal what's up from editor at large

0:20.8

which sounds like I'm actually doing any work, to Editor Emeritus, which is kind of this out,

0:25.3

put out to pasture, but that's okay, I'm not offended.

0:27.4

I'm just cheerfully chugging along.

0:29.3

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker Emerita,

0:31.4

and she saved the country in the last month.

0:33.4

It was more of a Pelosi crystal comparison than an attempt to kick you, you know, kick you off the

0:39.7

side. I'm good with that. I'm good with that. We have serious business to discuss today. Much happened over the weekend, but we need a little Monday morning, and moves boosh, and so I'd like to play for you a clip that for some reason RFK Jr. put out himself on his Twitter feed.

0:57.0

Here he is in conversation with Roseanne Barr.

1:00.0

I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good

1:04.5

idea and I said I had an old bike in my car that somebody asked me to get rid of it

1:10.2

I said let's go put the bear in Central Park and we'll make it look like he got in by way.

1:16.1

That's about 20 seconds of a much longer video of RFK trying to preempt a New Yorker story about how he I guess put a dead bear cub in Central Park and tried to frame it as a bike accident.

1:31.0

Thoughts on that, Bill?

1:33.0

I mean, who hasn't stopped on the highway and put it poor dead bear cub in the back of one's van and

1:39.6

then had a bike there by accident and decided after a long day of

1:43.4

falcening I think it was and then going to Peter Luger kind of the

1:47.4

meat theme is very big in this RFK video for a big steak dinner it was too too late for him to do whatever he intended to do with the

1:55.0

bear cub and he had to get to the airport. So he just seen his buddies just did what you'd have to do with that circumstance,

2:00.4

which is drop it in Central Park with a bike to make it look like a bike accident.

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