Elon’s Bot Goes Full Bigot! Trump’s Tariff Tantrum! Epstein Files “Vanish”

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Trump fumbles through a chaotic cabinet meeting, announcing new tariffs and cluelessness to the Ukraine weapons pause. Meanwhile, MAGA world erupts over the Epstein files, Grok turns into a bigoted chatbot, and ICE has transformed into Trump’s personal police force. Special guest Sam Stein joins Sarah and JVL to discuss yet another wild week.

show notes
Will Sommer’s False Flag “MAGA World’s Mega Meltdown Over Latest Epstein Flop”
JVL’s Triad “The American Police State Is Here”

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0:29.0	slash audio. Elon Musk made a big announcement saying that we have improved grok significantly.
0:35.5	You should notice a different when you ask groROC questions. GROC is his
0:39.6	proprietary AI, and people have noticed a huge
0:43.3	difference. GROC is now a neo-Nazi.
0:51.5	Hello, everyone. This is
0:53.2	JVL here with one of my best friends, Sarah Longwell,
0:57.5	and a guy sitting in for my other best friend, Sam Stein,
1:02.7	who...
1:03.0	Brutal intro.
1:05.2	A very close friend, a dear friend, somebody who I have grown to love,
1:10.5	like a brother.
1:12.1	There we go.
1:12.5	And like one of the good brothers that you really, really like, not like Joe.
1:15.9	This is not my first TNL, Sarah.
1:17.4	I'm sorry, you're usually sitting in for me.
1:20.9	We're never on together.
1:23.4	All right, guys.
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