John Heilemann: Piss and Vinegar

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If persuadable voters are going to back an octogenarian, they are going to need to see less caution—and more piss and vinegar from Biden to combat Trump's "me strong, you weak" schtick. Meanwhile, TFG and RFK, Jr face-planted at the Libertarian convention, James Carville's advice for the Dems, and a tribute to an American original, Bill Walton.

show notes:

Biden in 2020 calling a voter fat, and a "damn liar"
Biden's address at West Point
Heilemann's Puck newsletter

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullock podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. It is Tuesday
0:12.2	it is summer we're through the Memorial Day weekend.
0:14.8	I'm delighted to be here with my pal, my former partner in crime on the circus, now chief political
0:20.4	columnist at Puck. He's host of a new podcast coming out June 4th called
0:24.7	impolitic impolitic. Impolitic. I like that.
0:28.2	Impolitic. I like that. Impolitic. I kind of like saying, so I'm going to say it like that.
0:33.8	Because you're a fancy pretentious Frenchman, Tim.
0:35.6	Deep at heart.
0:36.1	I am a fancy boy.
0:38.1	John Heilman is here.
0:39.4	He's already interrupting me.
0:40.4	The Bill Walton of political commentary. It was appropriate that he'd be here today
0:44.6	we'll do a little bill walten remembrance at the end John how you doing brother
0:48.2	dude it's awesome to see you I don't think a view as a former partner in crime
0:51.1	I just think of you as a former as a former circus
0:53.8	partner in crime but I think I thought we were partners in crime before you
0:56.5	came on the circus and I think of us as partners in crime you know in
0:59.5	perpetuity I take that at it I take that yeah you we are. We will be partners in crime today and then again in the future.
1:07.0	They're closing arguments in the Trump Tower having right now as we tape and so I want to get to that.
1:12.0	But before if you don't mind, I want to play a little game with you.
1:15.0	It was Memorial Day, as I mentioned.
1:17.0	And I just want to read a Memorial Day post from one prominent politician
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