Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back to the show, the co-creator of the short-lived TV sitcom 1600. Wow. Wow.

Last place finisher on Survivor 47 and my co-host on Speech Center, the video series

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today. It's John Lovett. How you doing, man? I'm doing great. As a great president, one said, it's not whether or not you get knocked down, it's whether you it how you doing man uh i'm doing great as a as a great president one said it's not

it's not whether or not you get knocked down it's whether you get back up the that's true

way to way to pander to the eight bush lovers left listening to this podcast don't worry

everybody we've got good news okay we're going to get to the bimb of Christyneum's husband at the end of the program. All right. And this might be coming out a little later than usual today because Lovett likes his beauty rest. It's farm workers knee, Cesar Chavez Day in California, something I was just important of this morning.

And so it's, you know, it's taking us a little bit longer to get going today. But it's going to be worth it because had we done this on time, we would have not had the bimbofication topic to give you at the end of the podcast. So stick around. That's right. Love it. Here's what I want to start. One year ago, you were last time on the podcast. It feels like too long.

So we're not to have to do that.

The title of that show is a worst case scenario comes into view. And I was kind of curious what I thought we meant by that. And I went back and read the transcripts. And here's what you said. You said, it's hard to imagine a version of the Trump administration unfolding in which they're doing more in bad things without getting the blowback that might hurt them.

And I thought that was interesting to reread that, thinking back to March of 2025,

that like the worst case scenario was not just their behavior, which we expected, but the behavior of everyone else. And that's something to be positive about in the ensuing year. A lot of bad behavior has continued, but that has changed somewhat, wouldn't you say?

It's...

Not enough.

Not enough.

I mean, look, the full co-opting of the Republican Party has continued.

The idea that we would have gone to war... of the Republican Party has continued.

The idea that we would have gone to war in Iran without a debate, without a vote, without a plan, extraordinary.

We're going to talk about what he posted today about what Europe should be up to.

And the incompetence and chaos and silliness and idiocy of this is such a staggering,

like, unacceptable and obvious degree.

And there's still so many people on the right defending it. I think the optimistic part to me

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