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The Next Level

Only the Worst People (The Secret Podcast PREVIEW)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and JVL talk about Samuel Alito’s flag, Greg Abbott’s favorite murderer, MTG’s spectacle, and Bob Menendez’s gold bars. The scumbags are ascendent and it is glorious.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there it's JVL. On the secret show with Sarah Longwell today we talked about Samuel Alito and the flag and Greg Abbott.

0:09.0

In this is the episode where Sarah was finally ready to put people on a Falcon Heavy.

0:15.0

It's kind of awesome.

0:16.4

Here's the show.

0:17.4

Before bed last night, the New York Times breaks a big story about Samuel Alito's house

0:27.0

running an upside-down American flag in the days

0:37.4

follow in January of 2021.

0:40.7

So, is that a distress call?

0:42.4

Is that a distress call? that a distress call yes so this is a universal distress call is an upside down American flag and and

0:50.5

while two cases pertaining to the overturning of the attempt to overturn the election

0:57.8

were still pending before the Supreme Court and I don't know doesn't seem good.

1:04.4

Well, hold on it it used to be the I was kind of kidding because it used to be the

1:09.1

universal symbol of a distress. Right and now is a QAnon thing.

1:12.3

Now it's a well not yet. It like a it was like a stop to steal emblem at the time.

1:16.7

Right. And so, and so this comes out, it's a photo, but it's from back when these cases were in front of him in the Supreme Court, whether or not, you know, Trump, you know, could send the false electors and everything.

1:31.0

And so while that's in front of him and this is what the

1:34.4

the thing that's wild about the Alito flag thing it gets it's just really

1:39.6

crazy if you think about in the context of at Alito's house there is an upside down flag

1:45.6

in solidarity with the Stop to Steel folks over at Justice Thomas's house

1:50.0

his wife is relentlessly texting the Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows saying like do the

1:58.8

coup harder why aren't you couping harder and to think that both these gentlemen I've got a fever and the

2:04.8

only prescription is more coo yeah that both these gentlemen were not did not

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