S2 Ep1044: Peter Hamby: All in Service of Kissing Trump's Ass

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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MAGA is having a performative tantrum calling for James Comey to be jailed over a seashell meme because the daily job of Trump's supporters and Cabinet members is to try to warm his heart—that includes Kristi Noem changing her face and Tulsi firing top intel officials because they told the White House the truth it doesn't want to hear. Meanwhile, fentanyl deaths and violent crime fell dramatically last year, and border crossings have plummeted, but the administration keeps hyping a "crisis" to try to justify suspending habeas corpus. Plus, Tim briefly goes back to his comms job, the GOP's bill is not on a glide-path, Dems think their leaders are "spineless," Gavin tries "just win" on for size, Kamala mulls the CA governor's race—and new baby advice!!

Peter Hamby joins Tim Miller for a bountiful weekend pod.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller, as mentioned yesterday. We are doing a joint live show, a big gay live show, Sarah Longwell,
0:21.4	John Lovett and me, and we're going to have some special guests that will probably also be gay.
0:26.6	It is during World Pride in D.C. June 6th, it will be a fundraiser in support of the legal team
0:32.1	that is doing the work on behalf of Andre Hernandez and a few of the other folks that have been disappeared to El Salvador.
0:39.3	So it will be serious, but also fun and also gay. And you should, you should come, come hang out.
0:44.1	Yeah. I hate to send you to their website, but I think it's going to be easier. Just go to
0:47.5	crooked.com slash events. Ours had a bunch of other backslashes on there. So crooked.com
0:52.1	slash events. You won't get in trouble. Go over and get tickets there.
0:56.5	Today's show.
0:57.5	He's the host of Snapchat's Good Luck America.
0:59.8	He's a partner at Puck News and host of the Daily Puck Pod,
1:02.4	The Powers That Be, it's Peter Hamby.
1:04.7	What's that?
1:05.0	What's up, Hamby?
1:05.7	Hey, man.
1:06.3	Congrats on the Nuggets.
1:08.0	Hoo, boy, It's been, it's been. You finally got some scoring spread out in my guy.
1:13.3	Christian's wrong shirt up.
1:14.4	It's been, it's been such a fun series, man.
1:18.3	And I just, I wish it was an 11 game series.
1:21.1	It's been the distraction that I needed in my life.
1:24.1	You know, the Nuggets have had seven game sevens since COVID. So during this horrific
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