The Dark Level: Is Nothing Sacred?

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this special TNL/Dark Side mash-up, JVL & A.B. attempt to break Tim's resolve by discussing President Biden's concerning showing in a new Ann Selzer poll, Black voters’ waning support for Biden, the rallying of CEOs to Donald Trump's cause, and the culture war drama surrounding Caitlin Clark.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. This is J. V.L. here with my best friend Tim Miller and
0:06.8	sitting in for my other best friend Sarah Longwell is my third best friend, the
0:10.4	mistress of darkness, AB, are you ready to gang up on Tim? We're
0:16.7	going to double team Tim today and we're just gonna, this could be the
0:21.0	darkest ever show.
0:25.3	Yeah, I think I have one ray of light that I found in my stack of papers, but there's a lot of dark.
0:38.0	I'm gonna tell you guys, I am tan, I'm not rested, but I am tan. I was at beaches and weddings.
0:40.0	I was at a disco tech, maybe a couple discotex. I met a person, I met an American who did not, didn't seem to know who Kamla Harris was, which on the one hand is alarming, but on the other hand was very kind of freeing for me just mentally to do a week where I was like, you know, hey, I'm with some people who are some expats who are visiting Spain who don't even
1:05.2	know who the vice president is.
1:06.4	So I was embracing that.
1:07.5	And so I just, I don't know if you guys can bring me to the dark side right now.
1:10.0	I am in, I am in the light, even though it's raining outside which is a personal challenge.
1:16.4	So over the weekend Donald Trump appeared in a black church in Detroit.
1:28.0	He this church Black Church in Detroit. This church head seating for about 200 people. Kelly Ann Conway went on Fox and said that 8,000 people were there, super cool, that's fine. From the pictures, most of the
1:38.4	attendees, the vast majority of the attendees, appeared to not be African African American but you know I don't see
1:44.4	race so that's a blind spot for me. It kind of looked like what if you are going to a
1:51.0	NASCAR driver's like signing event,
1:54.8	like it was the type of crowd that you would see at a NASCAR driver's,
1:58.7	you know, kind of autograph signing.
2:01.1	Like a niche NASCAR driver, one of the smaller drivers.
2:05.0	The pastor of the church, Lorenzo Sewell, Reverend Sewell told MS NBC, I remember walking down Grand River a place that is desolate on the west side of Detroit,
2:16.0	walking down the street and just inviting people, saying, the former president is here if you want to come.
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