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Bulwark Takes

The Internet is Bullying Sam Stein!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The trio is back and 2026 is off to a wild start. Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer give their takes on the calls for Nicki Minaj to be deported, the political influencers for sale creating a reality TV show, and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino blasting Matt Gaetz in a fiery MAGA feud.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller here, the leader of the FI-Trio. We were back together.

0:05.7

And it's been, it's 2026. And I just, there's so much out there with so many topics that I've summoned the trio together on a variety of things.

0:15.4

We're going to let Sam run the show. But among them, I absolutely want to talk about Sam being fillayed on the internet for a very mean tweet about Amy Clovichael.

0:28.2

I want to talk about Dan Benzino fighting Matt Gates and Milo.

0:32.8

I want to talk about influencer Riala.

0:35.1

I want to deport Mickey Minaj. I want to deport Mickey Minaj. I'm very excited about this. I want to talk about that. And Will wrote an article about how MAG is directing to Venezuela. And so I just I'm thrilled. I am, I have turgidity. I'm so excited to be here.

0:58.1

I'm supposed to pick up.

0:59.3

You want to talk about, you want me to emce a part of this show.

1:03.6

Oh, you know, we're taking over the rest of the show.

1:05.1

I just wanted to tell everybody why we're together.

1:06.9

I'm just, I was so excited.

1:08.7

And I wanted to lay out the topics I wanted to talk about. And then hand it over. Sure, let's just start with me being, in your words, filleted on the internet. I had no idea I was being filleted. For the Clobuchar tweet, that seems like that. Oh, yeah, you're getting crushed. Sam Stein sent a tweet that said Amy Klobuchar for governor a, a, what was it a fork?

1:29.7

A combing, a, a, a comb in every salad, a chicken and every pie. A comb in every pot.

1:34.7

It's a reference to when Amy Kovachar threw a comb at a staffer.

1:39.8

She ate, she got mad at a stoffer because she couldn't find a fork for her salad.

1:44.0

And so she ate the salad with her comb.

1:47.1

It seems like a part of her more.

1:49.7

No, there are a lot of, you can tell the blue sky people have moved back to Twitter.

1:54.4

They're like, Sam's being so mean to Amy Cole, but you're Sam's a misogynist.

1:58.8

Sam, it's like, oh, you can see the bias showing in your thing, Sam.

2:03.3

It's like, shut the fuck up, everybody.

2:06.7

Shut the fuck up.

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