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The Next Level

The Real Wannabe Dictator (with Sonny Bunch)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has been arrested for the second time this year, and GOP voters somehow think he's the most electable of all Republican candidates. Plus, Fox News calls Biden a "Wannabe Dictator" and Tim takes a victory lap with the Denver Nuggets' championship win. Sonny Bunch fills in for Sarah on this week's show!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to the next level I'm J. L. here with my best Bud Tim

0:09.8

Miller and my very good friend Sunny B bunch sitting in for Sarah Longwell.

0:14.0

Guys we've got another arrest I guess arrest too

0:19.2

although it's not really an arrest because if you get to surrender to the authorities and then not get

0:27.8

mugshotted or fingerprinted I mean I have heard many people complaining about the two-tier system of justice and how oh we have a two-tier system I'm thinking to myself

0:37.6

Yes, that's right the rich guy gets to turn himself in and doesn't even have to get mug shotted or handcuffed or any of those things.

0:44.5

We do in fact have a two-tier system of justice.

0:47.3

But I don't know, Tim, you're chomping at the bit.

0:49.9

Get out of the gate.

0:50.9

I've been arrested.

0:51.9

Mom, please fast forward this a few. Just do a couple, click on that

0:56.6

forward 30 second thing if you're listening mom. But you know, I was a young man and I was drinking alcohol before it was allowed before I was of age,

1:05.6

before I was 21.

1:07.1

And so I wasn't, I was given a ticket for that and I was assigned some community service, some classes, and I did like 90% of it. You know, I'm just a privileged white kid that just I was like, yeah, I paid the fine. I did I did some of the community service I went to one class I didn't like it I didn't go to the other class no no big deal I kind of figured wrong

1:29.9

I ran through a stop sign I don't know it's kind of a BS pull you know it was a witch hunt maybe you know

1:35.9

I was somebody was a rolling stop sign yeah

1:40.3

stop sign yeah stop sign and get pulled, the comp comes to just give me a ticket and then he runs my numbers and he comes back up and he's like,

1:48.0

well, you get out of the car, and I was like, what?

1:50.0

And apparently I had a warrant for my arrest from not finishing the minor in possession class.

1:56.0

And so I got taken down to the Boulder Clink and I got to tell you, I got the mug shot, I got fingerprinted, I got fingerprinted I got put into a cell for like an hour it wasn't that

2:07.1

big of a deal you know my my rights weren't infringed upon but it was only a single

2:11.8

count of what I don't believe was a misdemeanor, minor in possession of alcohol,

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