Hey, everybody, Timor from the Bullwark here.

We got into some heavy stuff on MSNBC today.

Cable News, how about that?

Deep thoughts, real feelings.

I guess that's where we are in the country right now.

I was there with Nicole Wallace and Alex Wagner.

And we just started talking about where we are in this country, whether there's any hope for actually de-escalating and finding common ground, whether what our threat assessment is on where we are when it comes to authoritarianism.

And I just, you know, I just,

you can probably sense it in me if you're a daily viewer of the channel.

This is the one question I'm really torn about because I just,

I have this natural instinct inside of me that is a pessimistic one.

I have my inner JVL.

I see a lot of, um of the warning signs out there.

And I see things probably getting worse before they get better. Thanks to our president.

Thanks to AI. Thanks to cultural pressure, social pressure, cultural norms. Talk about this more on tomorrow's podcast.

So buckle up.

And so I feel that pessimism.

I feel that worry.

I feel that just sort of the sort of sense of being beaten down. I get it. I'm there.

The outlook in my crystal ball, my little magic eight ball, outlook not positive for American democracy and for our society.

And yet, who the fuck am I to give up?

It's not over yet.

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