Tom Nichols: The Cat Was in the Basement

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The Bulwark

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

JD Vance thought he had confirmation of his Haitian migrant conspiracy when a Springfield, OH resident filed a police report about her missing cat. But Miss Sassy was just in the basement, safe and sound. More seriously, Vance and Trump want everyone who's not on their team to shut up, so they can rile up their supporters and prime people for violence. Meanwhile, has the MAGA duo become such losers that even Joe Rogan and the bro-sphere have had enough?

Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller.

show notes:

Tom on Trump using an assassination attempt to inflame politics

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. He's back. It's Tom Nichols, Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College,
0:14.8	staff writer at the Atlantic, author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. His books include the
0:18.7	death of expertise. We'll be talking about expertise. What's happening, Tom?
0:22.9	Hey, Tim, what's happening?
0:25.4	I don't know, world's on fire.
0:26.8	People are losing their minds.
0:28.9	Dogs and cats living together.
0:30.6	Other than that, just another late,
0:32.8	sleeping late summer news cycle.
0:34.4	Not getting eaten though, and that's where we're going to start the day.
0:37.1	I keep wanting to move on to this from this story, but I just can't.
0:40.0	When you have this anecdote, this is my favorite story, maybe of the year.
0:44.6	I don't know if you've seen this,
0:45.9	so in the Wall Street Journal today.
0:48.2	A advanced spokesperson on Tuesday,
0:51.8	so yesterday, provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report in which a resident
0:56.4	had claimed their pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors.
1:00.4	Luckily for the Wall Street Journal, they had a reporter who lives in Ohio.
1:05.0	Chris Mar, I've worked with it before.
1:07.0	So Chris Mar went to the house of the police report.
1:09.0	The woman's name was Anna Kilgore.
1:11.0	He went to her house yesterday evening.
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