Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, and clearing out any officials who would be willing to investigate the administration. It's anti-democratic, it's a coup, and it's allowing Elon and his 20-something DOGE buddies to act with impunity as they illegally access classified information and the Treasury's payment system. Meanwhile, the White House can't even get its messaging straight on the tariffs as they sabotage our relationship with allies in the process. Plus, the ethnic scapegoating continues and the Dems at the DNC go all Portlandia when they need to be fighting the aspiring authoritarians.

Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome join Tim Miller.
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Tim's interview with J.J. McCullough on Canada's retaliatory tariffs

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.
0:09.9	I'm your host Tim Miller.
0:11.0	We've got a two-parter today.
0:12.2	I added a bonus segment with Scott Linsico and was a trade expert to talk about the tariffs
0:17.0	that are imminent and already rollicking the stock market.
0:20.5	But first, it's back for the old
0:23.0	timers, for the OGs. You might remember Will Salatin Mondays. Well, they're back right now.
0:27.9	Bill Crystal's on vacation. I'm here with my colleague, Will Salatin. What's up, Will?
0:32.0	There's no vacation from Trumpism, Tim. That's just everywhere you go.
0:35.6	No, he's been texting me. There's definitely no vacation for him mentally, but he does get one day off the podcast.
0:41.6	Can I start with something positive, though?
0:43.2	Go ahead, man. I don't know if you'll find it positive, but I'm feeling good about a couple of things this morning.
0:48.4	All right? Tell me. Here's number one. This is a shit show. This is a total shit show. And I knew it would be a shit show. This is a total shit show.
0:56.0	And I knew it would be a shit show.
0:58.5	We told everybody it would.
1:00.6	But, you know, there was always a chance that Trump would get in there and, I don't
1:05.1	know, decide not to do anything, right?
1:07.0	And just kind of bleat and like get people call them sir and not actually do anything and take credit for
1:12.2	things that were already kind of percolating positively from the Biden administration.
1:16.7	That was one option that could have happened.
1:19.3	But instead we have JVL this morning in the triad predicting a stock market crash and all the topics
1:26.0	we're about to go over is them messing things up.
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