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The Bulwark Podcast

Will Saletan: The Crassness Is the Point

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Greg Abbott chose to be breathtakingly inhumane, MAGA cancel culture is a runaway train, Biden gets in some good digs, Trump is the biggest victim of all, and McCarthy still doesn't have the votes on the debt ceiling—just insane demands. Will Saletan joins Charlie Sykes for Charlie and Will Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:47.3

Happy Monday and welcome to the Bowork podcast. I'm Charlie Sags joined by my colleague Will

1:00.5

Salitan. How are you? Will. I'm good, Charlie. We're well in the spring here in Washington.

1:04.4

It's May. It is May first. That feels like a turning point, even in Wisconsin. It really does.

1:11.1

So, word on the street is that you did not go to the White House Correspondent's Center.

1:15.4

No, I can't say I didn't put on the talks and make put on the fake smile and hang out with

1:19.4

celebrities. Yeah, I think people all across America really look forward to watching members

1:24.2

of the media engage in this annual ritual of star flicking. Is it star flicking? I just want to

1:30.2

make it clear before you slap on the e-rating. We may earn it later, but I said star flicking because

1:36.6

it's like, oh, where are these famous people? Okay, never mind. I'm just gonna do it. Okay, so

1:41.6

have you ever heard of a thing because it's Monday. That's why I'm interested. Have you ever

1:46.8

heard of a thing called bare minimum Mondays because it's apparently a TikTok trend. So I figured

1:52.0

you might know about it because I don't. My kids might know about it. The bare minimum Monday

1:57.6

encourages workers to ease into their week by doing just enough to get by as the work week

2:03.6

begins. I just love the way that sort of old-fashioned slacking develops a like thing,

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