Episodes

  • Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks-Up to Trump

    Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks-Up to Trump
    Jan 7 2025
    Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including praising Trump's (faux) free speech bona fides and restructuring Meta to eliminate fact-checking. Maybe it's because Zuck wants to show his middle finger to the mean tech reporters—or maybe it's because Trump threatened to imprison Zuck. Plus, the conspiracies around Jan 6 v 9/11, and the potential threat to our financial system from crypto.

    Charlie Warzel joins Tim Miller.
    show notes:

    Charlie's piece on internet brain rot
    Charlie's piece on crypto and the potential nightmare in Trump 2.0
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    59 mins
  • Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI

    Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI
    Jan 6 2025
    Kash Patel's Jan 6 lie requires FBI officials to have been able to see into the future: to *know* that Trump would lose in 2020 and then try to get Congress to reverse the election results. And they also would have to have known they could get thousands of people to attack the Capitol—just to make MAGA look bad. Are GOP senators really going to clear this conspiracy theorist extraordinaire to run the bureau? Plus, the martyrology around Jan 6 and the mass exodus of journalists from The Washington Post. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    Tom Jocelyn and Norm Eisen on Kash
    Sgt. Gonell's reflection on Jan 6
    Michael Kruse on Al Gore and Mike Pence
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    51 mins
  • Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City

    Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City
    Jan 3 2025
    New Orleans is the most special city in America, but it's a place that also breaks your heart. Local leaders will have to reassure the world that the French Quarter is safe. Plus, Mike Johnson is bound up in a Gordian Knot, and Democrats are petrified of the wrath of leading progressive interest groups in DC— it's like the Dem Party's version of Trump's Twitter ire.

    Jonathan Martin joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
    show notes
    Glen David Andrews leading a second line to reopen Bourbon Street on Thursday
    Jonathan's interview with Sen. Brian Schatz
    Tim's playlist
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    44 mins
  • David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism

    David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism
    Jan 2 2025
    Apart from the death and carnage on New Years Day in New Orleans, Americans revealed another darkness once again: an eagerness to pin violence on someone who doesn't share their political world view. Meanwhile, Republicans rushed to attack the FBI as a way to justify confirming Kash Patel. Plus, Trump has tossed populism aside as he preps to be openly oligarchical, and the real threats TV journalists face.

    David Frum joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Chart shared by Marc Andreessen that Tim referenced

    • The poem Churchill quoted during WWII that David mentioned

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    51 mins
  • Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission

    Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission
    Dec 31 2024
    While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwark will not be recalibrating. We'll keep providing the (sometimes funny) content you expect, we'll try not to chase Trump's bait (Canada, Greenland, Panama), and we'll disaggregate the real from the trolling. Plus, when one of the worst people in the world makes a good point, and how much is Trump stuck with Elon?

    Sarah and JVL join Tim for the last show of 2024. Happy New Year!

    show notes

    • The NBC News president’s comment on their Nebraska bread story that JVL referenced

    • NBC segment on the Omaha bakery
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts

    Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts
    Dec 30 2024
    MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that could diminish Trump's power—we're definitely not seeing signs of an iron fist amid all that golfing and DJ-ing at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile, the world he'll be dealing with is far less stable than it was in 2017. Plus, a Carter appreciation, love for Chalamet's Dylan portrayal, and anticipation of a wild January.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
    show notes

    • Tim's Bannon interview

    • Tim's dispatch from AmericaFest & Kari Lake Part Deux

    • Bill's conversation with Eric Edelman

    • The Post on retribution advocate Ivan Raiklin (gifted)

    • Sonny's review of Chalamet's "A Complete Unknown"
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    48 mins
  • 'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral'

    'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral'
    Dec 27 2024
    Do you have to pick a side in politics? That was the question Reason Magazine, the flagship publication of the libertarian movement, invited The Bulwark to debate. In a panel moderated by Reason features editor and Across the Movie Aisle co-host Peter Suderman, Sarah and Tim debated picking sides with Reason editors-at-large Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie.

    The debate was sharp, occasionally heated, enlightening, and definitely amusing. The results were . . . resounding. Watch for yourself.
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible

    Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible
    Dec 20 2024
    While it's still going to be bad, for the first time since the election we're beginning to see that we may actually have a little fun watching these idiots prove they don't know how to govern. Meanwhile, we've also got aspiring authoritarians on the left who think they're right at any cost. Plus, the challenge of holding on to American ideals, how to reach low-info voters, Tim's take from Phoenix on TPUSA, and can Tim make Jon cry? And one more Biden critique (that comes toward the end)... Merry Christmas.

    Jon Favreau joins Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    Jon's piece in The Atlantic
    Clip from Stavros Halkias about not voting Trump that Tim referenced
    Tim's playlist
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    1 hr and 8 mins