This exchange between former Trump spokesmodel turned Bulwark employee, Sarah Matthews, and Tim Miller made me check my blogroll and archives to make sure the entire history of the Liberal blogosphere/ podcast universe really existed. Or had I hit my head on a low-slung door casing in 1998 and just dreamed it all up.
Matthews: Don't get me wrong like of course there's a little part of me that thinks internally of course it feels good to be right but like I didn't want to be right about all of this.
Tim Miller: I did and that's one way that we're different. And I don't want to be immodest or anything, but it does feel like as I survey the news that we're going to go to this morning, like that the most extreme cringe version of Never Trumpism uh seems like it was it was correct. Like, whatever person you have in your mind, you're like, "This person like hates Trump so much that some of their takes are even a little bit like, you know, make you wince a little bit because they've gone so far around the bend." Like that person, whoever that person is in your mind, was like way more right than any anybody who tried to say like, "Let's call it balls and strikes." Like, let's see, you know, he's he had some good points on this or that.
Matthews: And now obviously like you know five years of being the on the anti-Trump side and yeah feels feels good to know that we were right.
Sure she did all the things and enjoyed all the perks and told all the lies and backed all the madness, but she reassures Tim, in her hip-hop heart (tm New York Times Pitchbot) she was never really down to clown. She was never really bought in to all the MAGA stuff. Deep down she knew things weren't right.
(So lemme understand. Back then, when she worked for Donald Trump, on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour basis she was just lying about what she truly believed. And doing it so expertly that no one could tell that she never believed the things that were coming out of her mouth.
But now she's telling the unvarnished truth? And you can trust that because...? C'mon people. It's like no one has ever seen Double Indemnity. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. The File on Thelma Jordon. Or No Man of Her Own, )
Well none of those questions were on the table. Instead Tim did the podcast equivalent of chucking her under the chin and telling her, it's OK kiddo. As the official brand-ambassador for the "pro-democracy coalition", I can assure you, all is forgiven. You're on The Bulwark payroll now, and we absolve everybody.
Everybody?
Well --- not everybody. There are two groups whose transgressions are so grievous that they can never be excused.
The first group is one guy. Tucker Carlson. Who has always been lying, skeevy con man who'll say anything to advance his personal and political fortunes. All his "apology" amounts to is another MAGA rat scurrying down the-rat line of a sinking ship. Never trust this guy.
The second group are... Liberals. Especially Liberal bloggers and podcasters who had the poor taste to have been. inconveniently, 100% right about the Right since long before there was ever such a thing as The Bulwark or a Never Trumper. Since long before Trump was even a thing.
If the Bulwark crew had it within their power to wish all of us with long memories and detailed files ...
... all into the cornfield, they'd do it before close of business.
But since that is beyond their abilities, they settle for pretending we never existed, except as straw men whose imaginary follies prompt endless eye-rolling from the savvy set.
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The SE Cupp clip you played on the pod Thursday (Show #988) was so... infuriating. What to do when the stink the Republican shit pile SE Cupp helped build becomes so odious that even she can't stand it? Easy—turn your back on it and join the growing army of never-Trumpers who are now means-testing each other for purity of cause. These people are loathsome asses who deserve each other's Republican misery.
I'm infuriated with that framing also but it's the relativism of conservative thinking. The overton window hasn't included the actual left for so many decades that people like at the Bulwark don't even see the legitimate left which gives them all the entitlement of feeling as right as they did when they were proudly on board with all their Republican shit.
There are idiots in the news media that like to raise the thought of the Tucker running for president.
They media folks avoid reporting news to go full tabloid. Maybe they should interview Batboy to see if the Tucker has Putin's support and permission.
Gotta disagree, Carlson would be welcomed back instantly if he just agreed, liberals wouldn’t be welcomed even if they agreed.
Every day the GOP majority and their cult leader take actions to cut and delete the rights I fought for in serving in the military to defend. Every day they get their SCOTUS majority of ideological zealots who do not make rulings on law but on extreme cultish beliefs and us their personal religious beliefs to make rulings. Knowing the 1st Amendment is clear on government not establishing religion as they make ruling to further promote and establish their personal religious beliefs and ideological extremes into their decision instead of legalities.
It takes away from me . Every time.
When their religious beliefs is used to discard Roe V wade. Each time they abruptly tale a case pre planned to gut the Civil Rights act. It may effect others for I am not a woman and I am not a minority. But taking from them takes from me and will come around to directly take from all of us..
My deeply personal held opinion that should be a valid as a SCOTUS justice's deeply held personal religious belief.
But see that their religion super cedes everyone else's and is superior. So much for the legal review of the law for the American people now that it has become Justices ruling as their personal beliefs and political handcuffs. Be assured, they rule on American people obeying and it is not for them or their religious or political crusaders to obey.
Yeah, Heard it many times before.
The Never Trumper who votes for all the republican congress members that enable, support Him. Whatever Trump wants, they are there to please him, too provide him with whatever he wants.
To ensure his cognitive tests are rigged.
sometime, ask one of these Never Trumpers who voted for republican senators and House members (but say they did not vote Trump_. Ask them, all those republican senators and house representatives are most definitely avid Trumpers. They are Full Cult.
You wouldn't vote for Trump but you voted for all those GOP congress members to make sure as Trump cult members, they give Trump whatever he wishes.?
How s that Never Trump?
O mean, isn't it like not voting for Trump but voting for Steven Miller to do Trump's every snuff movie for him.
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