Jamel Bouie

I think it's because the very notion is actually at odds with any idea of good governance.

Yeah.

And those people are often like themselves bottom of the barrel.

But this gets to the point I was going to make, which is that, okay, let's say Bondi goes and it's Matt Gaetz.

It's some other chud that the president wants.

And for those who don't know, chud refers to a cannibalistic human underground dweller from the 1984 film.

You just had to go with it?

I'm sorry.

Let's take a beat on that.

Continue.

Sorry.

I'm okay.

Gates isn't going to be any more competent.

He might be more aggressive, but it's still going to be the same basic problem of, A, what you're asking these people to do is stupid.

B, in addition to being corrupt and unconstitutional.

And B, the mere act of trying to get anyone to do it degrades the capacity of the agency itself.

So it just makes things worse.

set that used to rule the day i guess back in the george bush era i'll just say that's so funny because it's crazy cornyn is like cornyn is a dedicated partisan and i think david's right to say that like it's not just this obsession with punching the left like an almost like a worship of the will to power right like the thing the thing paxton has that cornyn may not is that cornyn

may feel some obligation to do the public good on occasion, right?

Like voting for the gun control bill, right?