Tim Miller

But it does seem like there's still some hesitancy in various places, particularly in the funding fight coming up.

You know, Bill Kristol was out yesterday basically saying, like, where is Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, senators from Minnesota?

You know, making this a cornerstone of the fight around the upcoming budget conversations in the Senate.

So we'll see how that goes.

But I just think that if the White House is admitting and basically how these stories come to pass is that there's somebody in the White House that sees the polls, sees it's a disaster and is leaking about it.

So the people talk about it.

So hopefully Trump backs off.

That's why this story is out.

Like it's not, you know, it's not like.

The polls got left on the printer or something at the White House and Marco Puto found out like somebody in the White House is unhappy and is trying to get them to back off.

And so the fact that that is happening from inside the House, so to speak, is telling and the Democrats shouldn't let up on it.

Wasn't I saying I do kind of want to laugh?

Can we laugh at these fucking little authoritarian thugs?

It was Susan Glasser we were talking about this and throughout the story is the same, you know, throughout the 1930s, just about how...

hackish and embarrassing and clownish the authoritarians were.

I kind of feel like we need sort of a segment on that.

I don't know.

Maybe put in the comments if you have some suggestions on what a brand for that could be.

Maybe like an award, like a weekly award for the most clownish attempt at authoritarianism.

For this week, I want to shout out Tricia McLaughlin.