Wright Thompson

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994 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5d ago

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The Bulwark Daily · Wright Thompson and Jesse Lehrich: Hopium and Hate · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

And then we lost even the memory of why that was important to begin with.

And so a lot of that is, you know, to go back to the sort of Baudrillardian fever dream.

I mean, it's like,

We are simulacra and simulation more than we are sort of people living out our deepest beliefs.

I find it really frustrating and scary.

Fundamentally, politics is about making an argument to someone else about why your idea is better than their idea.

And if you're not engaged as a political being in that, then you're not really doing anything but just shouting into the wind.

It's pretty strong, and I hope we don't show our ass.

I hope we boo and we don't throw anything.

You know, he could have handled it better, but, like, all of us have taken a better, more high-paying job, right?

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He couldn't

you know?

So I totally agree with that.

And I feel like we are blaming him for structural problems.

I mean, there's a you can make a case that he's the most honest man in college football because he's the only one to admit that coaches aren't leaders of men.

They're just playing the piano in a whorehouse.

And, you know, that his job is to dial up touchdowns.

That's it.

And so on some level, he's the only honest man in college football who's just saying they pay me to score touchdowns.

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