Michael Steele: A Petty, Punk-Ass President
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. He's the co-host of MSNOW's The Weeknight, airing every day at 7 p.m. in the East. He's a former chair of the RNC. He was lieutenant governor of Maryland. It is Michael Steele, the chairman. How you doing, man?
What's up, playa playa? How you doing, Tim?
Girl, here's where we stand at 10.30 a.m. when we're taping this. We have a new Fed chair who has ties to the Greenland debacle. Trump is suing the government for $10 billion, his own government. Lindsey Graham might shut down the government if she doesn't get some bribe money. Tulsi is raiding elections offices. The regime has arrested Don Lemon, and we still don't know who killed Alex Preddy. I got a bunch of other stuff, but I'm going to stroke out just going through all those topics. You're a host now. Dealer's choice. Which one of those do you want to start with?
Look, it's Friday. Yeah. So, you know, we always talk about living for the weekend. Yeah. It never meant more than it does right now. Look, all of that's bad. All of that's bad. Arresting Don Lemon? For what? Look, the Fed chair and all of that stuff, a lot of this has been in play for a while. The extra stuff, you know, suing the government for $10 billion, going after a celebrity host, all of that bullshit is the distraction. And the fact of the matter is It is proving to me that Susie Wiles, who was lauded coming in as the adult in the room, that she was his muse and she was in his ear, that shit don't mean nothing. Because Donald Trump is a thing unto himself. Always has been, always will be. And this idea that somehow we're going to magically control the dragon,
You know, I mean, hell, even in Game of Thrones, there were moments when that dragon looked at, you know, looked at it was sitting on his back. OK, bitch, you screw up one more time. You know, the reality is we now I mean, there's more more than ever recognize they're trying to steal the elections for this November. They're trying to and have in many ways put in place an authoritarian state with Donald Trump sitting on the toilet. And you've got around him the Lindsey Grahams and others who are willing to shill because they think they're somehow going to be protected. And so that's our Friday. That has been our every day since 2016. And I think that in many respects, particularly in certain parts of Magiverse, and I've heard you speak on this, you know, light bulbs may be coming on, but they still are dim.
Yeah.
They are. You know, that's a good thesis statement as we go through all these things, because I think we might as well start with Don Lemon in Minnesota, because, you know, I mean, we weren't fooled, but we did go through this BS here in the midweek where Tom Homan comes into Minneapolis. They got a new boss in charge. They're going to tone things down. Donald Trump's been a little spooked. and they don't like seeing the dead white people in the streets and they might change their policies a little bit. That was nothing. Donald Trump just lives the news cycle. The dragon sitting on the throne, to mix your metaphors, sitting on his golden toilet. He's a survivor, right? And he wants more power. And it's like, oh, that thing didn't work.
People are mad at me.
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