S2 Ep1039: Amanda Carpenter: MAGA's Bad Week
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How did a new Pope affect American politics?
Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. One quick note, once again, for the Bulwark Takes podcast feed. There's just so much crazy shit happening in the world, you know, and I taped a podcast yesterday morning on the protests, which I thought was very cute and important and a change of pace for what we're doing around here often. And then, you know, two minutes later, we have an American Pope that's crapped on JD Vance. So me and JVL got on our house Catholic, you know, our house Catholic and good standing at least. And so, you know, if you wanted a quick response to what's happening when crazy stuff happens, just go ahead and make sure to download the Borg takes feed.
And if you missed it yesterday, go listen to JVL because he's really great on this stuff. But we're going to do a little bit more on the Pope right here today. For those of you who are patient, who can wait 24 hours in this world, that's a good practice. And we've got a good guest for it. It's my old friend, a writer and editor at Protect Democracy and contributor to If You Can Keep It on Substack. It's Amanda Carpenter. What's up, Amanda?
Hey, happy Friday. Are we all feeling a little Catholic this morning?
It's Friday. Well, you know, I mean, as a cradle Catholic, I got to tell you, we had some bumps. I had some bumps in the road with my Catholicism, but my little brother went to Villanova. It's an American Pope. I saw multiple tweets about how it's a bulwark Pope because Yes, he was a he voted in the Republican primary in 2016. We have from the records, but he sent some quite negative tweets about Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. So we have a bulwark pope who went to Villanova, who's American. I don't know. I'm feeling about as Catholic as I've felt in a while. I'm ready to do some hymns from my childhood.
I know, I feel like I should congratulate you and JBL. Although I am sort of like trying to adjust to the idea that we have a Pope who tweets or X's or acts on social media. I mean, it's very cool. I think a lot of people are, you know,
rightly excited yeah and it's so strange it does like bring home just the pope even to me as a as a catholic as a kid it's just it does feel so distant right it feels so distant and holy they're like a creature that's like not quite human like a little bit like mostly human but a little bit not and then all of a sudden you have this pope and like the pictures are going around and it's like here he is at the deep dish pizza joint in chicago And like, here's his brother, who was, you know, watching cable and like came downstairs in the suburbs in Chicago to start talking about it. I don't know, the whole thing is a little surreal, but I think that's good. It brings the humanity back to it, at least for those of us Americans.
Yeah, and hopefully we think this one will be around a while. I feel like we've been through quite a few popes, like more popes than normal. Like they shouldn't be turning over this quickly. So I'm hoping the American one stays.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did a new Pope affect American politics?
1:13–7:21
2
Why did Trump withdraw his nominee for U.S. attorney?
7:21–13:27
3
What are the implications of Jeanine Pirro's appointment?
13:27–26:26
4
How does the latest UK trade deal reflect on Trump's policies?
26:26–35:09
5
Is Trump's trade policy socialist?
35:09–1:00:17
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