Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast
Climate has vanished from progressive political discourse, crowded out by a 40% gas price spike from the Iran war, housing, healthcare, and education costs. When wages are trailing inflation, long-term existential threats lose to this month's bills.
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With Dickerson on six panels and Miller taking in the festival culture, the two do a quick ideas audit. Europe stepping up is the fashionable topic — though Dickerson notes the UK is the Spinal Tap drummer of world leaders, cycling through prime ministers as Ian Bremmer quipped, everyone gets their 15 minutes. Tim Miller flags the Brexit parallel as genuinely alarming: the UK just marked a decade since the vote, a majority now want back in, and one analysis estimates 4–8% of GDP has been lost. More importantly, the US faces the same structural fiscal problem — Medicare, Social Security, interest on debt — and the same political cowardice about touching it, as Starmer's political downfall after restricting pensioner payments demonstrated. On the corporate side, the retreat from DEI and climate commitments is visible in the sponsorship landscape itself: big tech firms that in 2018 were running trust-and-safety panels have quietly stood down, freed by Trump's political environment to drop the performative commitments. [1] — John Dickerson "Britain just marked 10 years of Brexit, and a majority now want to rejoin the EU. One analysis puts the cost at 4–8% of GDP. The US faces t…" 21:00
Britain just marked 10 years of Brexit, and a majority now want to rejoin the EU. One analysis puts the cost at 4–8% of GDP. The US faces the same fiscal math — Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt — and the same political cowardice about touching it.
One analysis found that Brexit cost the UK between 4 and 8 percent of GDP over the decade since the vote, due to reduced EU trade and restricted labor flows.
The Iran war contributed to a roughly 40% increase in US gas prices, making it politically harder to advance long-term arguments about climate investment.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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