A Wild Week: Human Printers, Ossoff, Todd Blanche, Baseball and so much more
What You Missed This Week From The Bulwark
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Let’s be together.
Trump’s Human Printer Is Cray-Cray
1. Nataly. Natali. Nathalie.
We have to talk about the Trump–Natalie Harp thing. I’m sorry. I had a big piece about economics teed up for today. About limbic capitalism and global reserve currency. (I can feel your excitement.)
But people are freaking out over the idea that Trump might be shtupping his human printer and I want to talk about that.
Because if only it were so simple.
Man, I wish Trump were just having an affair with someone forty-five years his junior. That kind of relationship would make sense. It would be gross, but intelligible. The reality of the Trump–Harp . . . thing . . . is so bonkers that I don’t have words for it.
I mean, you guys all saw Fatal Attraction, right?
So let’s go deep on this crazy.
ICYMI: Here are links to each newsletter section so you can quickly get back to that edition you may have missed this week.
Morning Shots - Triad - Huddled Masses - Press Pass - Bulwark Goes to Hollywood - The Opposition - False Flag - The Breakdown - Receipts
Is Jon Ossoff the One We’ve Been Waiting For?
WATCH: Sarah and JVL did a BIG show today. Sample awesome:
-Is Jon Ossoff the one we’ve been waiting for? Sarah has him in her Big Four. And you’ll never guess who the other three are.
-People hate Data Centers. So where is the juice for Democrats?
-JVL can’t stop/won’t stop..
Trump Is Finally Losing Ground Among Republicans
AS A MATTER OF ROUTINE IN FOCUS GROUPS, I ask voters to grade Donald Trump’s performance as president.
Todd Blanche’s One Promise: Dishonesty
TODD BLANCHE WAS DONALD TRUMP’S personal attorney, so it was natural that, when he was elevated to attorney general, a journalist asked whether he would “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?”
‘Negotiations’ Aren’t the Answer in Iran or Ukraine
IT’S EASY TO START WARS, and far harder to end them. This is a lesson that both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are discovering, for a lot of the same reasons. Both began wars of choice on the assumption that they could conduct decapitation strikes, achieve favorable leadershi…
How Baseball Marks the Time
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT WRIGLEY FIELD, a 23-year-old named Joshua Báez stepped to the plate for the St. Louis Cardinals for the first time in his major-league career. The very first pitch he saw, he belted 449 feet into the center-field seats. That was in the first inning. In…
🚨OVERTIME🚨
ICE has come to Springfield… ICE has already targeted a popular Haitian pastor and around 30 people are being housed in suburban Cincinnati at a jail handling ICE prisoners. Pastor Carl Ruby of Springfield’s Central Christian Church observes: “This arrest shows how low ICE will stoop to incite panic among people who came here peacefully, came here legally and offered nothing but good to our community. Earlier this week, he told The NY Times: ‘Their real goal is to incite fear, hoping that people will go back to Haiti.’” I plan to head to Springfield next week and will report back.
Groups you should support: The Haitian Community Help & Support Center, St. Vincent de Paul, and Second Harvest Food Bank.
It’s going to be a big fall for The Bulwark Community! Join us at one of our live shows in October or at one of Sarah’s book tour stops in September for her new book, How to Eat an Elephant.
Come join us in the subscriber chat to get to know fellow Bulwarkers going to these events. Join the subthread for the event in your city to say hi and introduce yourself to the community of folks who are going. Who knows, a comment pal you’ve chatted with might be coming to that show! Hope to see you there.
Bulwark Book Club for September: Send in your comments for Mona Charen and Sonny Bunch on ‘The Odyssey’!
YEA or NAY? Longtime readers know I am a bit of a Senate snob, it was my preferred chamber back in my staffer days. So imagine my interest when a new game called YEA or NAY was introduced by Alexander Goddard. It is not a mindless game one can play quickly! I asked Goddard what inspired him to make it, and he tells me “I am a big fan of daily trivia and wordle style games in general, especially Tradle from Observatory of Economic Complexity. I’ve built several prototype games over the years but when I began to play the prototype of Yea or Nay I found it interesting how difficult it was to get a perfect score as Senators, especially in the past, do not always vote along their party lines.” Such votes are more of a rarity these days, but fun to play and to remember.
The Trouble We’ve Come To Love… Matt Labash asks: are we now so addicted to Trump-era turmoil that we won’t know how to live without it? I think we’ll be fine, but it sure has gone on a long time!
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Thanks, Jim! I'm a fellow Cincinnatian and appreciate the work you are doing on the Haitian situation. Looking forward to seeing what you find out in Springfield.
Thanks. Really appreciate the weekly roundup and how your email’s organized to find what we may have missed and what’s coming up.