We Are Living in a Post-Rational World

[0] Welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

[1] Charlie Sykes is enjoying a well -deserved early Thanksgiving Day, and I'm thrilled to be here in his place.

[2] I'm A. Be Stoddard columnist at the Bullwark, and I'm delighted to be joined by JVL.

[3] We missed him.

[4] We need some JVL content.

[5] He was terribly missed at last week's Bullwark Live event.

[6] So it's really exciting to see you, JVL.

[7] The only good thing about your last week of your life was that you were, I believe, on a Trump cleanse.

[8] and I'm really happy about that for you.

[9] Oh, yeah.

[10] Did anything happen?

[11] Does he still exist?

[12] Is that a thing still?

[13] Unfortunately, he does, and he didn't make much news, but we're going to grind through what he's doing.

[14] I want to open, just with sort of a pre - Thanksgiving level setter that James Comer said on Maria Barterromo show that he believes that every American is angry about Joe Biden's corruption.

[15] So just thought that would just get us in the right place as we begin.

[16] Donald Trump, as we debate all the time, is not in hiding, but is not as visible to the American public as he once was.

[17] And over on Truth Social, he's been making a lot of videos.

[18] And the latest ones are very strange because he's not wearing the makeup, and the hairdo looks a little bit different.

[19] And I don't know what's going on with that.

[20] The lighting is weird, but he's not in, like, you know, his mango state.

[21] I don't know.

[22] Maybe he lost his makeup guy.

[23] maybe that person got sick, maybe Donald Trump can't do his makeup anymore.

[24] I thought it was interesting, but he wants JVL for the debates to stop and the candidates to get out.

[25] So he's very excited.

[26] The audience should know, in case they've been tuning out, all of the polling remains the same.

[27] Nothing has changed.

[28] Joe Biden loses to Trump in every single solitary matchup.

[29] And Trump is very excited about this.

[30] Great polls just released, best ever.

[31] And he cites a Harvard Harris poll, which is always, always biased to Trump.

[32] Trump's 67 to Sanctimonious 9, bird brain Nikki Haley at 8, Ramoswami at 5, Christy dead in the water, a total loser.

[33] And then he says he's up 7 to 10 % on Corka Joe Biden.

[34] And he says the RNC must save money on lowest ever rating debates.

[35] Use it against the Democrats to stop the steel.

[36] revamp the RNC now.

[37] So that's where he is.

[38] And any of us wanting to hear more about the useless force race on the Republican side are going to be really sorry because I'm sure the RNC will do his bidding soon and find a way to shut this all down.

[39] And I know Nikki Haley is having her wonderful surge and she's feeling so good.

[40] But we all know JVL the most if we've paid attention to the polling that Donald Trump obviously pretty much has this thing locked up, something completely crazy happens.

[41] So JV