About this episode
Kash Patel is making legal threats to try to silence his critics, and Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't even be able to get a security clearance in the regular job market: The parade of incompetence is so bad that Pete Hegseth is being described as the most unqualified Cabinet nominee in American history—and that's before the rape and alcoholism. Plus, Bluesky v Twitter, Russia is running out of military equipment, and are preemptive pardons a good idea? David French joins Tim Miller. show notes Steve Schale's Bulwark piece on the Democratic Party The Southern Baptist Convention's 1998 "Resolution on Moral Character of Public Officials" Longer version of Jake Tapper clip