Tell me about Tim Miller

I hate his string of pearls. So Barbara Bush.

He's a complicated character. And now that he's a reformed former GOP strategist, he is part of The Bulwark team and produces content for that group along with Charlie Sykes.

He also patched up his contentious relationship with Dan Savage a couple of years ago. They just did a live event together.

I like him. He seems like a good guy, but I cannot imagine why he spent so many years with the GOP.

He and his husband have a 5-year old Black daughter.

Does anyone know anything about his husband?

He's OK for a middle-aged man.

R5 Not that kind of liar!

He wrote a book about his delusions as a pre-Trump Republican and also how Trump’s candidacy finally opened his eyes. It’s bitchy, fast reading, and insightful.

So the horrid presidency of GWB didn’t bother him?

R8 must not watch much of MSNBC these last several years. It’s been filled with Never Trumpers like Miller.

I really enjoy his podcast—he’s great at calling out hypocrisy on the right. His takedowns of Tomi Lahren and Dan Crenshaw were especially epic.

Love me some Tim Miller!!

My hubby watches Tim Miller all the time.

He's at his best, or at his least annoying, with Sam Stein on Youtube/The Bulwark. They interact very entertainingly.

Love his performance art pieces!

I like him best when he’s talking with Sarah and JVL.

I want to be fucked by Tim Miller the director.

He was brought up in a Republican household. Like many gay Republicans it is all they really knew. He was a political nerd since he was young. Apparently Trump become the nominee and then president in 2016 was the breaking point for him and many like him. For some even the Trump presidency wasn't bad enough, and the events of January 6th was the their breaking point.

I’d fuck him, face down.

Jon Lovett made a joke about having a threesome with him back in their early political days and I was both surprised and intrigued. That’s all I got on this one.

I bet he outs those pearls in his anus like Ben Wa balls.

Dirty fag!

Gross!

R19.Nothing surprises me anymore.

R2 Charlie Sykes left the Bulwark gang months ago. If only they got rid of Bill Kristol instead. Tim and Jon Lovett should do more segments together, but I don’t think they’re sexually compatible. I think Lovett is engaged again to a non binary person? Tim is probably too sexually inhibited from being a closeted Republican for too long. He didn’t want anything to do with today’s AI Trump toe sucking Elon video.

Tim should grow his hair out again.

I like Tim. And I think the pearls are for clutching.

R22 that’s why it surprised me because I thought Tim would be too conservative for that but Lovett said they were “splash buddies” so how else am I supposed to interpret that? Something went on.

He’s taller than I would’ve thought. About 6’1”.

Joy is off the AIR R20, move on to some less dated humor.

r5 wrong Tim Miller.

Sounds like a piss fetish, r25.

R24 I wear my pearls on the inside.

I like him. Though sometimes he looks kind of greasy/unkept. Other times he looks freshly showered and clean. Kind of odd. I love it when he is with JVL and Sarah. Cannot stand Bill Kristol.

Tim needs a trip to the mall dental bleaching store. Either that or give up the cigs.

R31, did you know he, Sarah & JVL are “best friends”?

I watch The Bulwark on YouTube more than MSNBC these days.

I do, too, R34.

Does anyone know anything about Sarah’s wife? All I know is that her name is Karen.

R29 I don’t think Tim would have even let that suggestion air

I didn’t even know Sarah was gay…gay Republicans baffle me

R31 I loathe Bill Kristol. Glad I'm not the only one.

Sam Stein is adorable. Love that twinkle in his eyes!

I give Bill Kristol a lot of credit for being a consistent, relentless OG Never Trumper. I contrast him most favorably with the likes of an unapologetic 2016 Jill Stein supporter Dr. Eddie Glaude, who somehow is given a regular platform on Nicolle’s show.

He just did a Raging Moderates podcast episode with Jessica Tarlov (the lone(?) Dem on The Five on Fox).

He is witty with an easy way about him. They talked about recent news and him being supportive of undocumented immigrants.

I only listened but am linking the YT.

I for one enjoyed his threesome with Cameron Katsky and Dylan Geick.

I like him and his pearl clutching. I liked his book too, especially the chapter about Alyssa Farah, but was disappointed that the audible version was not his own voice but that of an actor. In the book he tells how he and Sarah would always book an hotel room together and most of the people thought they were a couple and were baffled to learn that no, Tim's gay and Sarah's a lezzie. So I can totally believe that they're best buddies IRL.

Also, his brother is gay as well and married to a black man. And he's not Jewish but catholic (many people assumes people named Miller are Jewish). Their conservative catholic parents must have been thrilled to have that many gay sons!

He likely would have been press secretary in a Jeb Bush administration.

What did he say about Alyssa Farah?

Is JVL gay too? He pings to me. I never watched any of these YouTube people until the last six months are so. Now they’re all that YouTube recommends and I feel like I’m wasting time watching too many of them.

I don't remember the specifics about Alyssa Farah but he only met her once, for an interview, and he says that she was very elusive and hard to delineate her personality and that she could be standoffish one minute and very warm the next minute on and off and on and off, and it was all very weird.

r19 Lovett and those ugly skirts he insists on wearing are a fugly package. Just , ew.

[quote] Joy is off the AIR [R20], move on to some less dated humor.

Thanks, you butt-licking abomination. Don’t forget to refill your doxycycline. Who knows what bacteria is crawling out of those glory holes you frequent.

Disgusting!

🤮

R49 I actually think he has nice legs and I like to see ‘em *shrug*

The former Republicans, the never-Trump gang at the Bulwark, are the most incisive and effective critics of Trump and MAGA. Center-left critics (c.f. Pod Save America, regular Dems) and the far left (Best of the Left, DSA) just spin in their own conceptual conceits (and I am a leftist). Miller is quick, insightful, funny, articulate.... has become one of my favorite analysts of current politics. Sarah Longwell is sharp, but occasionally turgid and insular. Stein is cute and funny but not real insightful. SVL is a goofus who should never be in real time commentary - he's a better writer. Kristol is an artifact from an ancient era... Occasionally there are other interesting personalities - I would like to go deeply into Andrew Egger.

In short... as a leftwing old hippie... I am astonished that I like these ex-Repubs at Bulwark more than... John Stewart, the ex-Obama crew, Meidas Touch, Brian Tyler Cohen.

[quote] Stein is cute and funny but not real insightful.

Unlike most of his Bulwark colleagues, Sam Stein is not a Never Trumper. He was always a liberal pundit.

His newest podcast episode with Cameron Casky is the gayest thing I've watched that's not porn.

Made even gayer by Dylan Geick. I was half expecting Cameron to throw on a blond permed wig and a cheap dress and lipsync for his life to I Need a Man by The Eurythmics.

There's a new episode today with Joshua Rush that I was referring to

Ok, thanks. I'll check that out!

Same here, r52. I started regularly following these folks and George Conway, Rick Wilson, Tom Nichols, Anne Applebaum, and Ron Filipowski and only a few Democratic pundits. Take me back 10 years and I wouldn't have believed it.

I remember The Bulwark’s Mona Charen as a reliably conservative talking head on CNN’s Capitol Gang. But she’s now an OG Never Trumper.

[quote] The former Republicans, the never-Trump gang at the Bulwark, are the most incisive and effective critics of Trump and MAGA. Center-left critics (c.f. Pod Save America, regular Dems) and the far left (Best of the Left, DSA) just spin in their own conceptual conceits (and I am a leftist). Miller is quick, insightful, funny, articulate.... has become one of my favorite analysts of current politics. Sarah Longwell is sharp, but occasionally turgid and insular. Stein is cute and funny but not real insightful. SVL is a goofus who should never be in real time commentary - he's a better writer. Kristol is an artifact from an ancient era... Occasionally there are other interesting personalities - I would like to go deeply into Andrew Egger.

[quote] In short... as a leftwing old hippie... I am astonished that I like these ex-Repubs at Bulwark more than... John Stewart, the ex-Obama crew, Meidas Touch, Brian Tyler Cohen.

I agree with a lot of this. For some reason, I find the Bulwark gang to be more down to earth than the annoying far left twats on The Majority Report with Sam Seder.

We finally learn of the origin of JVL bring “best friends” with Sarah today on and pod JVL had with pod save bro Dan Pfiefer. Basically, Sarah got him a job. I need to make friends that can hook me up with work.

Every gay Republican is gay married. After long careers of pushing rancid homophobic, anti-marriage equality jagoffs they are ALWAYS the first enjoying the benefits of hard-working gays and people who truly believe in equality.

ALL Tim Miller types will be forever regarded with a seriously jaundiced eye no matter what. Fuck off.

[quote] ALL Tim Miller types will be forever regarded with a seriously jaundiced eye no matter what. Fuck off.

And that's exactly how I feel about Berniecrats who voted for Jill Stein in '16 or just sat the election out. That was THE critical election.

Great guy and grateful for his efforts.

Yes r33. Scissor sisters

I am a fan of The Bulwark. I like all the hosts and contributors including Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell. However, it still pisses me off that at one point--and for a long time--all of them pushed the Repig agenda and its discrimination against gay people. And they continued to do so for many years.

It wasn't until Trump came along that they decided it was time to leave the Repigs. It was disgusting and still is. I wish they would all account and tell us their reason for their Repig support and why it took Trump for them to leave the party. If they are all so smart and insightful, they did not live by their principles that they seem to espouse now. The Bushes, Gingrich, John Boehner, Tom Foley, Dennis Hassert, etc., weren't enough to turn them away from the Repigs?

It's baffling, and therefore hard for me to fully get on board with them because I always think that after Trump, they will head back to the Repigs because that is where their hearts are.

[quote]His newest podcast episode with Cameron Casky is the gayest thing I've watched *that's not porn*.

Oh honey, I'll take it you haven't seen the B-roll...

[quote] I always think that after Trump, they will head back to the Repigs because that is where their hearts are.

One, MAGA will continue to dominate the GQP long after Trump leaves the scene. Two, there will be no welcome home parties for the "heretics" who left the party & collaborated with the "enemy."

R68 Agreed, there is no longer a Republican Party, though they are still using the name. It's like the collapse of the Whig party before the Civil War.

Although I am regular consumer of Bulwarkites and their views.... every now and then they surface something about NeoCon militarism, or anti-deficit austerity and I remember they are built on a different platform than me. But given the Threats we're facing, they are still very helpful canaries gasping their last breaths.

Republican presidents have run up the national debt over the last 45 years at a ratio of 2-1 over Democratic presidents. When Republicans are in office they spend like there's no tomorrow, but when Democrat president is in office, it is then time for Republican politicians and right wing pundits to want fiscal conservatism. The anti-deficit austerity they are pushing now is to eliminate most programs that benefit poor and cut government in order to pay for the massive tax cuts they plan to give to the richest and the corporations. It is a coup of the government and a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. It is Ayn Rand's fever dream come to life.