Vermin

Episode #156

Bill and Phil discuss what to make of Trump’s threat to put millions of immigrants in camps and calling his political opponents vermin, look at the high stakes meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, examine the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules, and close with a spirited game of what’s more stupid.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans” by Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in The New York Times

• “Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini” by Marianne LeVine in The Washington Post

• “The Authoritarianism Is The Point” by Dan Drezner

• “U.S. Manages Expectations of a Breakthrough Before Biden and Xi Meet” by Katie Rogers and David E. Sanger in The New York Times

• “The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke” by Ian Millhiser in Vox

• “We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?” by Jesse Wegman in The New York Times

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