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Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the Bulwark. Oops. There are some more leaked Nazi texts from the Republicans. This time it is not just a Young Republican group. It's a key appointee for Donald Trump to a high ranking position within his administration. Paul and Gracia, who's been nominated to head up the Office of the Special Counsel. You know, a powerful office, obviously. Special counsels have looked at investigations inside government. And Star famously represented the Office of Special Counsel in the Clinton investigation. So a key position, important position, powerful position in the administration. And Donald Trump has tapped this guy, Pauline Gracia, who I've only known as a Twitter troll in the past. It was ridiculous, preposterous nomination from the start, like in the vein of a Hagseth or a Cash Patel nomination. But this guy's even, even more of a clown than them. I don't say that lightly. Like I followed this person on Twitter for a while. Their whole oeuvre is just offensive, racist and stupid. So to put this guy in charge of the office of the Special Counsel is a mockery of the Office of Special Counsel. And it's a signal that you want to weaponize that office to go after your opponents. And so what Donald Trump has done is put in, in Gracia and in these leaked texts he says, among other things, that he has a Nazi streak and that the MLK Jr. Holiday should be tossed into the seventh circle of hell. Yeah, that's right. He says that it's him. He self identifies as having a Nazi streak. Before any of the magas out there start saying like, oh, you guys can't take a Nazi joke. You know, we're just joking, we're just being contrarian. We're just making offensive jokes as a commentary on the woke PC. Well, in Gracia, one of his previous scandals, if you want to call that out, controversies, was his promotion of a valid white nationalist, Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes, the leader of the Groipers, the sort of alt right group of young people. And Gracia was supportive of him and floated him as an up and coming person to watch inside the MAGA movement. And now we have these texts and you ask how they get out. Right? Like I think that's a sub story I always hear, because you assume it's other magazine, the text. And Politico says they interviewed two people in the chat and gave them anonymity after they expressed concerns about personal and professional repercussions. But they said that they were providing these texts because they don't want somebody like In Gracia, in charge of this office. One of the quotes says the government should be staffed with experienced people who are taken seriously. Kind of a funny quote talking about the Trump government. That's how crazy it is. This guy is on a text chain of magas and a couple of them are looking at him and saying, you're too crazy for us. Okay? The president is posting AI videos of himself shitting on Harry Sisson. But you guys, you on this chain are too crazy to work in that government, that clown car of a government, that idiocracy. That's pretty telling. So let's go through some of the texts here. And one of them, he says, MLK Jr. Was 1960s George Floyd and his holiday should be ended and tossed in the seventh circle of hell where it belongs to. One participant replied, jesus Christ. I guess somebody in there thought that was too much. He doubled down. He says, no malignant. I'm gonna let you guys. I don't know if there are any old Italians watching this channel. And I'll let you guys tell me how to pronounce that. No malignon holidays from Kwanzaa spelled incorrectly to MLK Jr. Day to day, Black History Month to Juneteenth, every single one needs to be eviscerated. My understanding is that word I can't pronounce is a Italian slur for black people. So In Gracia is like dropping old timey slurs from across the pond on these text messages. And then we go on to the text regarding the Nazis. Someone else in the chain texts, paul belongs in the Hitler Youth with uber groupenfuhrer Steve Bannon. Paul replies, I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it. Earlier, as I mentioned, he'd been a proponent of Nick Fuentes. So others in the chain replied, also referencing that. And somebody replies saying, there's a new show on Rumble coming starring Nick Fuentes and Paul Adolf in Gracia. To which In Gracia replied, lmao, laughing my ass off. So I guess one other text should be worth mentioning. Shocking. He sent a text saying, never trust a Chinaman or an Indian. So it's not just black folks he's going after. It's not just Jews, it's everybody except the brave Italians. In Gracia. In addition to this, it should be mentioned also was investigated within this White House. This White House investigates nobody. So it's pretty telling. Apparently when he in his previous job as a, as the liaison for DHS and the administration, he brought some younger staffers including younger women, to some kind of meeting or retreat in Orlando at the Ritz Carlton. When they got to the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room and Gracia said that she would be staying with him. They later learned that he had canceled her hotel room and plotted that out to force her to stay with him. So Rick Scott, I should say senator from Florida, has already said that he is not going to support Engracia's nomination. So a rare show of any kind of backbone from the Rick Scott exoskeleton. So, you know, surprising, you know, since you can see every kind of vein and bone and muscle inside Rick Scott's body and you can see the fact that he has a shriveled spine. It's interesting that in this case, it kind of, I don't know, sort of became a little more erect for once, his spine just more straight up as opposed to how it usually looks. So Rick Scott, that means he can only lose a couple of other Republicans. We've not heard from the usual suspects who've been voting against some nominees, Susan Collins, Murkowski, every once in a while, Thom Tillis. So we'll see whether this guy gets through. And I think that this is a two prong story. One is the types of people that are being put into this administration, people that are just blatantly unqualified, people that have long track records, public track records, of advancing conspiracies and advancing vile smears against marginalized groups. The more ostentatiously racist and crazy and conspiratorial you are, the better, obviously, if you're also ostentatiously pro Trump. So he's trying to get loyalists in there, but not just loyalists, like the most ridiculous and clownish loyalists. And he's trying to put them in places where they can execute his campaign of retribution from within the White House. And so whether or not they're incompetent doesn't matter. It's actually kind of a benefit if they're incompetent, because people that are incompetent are. Don't have the skills, you know, to navigate around doing whatever crazy stuff Donald Trump and his henchmen want them to do. You can see this. Another prime example is you can see this in a story over at Lawfare. Great story. The new prosecutor for the Eastern District that's going after Comey and James started texting. One of the reporters over there at Lawfare, Anna Bauer, never said that she was off the record. That story just launched today. Hopefully we'll be talking to Anna for the channel soon. But you should go check that out over in Lawfare. I mean they're, they've brought on board these people who have no idea what they're doing. But that's again it's a feature, not a bug here. They want that at some levels. You know, they want some Steve Millers and Russ Vogue people that can actually execute. But in these other positions they want total clowns who they know will be loyal and who have no other opportunities outside of the government so they'll do whatever they say no matter how outlandish or illegal. So that's one thing that's happening. We'll see if the Senate shuts down this guy. The fact that Rick Scott has said he's voting against him I think augurs towards a more likely than not like that they shut him down but it is definitely not a slam dunk. I mean they confirmed Cash Patel. So here's what we are. But the other thing it tells us is just, it's just more examples of how deep the rot goes like inside the younger and this guy looks to terrible for his age but you know he's around the age of some of the older young Republicans of that other text chain. But of that like 30 something and younger Republican operative class inside that world this type of racism, this type of cruelty and just trashy behavior is rewarded right now. And people that don't want to participate in that, that have class, that get offended, that have some virtues that they're not going to back down from, have some principles they're not going to back down from. People like Miles who we published in today's Bulwark. They're going to leave. They're going to leave just like Miles did and some of them are going to do it quietly. I appreciate that Miles came out publicly and told us his story but then you've got other people that are gonna, that would never have been in these positions like Paul and Gracia never would have sniffed this type of role in the Bush administration. Surely there's some competent people in the Bush administration but like this, like somebody performatively buffoonishly incompetent was not going to be, you know, put in this role some, an actual person with experience and some judgment would be put in the role. And so, so, so now you're attracting in people who this is the opportunity of a lifetime. You know, if you're a crazy racist buffoon, if you're a total clown, if you're somebody that like you know, crashed out of college because, you know, you're so irresponsible. But you, you got very excited about posting Donald Trump memes on the Internet and those memes got a lot of retweets. You know, you're part of the dilly squad or whatever Trump's meme team is, then like, this is the opportunity of a lifetime to have a job that you would never have any other time. And so there's a self selection process here where the younger MAGA Republicans do tend to be more on the culture war. Right. Than their past cohorts were, but they're also kind of selecting in other people who are looking for community or looking for opportunity who are, you know, the most vile in their respective corners of the world. So I just think that, you know, the more we see behind the scenes of the kind of conversations that are happening in the younger among the younger Republican operative class, the more we see that we're in for a rocky ride ahead with, with this posse. So there you go. Subscribe to the feed when there are text change. I'll be here. I've been hearing some rumors that Will Summers got a banger coming. So maybe we'll get the Fingerling potato trio back together for you guys soon. But I wanted to hop on and do this one myself. Go check out the original reporting in Politico about Paul and gracias. Appreciate y' all.