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Watching Florida’s governor provide a long-awaited replace on his state’s coronavirus response this week, Molly Jong-Quick seen one thing disturbing. “He’s actually struggling to breathe,” she says on the newest episode of The New Irregular.
“Properly, there’s three prospects,” co-host Andy Levy says of Ron DeSantis’ “extremely labored” respiration. “One is he has a chilly. The second is he has COVID and doesn’t wish to inform anyone. And the third is that he’s fully wholesome and he’s doing it as bait to trick the libs into saying he has COVID after which he doesn’t.”
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May the governor have skipped his booster shot, as he has hinted? “I'd be completely shocked if he’s not vaxxed and boosted, or ‘thraxxed,’ as I wish to name it, thrice vaxxed,” Andy says. “They discuss a giant sport and no matter, however all these guys are narcissists and so they’re extremely self-centered. And I imagine that they'll do very like President Trump, who's thraxxed. And I simply imagine that every one these guys will do no matter they will to maintain themselves secure no matter what they do to maintain others secure.”
“I’m simply truly praying that he doesn’t have COVID once more, as a result of he sat there with no masks, surrounded by folks, giving a speech,” provides Andy.
As of now, DeSantis is Trump’s inheritor obvious, says Molly. “He's the closest factor to an inheritor obvious. And when Trump left workplace, there was all this polling that confirmed that these Trumpists would go on to Don Jr… And what occurred over the past 12 months is that the Trump children have actually type of disappeared.”
Additionally on the present, John Heilemann of Showtime’s The Circus, The Recount, and the podcast Hell and Excessive Water talks about Jan. 6 and the second the GOP determined to decide on Trumpism over democracy.
“I bear in mind having a transparent notion in that second not simply that they weren’t gonna break with Trump, however that we have been now on type of a runaway freight practice in the direction of one thing worse,” he says. “And that’s I believe the place we're a 12 months later, is in a a lot worse place than we have been in a 12 months in the past.”
Lastly, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, who represents Massachusetts’ 4th District, explains why he declared on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, that it was going to be an ideal day, and why now he believes crypto regulation is required.
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