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“I really don’t consider that Congress is that dumb. No, I’m simply kidding. I do,” says co-host Molly Jong-Quick, who notes that a few of that is “performative moronic” like when MIT graduate Thomas Massie tried in charge COVID-19 deaths on Medicaid or Sen. John Kennedy, who attended Oxford, circulated faux information about President Biden handing out crack pipes.
Alternatively, when Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Nancy Pelosi of main the “Gazpacho police,” she’s only a moron—albeit one crafty sufficient to show round and promptly elevate cash off of her personal stupidity.
“I do know you at all times say Louie Gohmert is the dumbest member of Congress,” co-host Andy says to Molly. “And that’s true on some days, however I feel it’s like watching the sports activities standings, the place sooner or later somebody’s in first place after which one other workforce will get on an actual streak after which they’re in first place. It’s the identical factor right here. Gohmert was positively a preseason favourite to win the division, however you will have folks like Greene who go on these sizzling streaks of stupidity and so they climb up the standings. And subsequent factor you already know, they’re solely a take out of first place.”
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The issue, says Molly, is that “we're in a scenario the place Republicans are genius messengers… You don’t have a democratic messaging operation like this. MSNBC has folks like me saying issues that Democrats are doing unsuitable. And I say this as somebody who's a Democrat! However on Fox Information and Fox Enterprise, you will have people who find themselves actually saying ‘Donald Trump is a genius. It is best to simply watch what he does. He’s superb.’ They’re so centered. They usually’re so on-message, and so they principally say the identical lies again and again till there isn't any fact.”
Certainly, “the Democrats have to battle again on this,” says Andy, and personal the reality “the identical approach that the Republicans personal the lies and repeat them again and again. What I’m saying is it will be good if the Democrats did that with the reality—simply personal the reality and get it on the market and hammer it residence.”
He concludes that “the folks they’re afraid of getting mad at this, they’re not gonna vote for (Democrats) anyway, that’s my agency view and possibly I’m unsuitable… however I simply kind of really feel such as you go down together with your greatest shot, lay out your case.”
Plus, The Every day Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo breaks down one other wild week of right-wing media fuckery, and former Rep. Max Rose rejoins the pod to speak about his forthcoming rematch with “By no means Trumper” turned Trump fanatic Nicole Malliotakis and the prospect of “worst mayor within the historical past of New York Metropolis” Invoice de Blasio difficult him for the Democratic nomination forward of that.
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