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🗓️ 22 December 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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I rant about the dishonesty (and/or stupidity) of House Republicans during the impeachment debate. Also, about the shameless bad faith exhibited by Mitch McConnell. And the unraveling of Donald Trump’s mind – to the extent it was ever raveled. Plus, my frustration with the Democratic presidential debate our candidates failing to lay a glove on Trump. And with the Democratic candidates, who beat up each other, but failed to lay a glove on Trump.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We have a mediocre one today, as usual, because today is just me. |
0:14.6 | It's just me. I've never, I have not done this before. I had to do it myself because I was going crazy this week. |
0:28.1 | During the debate on the floor of the house, |
0:32.8 | I was going crazy because the bad faith and or stupidity of the Republicans, |
0:43.8 | because they kept saying things that they had to know weren't true, |
0:53.6 | or they're insanely stupid. |
0:58.0 | And again, or both, or both. |
1:02.0 | And I'm going to get to that in a few minutes, but we also had a Democratic debate this week. |
1:10.0 | And I want to talk a little bit about that. It didn't drive me |
1:15.8 | nuts, except it did in one way, which is, I believe that the Democratic, in the Democratic |
1:26.1 | debate, their job should be to go after Trump. |
1:30.6 | In that whole debate, I don't think I heard one word about the impeachment, which is really |
1:37.8 | speaks to the man's corruption of who that man is. |
1:44.3 | But there was a lot of self-touting, which I guess you do. |
1:50.0 | You tout yourself. |
1:51.2 | But I think you can tout yourself simply by talking about what's important to the country. |
1:59.0 | And what's important to the country is health care. |
2:03.7 | We won 40 seats in the house because of health care. |
2:10.2 | It was the number one issue by two to one in the exit polls in 18. It's still the number one issue to Americans is health care. |
2:22.4 | And we picked up 40 seats for a reason, which is that the Republicans had promised to repeal and |
2:32.8 | replace. They got the government accidentally after Trump won. |
2:37.4 | No one thought Trump would win. |
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