Bad Republican Political Ploys

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The shocking result of a special election in Texas marks yet another political bungle by the GOP and the Trump White House. Can they stop self-owning and get themselves back on track? Also, landmark events relating to transgenderism, Epstein files horrors, and the wondrous career of Catherine O'Hara. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.0	Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:24.7	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.3	Today is Monday, February 2nd, 2026.
0:29.8	It is Groundhog Day, and we are told that we're going to have six more weeks of winter.
0:34.3	Gee, what a surprise to all of us that winter is not going to end prematurely,
0:40.0	given the conditions under which we are now laboring with garbage piling up in front of all
0:45.4	of our, we have apartment buildings here on the pie. We have houses in the district. We have
0:51.4	houses in Maryland. And one thing you can say is that the garbage is not
0:56.1	being picked up and it's been like a week, week and a half. And the snow, particularly in New York,
1:02.0	is starting to look like a, I don't know, like a dog run, nightmare snow cone.
1:12.6	It's not, I don't think it's healthy for people to live around this much fecal matter.
1:19.2	I'm John Pott Hord's the end of commentary with me as always.
1:22.5	Executive Editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.
1:24.8	Hi, John.
1:25.7	Senior editor Seth Mandel.
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