Here's What the Hell Joe Manchin Is Doing

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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nathan Kott, who worked for Joe Manchin for seven-and-a-half years, joins The New Abnormal, and co-host Molly Jong-Fast gets right to the point: "Are you surprised by what you're seeing right now" from the West Virginia Senator?"No," says Kott. "He's the exact same person he's always been. It's just he's getting more attention in the last year than I think he had before." Plus, Molly and co-host Andy Levy run through even more Republican fuckery, starting with Trump's fear of fruit. "If you're that worried about tomatoes, I guess you just assume that everything is very dangerous and you might as well give everyone guns' jokes Molly.

Finally, Marc Caputo of NBC explains what's happening in the great state of Florida, where "conservatives are a lot more Trumpy "now. "In 2016 when Donald Trump won people thought it was a fluke. And then in 2018, when Ron DeSantis won by less than half a point, they're like, 'okay, Andrew Gillum, his gubernatorial opponent was a flawed opponent. And then in 2020, Donald Trump won so big here by a bigger margin than Obama did in 2008 and that kind of got conservatives or Republicans to realize, 'there is nothing to fear from Democrats anymore in Florida, let's keep pushing the envelope.' And so that's where we are. We're in some serious envelope pushing."

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0:45.4	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, no relationship to Kim Jong Un. I'm a left-wing pendant and a writer
0:51.6	at the Atlantic Envote. And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable
0:57.7	news conscientious objective. And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't
1:02.1	go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and
1:07.2	funniest people in science and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
1:12.8	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people
1:17.1	who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
1:20.8	Today we got a really great show for you. Jonathan Cod, who's a former staffer for Joe Manchin,
1:26.1	is going to try to help us understand why Joe Manchin is opposing legislation that would help
1:30.3	so many of his constituents. Then we're going to talk to NBC News National Politics reporter Mark
1:35.4	Caputo on what's going on in the, well, I hesitate to say great state of Florida,
1:40.7	but he's going to help us understand what's happening there. But first, let's have some fun.
1:45.0	Andy Levy. Molly John Festa. Today, of all days, we're going to talk about the hard time that
1:54.1	poor Donald Trump has had. He's had a tough, tough time. Did you know that? Just trying to overturn
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