Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm Majat Ali.

And Woj. My God, I don't even know what we should talk about because there is just so much.

We can go from insurrectionists to sentencing for Donald Trump's COO to climate change to

everywhere that you want to go.

So you kick us off.

What's on your mind?

You know, I was thinking as we kick up 2023 and we have extremists controlling the House.

And I think you and I agree that there should be a new rule that we should make the word

moderate Republican extinct.

It should be like invisible Pepsi or Velcro or like friggin the pager.

It shouldn't exist.

So we have the extremists now who control the house. And, you know, you talk about Alan Weisselberg who just openly crime with Donald Trump,

obviously for years. Over a decade. Dude got five months in prison. And yet there are black folks

who are serving a multi-year sentence for simply

possessing drugs and weed, I should mention, which is, by the way, super profitable for white

hipsters in Oregon now, just throwing it out there in Washington, D.C. But I was sitting here thinking

about, as of this week, in a party-line vote, all the Republicans in the House have now created

a new select subcommittee that will investigate, Danielle, the quote unquote weaponization

of the federal government, which is to be chaired by Representative Jim Jordan, he who does not

wear jackets and who

apparently turns a blind eye to groomers in his own midst when he was a wrestling coach.

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