Kara Swisher: Jim Jordan, Legislative Terrorist
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I am Charlie Sake. By the way, by the time you listen to this, |
| 0:12.4 | you'll probably be a lot smarter than we are because |
| 0:15.0 | you'll know what the House GOP did. Whether or not Jim Jordan is in fact the Speaker of the House of |
| 0:21.9 | Representatives and our guest that is |
| 0:24.4 | Kara Swisher Kara I had to tell you something can I make a confession sure go ahead |
| 0:28.3 | the stupidity really does burn does it why are. Does it? Why? Are you surprised? Yeah well no no I shouldn't be right? |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah I mean we've been coming to this for so long it just the fact that we have to talk about the |
| 0:41.1 | possibility as absurd as ludicrous as Jim Jordan |
| 0:45.4 | becoming speaker. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.6 | Probably one of the least effective members in a pretty mediocre body. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah. Co-conspirator, complete idiot. |
| 0:54.8 | What fascinates me is this logic. |
| 0:57.1 | That Jim Jordan is a legislative terrorist, now that's John Boehner's. |
| 1:01.6 | He's a legislative terrorist and he's an extremist. |
| 1:03.7 | So the argument is, okay, so we need a terrorist in there to keep the other terrorists |
| 1:08.0 | align. We have an extremism problem. So let's select an extremist, right? |
| 1:12.0 | Well, apparently he's nice now. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:15.0 | That's what I'm hearing. |
| 1:16.0 | You know, there's a really good line, |
| 1:18.0 | sorry I sound so bad, I have a cold, I have toddlers. |
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