Hello everyone and welcome to a new week here at The Damage What I'm John Arola Francesca

Ferrentini. Would you like to make it a fantastic Monday?

Woo, yes I would. I will buy all of the vowels that are in my name.

I got, there's all the vowels except for why, which is not actually a vowel. We can talk about it

later. Happy Monday John. Happy Monday, excited to enter this week. The theme of the news,

at least so far this week is, man, people are dumb. There's a lot of dumb people in there saying a

lot of things they really are. This would be the smart week, you know? No, that doesn't exist.

But how was your show this weekend? Oh, it was great. John Nichols of the nation came through

and he actually changed my mind about the election. And apparently all of the victories that

progressives had that no mainstream outlet is covering. Obviously like in Boston, like even in

Austin voting to not increase the police force. Even where in Minneapolis, right?

Where it was like, yeah, there was no vote to defund the police force. But it got

44% of the vote, which is pretty huge. You know, the entire idea of performing the police being

demonized by virtually every media outlet for like a solid two years. But that's not a storyline.

So anyway, yes, listen to the BITUATION ROOM podcast. It really put me in a better mood,

honestly, to hear from John. And he's so smart. So, yeah. I always feel better when I hear from John.

I talked to myself constantly. By the way, though, I do have bad news for you on that little attempt

that you made to change the narrative of the elections. Unfortunately, in the same way that

moderate's losing is the fault of the progressives. Progressives winning is the fault of the moderates.

So we got to give them the W on this one. So sorry, anyway, we got a lot that we're going to be

talking about through the course of today, including the passage of the infrastructure bill.

And now the fallout against everyone. So that's going to be fun. We've got a disaster,

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