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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Austin Scott. |
0:05.4 | He's a MAGA Republican congressman from Georgia. |
0:08.7 | And he went on CNN to sit down with Breonna Killer to lament the loss of Jim Jordan's ambitions to become speaker of the House. |
0:20.2 | Now, Austin Scott seems very sad when he's on television, |
0:25.9 | befuddled and lost. You see, Austin Scott is sad. My Kevin, the man who raised more money |
0:36.1 | than any other Speaker of the House in history, according to |
0:41.3 | Austin Scott, has been deposed. Austin Scott seems to think the qualification to be the |
0:49.1 | Speaker of the House is that's the job that goes to the person who raises the most money, as opposed to the person |
0:57.4 | who's a competent political leader, who has some vision, can organize a conference around a set of |
1:06.1 | goals and advance people towards it from all over the country. |
1:19.1 | The simple truth of the matter is that 222 Republicans in the United States Congress that constitute the very thin majority are as dysfunctional, disordered, messed up, and chaotic, |
1:28.5 | as any comparable group of 222 randomly selected people |
1:35.1 | anywhere in the country, meaning this group of 222 people |
1:41.3 | may be America's most dysfunctional group of any random 222 people. |
1:50.0 | It is extraordinary. |
1:53.0 | Now, over and over and over again in this interview, Austin couldn't stop telling Breonna Keeler why it is, |
2:06.7 | there is no Speaker of the House. And you guessed who's to blame. Not the Republicans who |
2:15.6 | control the institution, but the Democrats, the Democrats who did not vote for Kevin McCarthy, a corrupt and cynical man, deeply, deeply involved in inciting an insurrection against the United States House of Representatives |
2:38.9 | for the purposes of tearing down American democracy to make the loser of the presidential |
2:47.2 | campaign the winner. Let's look at some of the images from that day. They came and |
2:54.7 | assaulted police officers, beating them with American flags. Kevin McCarthy did this. |
3:03.0 | Jim Jordan did this. Donald Trump, of course, did it, but he didn't do it alone. This violence, |
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