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You know how like on those Supreme Court mornings in June I told you like I was super excited to wake up and it was like my Christmas and Super Bowl and everything else wrapped into one.

This morning I woke up and wondered if I could just go back to sleep.

Now why is that we have a Supreme Court nomination hearing today for a person who's by all I mean it's almost as evident almost as inevitable as any legislative event can be.

It is going to be sitting on the Supreme Court maybe by election day.

And you wanted to go back to sleep.

This confirmation hearing is the most abysmal combination of boring and unpleasant that I think one can have but in all seriousness I do wonder after watching all day today David.

I wonder whether post Trump whenever that may be there will be this sense that we've gotten used to being so entertained by our politics that the normal level of inauthentic boring very predictable stuff like a senator judiciary committee hearing.

We'll be sort of intolerable in a way like on the one hand I think right away people be like oh it's so nice to be bored sort of like that vice presidential debate but I wonder if that will quickly we're off and people will crave the enthusiasm or sorry excitement even negative excitement that they've been having for the last four years.

Because today was really boring David.

Well I think by people who would crave the excitement is a micro slice of the American public I hope so yeah no I know what you mean and I think that it was pretty apparent that from what I saw of the hearings that there was every effort to make them boring like the Democrats are wanting to register their objection to all of this.

And no way shape and form grant some sort of viral anti Christian moment some sort of moment that allows you know Republicans to pounce or seize to use sort of like the media formulation there that this was we don't like this we can't do anything really about it we're going to explain that but we're not really going to go after this person who's sitting in front of us.

There was a lot of cliches yeah a lot of being on message a lot of politician talk which especially in 2020 comes off incredibly inauthentic.

That is true.

So I sort of came in you know the outcome is inevitable or at least unrelated to what was going to go on today no matter what so I was going to sort of pick political winners and losers and stuff that they're really weren't any I mean the Democrats all stuck to their she's going to get rid of the affordable care act that's going to strip health care from millions of people line and they had posters throughout the hearing room of people who had pre-existing.

Conditions who they said we're going to lose their health care and then they told their stories all last state of the union you know let me introduce you to so and so from this town and she likes pizza and apple pie and loves her mother and has a pre existing condition.

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