The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 12th, 2018, the Farewell, My Blue-Eyed Monster Edition.

I'm David Plotz, VALS obscure.

John Dickerson of CBS this morning is in New York

City. Hello, John. Hello, and good morning. And in New Haven is Emily Bavlon of the New York Times

magazine. Howdy, Emily? Hello to both of you. I can see Emily. I cannot see you, John,

on G-chat. And Emily looks about 58 feet tall because of the camera angle.

It's actually quite daunting.

You can intimidate the hell out of me, Emily, even more than usual this week.

Now I'm, like, making myself as throwing my arms out to make myself as scary as possible.

I think I'm going to stand up and just make bare noises.

Ah! Okay.

On this week's Gab Fest, the raid on the office of Michael Cohen, the president's lawyer and fixer,

will it prompt the president to fire Special Counsel Mueller or somebody else,

or will it throw the nation to chaos more than it already is?

I like the second tacked-on part.

I'll just throw the word chaos out there because it must apply.

It does. It does. It's all chaos.

How would we even know anymore when we're in chaos afresh as opposed to the chaos in which we're plopped down in.

I was at a conference this weekend with a bunch of journalists and someone, I think, from the Washington Post said that he was starting to look up almost every day synonyms in the the thesaurus for chaos and turmoil because he was tired of reading them in the words.

Then Paul Ryan is leaving Congress.

Is the House Speaker quitting or is he dropping the mic because he's been so successful?

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