The MAGA Goon Squad Dug Themselves a Deep Hole After Jan. 6

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In another jam-packed week of GOP fuckery, The New Abnormal co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy looks at look at the party’s profiles in cowardice, starting with the new revelations about House Minority “Leader” Kevin McCarthy cozying back up to Donald Trump and then shifting to Ron DeSantis’ anti-Disney jihad and what Molly calls the party’s new brand of “unpopular populism.”

No one is crying for Disney or its special tax status, says Andy, but it’s still nuts that “the government of Florida is now basically telling businesses, ‘just shut up and don't take any, you know, even the most milquetoast of stands” or we’re going to punish you even if you’re a company that brings the state billions in revenue a year. Then the Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger comes in to break down his recent reporting on the Maga Goon Squad’s new money woes, as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, and Matt Gaetz collectively spent $275,000 more than they took in the first quarter of 2022. Plus, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the second lady of Pennsylvania whose husband, John, is now running for the Senate, and the founder of the Free Story in Braddock, “actually the first free store in the country,” tells Molly how that came from “this idea that some of us have so much and some have so little and there's so much excess, and how can we bring all those worlds together to do good. I really believe in mutual aid and having people connect who maybe would otherwise think they don't have anything in common and the free store was a place where all of that could happen.”

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0:45.4	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, no relationship to Kim Jong Un. I'm a left-wing pendant and a writer
0:51.6	at the Atlantic Envote. And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable
0:57.7	news conscientious objective. And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't
1:02.1	go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and
1:07.2	funniest people in science and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
1:12.8	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal, we'll talk about the people
1:17.1	who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it. What a great show we
1:21.5	have today. First we're going to be joined by Roger Sullenberger, who's a daily beast reporter.
1:25.6	And he's going to tell us about some of the fuckery with the fun raising them. Matt Gates,
1:29.2	Madison Cawthard and Marjorie Taylor Green have been doing. Then we're going to talk to the second
1:33.4	lady of Pennsylvania, Giselle Barreto-Fetterman, who's of course the wife of Cedric Hedda,
1:38.4	John Fetterman, and the founder of the nonprofit Free Store 15104. And she's going to tell us about
1:44.1	life on the campaign trail there right now. But first, let's have some fun.
1:48.3	Andy Levy. Molly John Fest. We learned a lot of stuff that we could have learned in January 2021
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