Good morning and welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is officially the second half of October 2003.

It is going to be an amazing week.

It's going to be an awful week, it's going to be a terrible week, it's going to be a completely

implausible and improbable week.

So who better to talk with than my friend and my colleague,

Will Salitan?

How are you, Will Salitan? How are you, Will.

I'm okay, Charlie, how about you?

I have to admit, I'm going to make a confession here,

I find the whole story about the war in Israel to be very very painful to deal with

So we're going to have to ease into it. We're going to get to it. We have a lot of material on it. I want to spend some time on the absolute insanity of the

speaker's race with one stipulation. We're going to spend a lot of time talking

about how absolutely insane and absurd it is to even consider the possibility of making Jim Jordan the

Speaker of the House of Representatives, right? I mean this is this is crazy. It is however not

nearly as crazy as what the Republicans are planning to do by

nominating Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States leader of the

free world. So let's put this in perspective, right? As nutty as it is to put somebody like Jim Jordan in the presidential

succession, putting Donald Trump, you know, in the presidency. So I mean, when we're evaluating,

you know, whether or not the normy

caucus of the sanity caucus of the Republican Party is finally going to take a

stand kind of remember that they've already made it clear they're not going to

take a stand on the big one.

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