yes, i know. oh, all right. stop happy thursday, everyone. it you would seem silly now, but once upon a time, america trusted anthony fauci. during the pandemic, we were all scared and confused then fauci was a comforting brooklyn accented voice of calm and some believed a man of his stature might even lead them to pot of gold. but according to his this week before the official select subcommittee on the covid pandemi tc, as doc the dwarf known as doc, coppedk to the following admissionadmis the six foot social distancing rule had no basis in science the lab. leak isn t just a conspiracy theory vaccine t just . mandates and travel bans were a mistake. and oh, that s previously his saying the lockdowns weren t his fault. so what exactly did he getl be right? that the media will believe anything if it comes from a toadstooli m l, a lab coat? kudos to chairman brad wenstrup holding fauci s tiny hooves to the fire ands refrainingto throwing him out a window. let s start w
the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is
supreme court because we re going to win the sup. so i think that s part of where i m different than trump. but i do think i can reach the next generation and reunitereunit this country and dare i sae y, the next generation, partly because i am from the next generationonause i. and so that s what i mean by fresh legs. gotcha. but, greg, i think there s something deeper going.there the right now. this is important, though. we re about to fall for a tricim k t . i think this system wants to effectively narrow this field down ield dow to two horse racetrump between donald trump and a puppet who they can controe pa then to eliminate donaldte housp from contention and trottr their puppet to the white house. i think that s the game hiding in plain sightthat s the and stg us in the face. and i think we cannot fall into that. if you think this system is going to even let donald get anywhere near that white house, i want the peopleuse, i of this country to open their eyes. and once you see
instinct to reward failure and mediocrity. nothing against the current occupant of that office. , ho it seems like a fine person. but given the record, how could anybody how could any rnc member for a moment consider supporting that person? id againer, i don t understand it. well, thank you, tucker.arthy i mean, one thing that kevin mccarthy has going for him actually , is that heyears hasn t failed foasr the last six years as the speaker of the house. i mean, that s something that he has in his column.r th and i can t sae y the same for, the incumbent at the rnc. she s a nicebut person.over but over the last six years,sene we ve lost the house, the senate and the white house. med worse than that, we have a sclerotic system at the rnc where members have almost no say. we don t even get to takeat the a look at a line item budget. if you r le on a budget committee. and we seem to bk e sinking into this morass of failure and simply explaining it away as well, we made more voterwe m cont