The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping
So, we have a dominant figure, almost always, there s somebod who is dominating. but the magnitude of their dominance, their overall importance to their media, right-wing media ecosystem, it just shrinks as right-wing media, overtime, diversifies and becomes a lot of different things, and something that exists on a lot of different platforms. so, there will never b somebody as big as the biggest guys of the past secondly, what you see over an over and over again, i don t really why this hasn t sunk in and became kind of a thing tha we make fun of these guys for. but when you really look at it it becomes quite clear tha dominance inside conservativ media, it doesn t tend to cros over into any kind of majo influence. i mean, yeah, you can fill chicago on a labor day weekend in 1936 with your sweaty fervent screaming supporters but you can t get your
Occasionally b somebody in powee will say something true and is swiftly punished for it canit s have that. it s infuriating to watch, but it s infur also, if you look at right, very amusing. these are not sophisticatedcate deceptions. this is not dwight eisenhowerd deg. thily plannin this is your five year old ambling in with frosting on hisy face to tell you he never touch the birthday cake. should that make you mad ?yo of course,ever toubirthday shou mad . but if you re human, you will also laugh at it. takeke? what?ha cake. it s hilarious.ow he the kid hares no idea how ridiculous he is . so with that spirit in mind,g to we re going to devote the next u hour to a special presentation on lying in american politics.la we re going to do our beststay to stay amused because that s ecause tmuch better than being t cod we re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of the year. vladimir putin blew russia s natural gas pipeline to europe. now, why would putin do something like tha
Years not necessarily even the best actors of their generation but they were stars. you think it was something in their personality, something in their ora that you just can t take your eyes off of? sometimes it starts with you know a really good job somebody can identify you with. for me, i worked for years and years and years and i got on thursday night and really great time slot on e.r. and everything changes, my career changed and work changed and my perceptions changed. not like i was a genius along the way. i was finally working in the right vehicle. sometimes it s about the vehicle. julia was pretty woman i think. but i can t explain it and i don t know quite how it works. i know a lot of movie stars and you look at them going, you know, when they walk in the room, you can t take your eye off of them.
Condemnation of violence that is somehow appropriate. b somebody makes a joke. the son of the former president puts up a quip on social media. people draw political conclusions that suit their preexisting narratives. if leaders don t respond with twoo two things and two things only. empathy and a clear and unconditional condemnation of violence this will get a lot worse. it will not get better and more people will be hurt. good point indeed. what questions, congressman, other questions do you want u.s. capitol police to answer about your safety and the safety of your colleagues? well, we re learning. thank god these things are still few and far between. in my career here apart from this ror riff k attack on paul pelosi steve scalise was attacked with a lunatic with a firearm. i remember the day gabby g