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Well, folks, we are back. It is a brand new year. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful New Year's. And now it all begins. So this is going to be a very big year. President Trump is slated to be certified as the president of the United States today. The normal certification process will go through as planned in the Congress.
of the United States, and he will also have his Speaker of the House. So President Trump had endorsed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for re-election. There were, as usual, a coterie of people who were very concerned about Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. As I have been saying for... I don't know, years at this point. It turns out the Speaker of the House has a very hard job.
You have to cobble together a coalition of people across various party lines, and then you have to somehow materialize a majority to do things. So the job of the Speaker of the House is not, in fact, to be, quote-unquote, an ideological thought leader. There are plenty of people whose job that is. It is the job of the Speaker of the House to actually get done what can be done.
It is to get as much of the pie as humanly possible. And the problem with many of the ideologues, particularly in Congress, but also in the commentariat, is that when they suggest that the Speaker of the House has the magical Nietzschean ability to simply impose his will on Congress and get everything that you could possibly want, they are lying. It is simply not true.
So this all came to fruition over the break. So on Friday, despite the attempts of people like Thomas Massey, the representative from Kentucky, to prevent Speaker Johnson from being reelected. Johnson was reelected. Here was Massey looking rather disillusioned, actually, in this particular clip, trying to make the case against Speaker Johnson in the most colorful possible terms.
You can pull all my fingernails out. You can shove bamboo up in them. You can start cutting off my fingers. I am not voting for Mike Johnson tomorrow. And you can take that to the bank.
Well, he didn't, but everybody else did because President Trump signaled his support for Mike Johnson. And the reason that he did that is because Johnson is as good as it's going to get. Johnson is, in fact, a very conservative speaker of the House. He is faced with an extraordinarily slim majority.
And there are always going to be people in Congress who have decided that the best thing that they can do is go on television and spout rather than actually, you know, doing the job of being in Congress. But the job of being in Congress, is very different from the job of saying what it is that you think about politics. The job of being in Congress, again, is to get as much of the pie as possible.
And that changes pretty radically depending on whether you are in the minority or whether you are in the majority, whether there's a Democrat in the White House or whether there is a Republican in the White House.
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