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Chapter 1: What does Jon Stewart think about the Democratic Party's current state?
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I don't know when this is going to be airing in your earphones. God knows how much the world is going to change between the time that we are talking right now and recording it and the time that you are going to be absorbing and consuming it. But coming off the Super Bowl, I had this feeling
How do I draw the parallels between the game we saw, the things that we saw during the Super Bowl and the current moment? Isn't that clever to draw a line between the Super Bowl and our current moment and what the Democrats are? And I'll say this. I am a Giants fan, New York football Giants. And the New York football Giants have experienced a really interesting year in that we kind of sucked.
and shit the bed a bit. And when I say we, I don't mean we, I mean they, but I'm a fan. So I'm going to throw myself into the mix. We won three games. Decisions that we made were terrible, but there was one decision in particular, which was the letting go of a running back by the name of Saquon Barkley.
And Saquon Barkley is a unbelievable, not just talent athletically, but as a human being to really the kind of, undefinable aspects of his personality that make him an incredible teammate and an incredible leader. And the Giants were recorded over the summer saying, yeah, we're not going to pay that guy. Why would we pay that guy?
The most talented running back and human ever maybe to have graced this locker room. No, he's out. And the owner of the Giants said, well, as long as he doesn't go to the Eagles. Well, guess what? He went to the Eagles. It was the personnel decision equivalent of the butt fumble, which is the famous New York Jets, Mark Sanchez running into the ass of his own offensive lineman and losing a fumble.
And the reason I bring it up is, boy... to the giants feel like the Democratic Party in that the personnel decisions that they're, everything that they are doing could not work out more humiliatingly And continues to do so. And I don't know what kind of a draft pick the Democrats are going to get this year. I don't even know if there's a draft lottery in politics or any of those kinds of things.
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Chapter 2: How does Jen Psaki view the Democrats' messaging challenges?
That's not a constitutional crisis. That's just how it goes.
And of course, I don't want to downplay this moment. I don't want to downplay this moment. And it's a very different situation.
Understood.
But one administration does set up things for the next.
Even when there was extrajudicial killings, there was drone type things. Like there's a process in the court's order and injunction, but that is the truth. Like rubber meets the road. It all depends on what the priority is. And certainly he's operating more as a wrecking ball than anybody else, but it's not an unheard. It's just like everything else with him.
It's all, as they would say in Spinal Tap, turned up to 11. Everything is just fucking turned up to 11. But what I thought was most interesting is We can't identify the infrastructure that would make these adjustments.
Nobody can do it.
Nobody can do it.
Yeah. It's the Spider-Man meme of just people pointing to each other.
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