Confronting the Chaos with Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
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It is February 4th. It is a beautiful Tuesday. I'm going to say morning. It is sort of morning-ish. It is fucking freezing here. And the news is moving in a manner that I have not quite seen it move in quite some time. The deluge is very much that Maxell commercial where you're sitting on the chair and it's just blowing past you. I don't know. By the time this gets to your Sony Walkman, as you're listening to it, people still use those. Is that correct? Is that still the divisive choice for the young people? The Sony Discman, Walkman? I don't know what will be happening. Everything I am saying to you right now could in fact be moot. Here's what I would imagine that the war with Canada is entering its It's third day.
Our targeted smart bombs at their syrup factories have been effective. It has limited hopefully civilian casualties and spread an air of fear and delicious smelling maple all throughout the land. The border is in fact packed, I would think, with Americans fleeing towards Canada and Canadians standing there pushing us back, trying not to let us get in there and fuck up their lower rents than ours. I've not seen actually anything like this. The chaos of launching tariff wars in the morning, calling them off by afternoon and claiming victory as though somehow in the intervening six to eight hours of bluster, the countries that you had challenged had fallen to their knees in prayer. No, dear Lord. not our wheat, not our lumber. We'll do whatever you say.
It is obviously the strategy of create chaos, act like you've solved the chaos by calling down the chaos when you realize the American public is turning against your chaos and then claim victory and expect to be praised for it. It is very reminiscent of, it's something my dog used to try to pull. The dog, I can recall, he used to vomit uh on the rug and i apologize to any of you who are listening to this podcast in a cafe uh but the dog would would vomit on the rug and then he would eat it and then he would look up at me like huh how about that i just cleaned up for you how about a treat and i'm like but you fucking threw up that's you you did that you don't get a treat and so that is my plea to the american people
the trump administration vomits on the carpet of our great nation and then uh the metaphor is about to break up but and then eats the i think i think i've made myself understood uh and i cannot think of a really a worse lead-in to the very respectable guest that we have on our program today. So I'm just going to get to that and hope that you don't remember any of this, that there is a neuralyzer that just went off for you. But we are delighted to be speaking with a gentleman today who is in the center of the storm who is trying to find a way to hold back those things that will be corrosive and corrupting to this American experiment. So let us get to the guest now.
Who is the guest on the show today?
All right, so we're very excited today. We are pleased to be joined by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, representing New York's eighth congressional district since 2013. Brooklyn, sir, how are you? Good. It's great to be with you. It's very nice to see you, sir. How are you holding up? It's, I assume...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Jon Stewart's introduction about?
0:01–5:11
2
Who is the guest on the show today?
5:11–6:03
3
What challenges is Hakeem Jeffries facing in Washington?
6:03–8:03
4
What strategies are Republicans using to influence government policy?
8:03–16:47
5
How are Democrats responding to Republican strategies?
16:47–25:25
6
Is the Affordable Care Act sufficient for healthcare reform?
25:25–32:02
7
What are the Democratic Party's plans for future healthcare policies?
32:02–51:48
8
How can public sentiment influence political outcomes?
51:48–1:11:34
Speakers
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