a cnn political commentator joining us right now. jonah, what s your take on all of this? you ever see the movie tin cup where at the end he swings 19 times to win the tournament when he can t win it after the second swing. it feels a little like that. i do think there s a little bit of an inflationary import of this. kevin mccarthy is not zelenskyy or churchill or anybody. part of what makes this such a spectacle is it s about the smallness of kevin mccarthy, and the people who oppose him one of the things as a conservative that frustrates me with coverage on all the networks is everyone keeps referring to the freedom caucus who support him as conservatives. they re nihilists. most of these guys are performative people. matt gaetz is an illiterate.
smallness which is antithetical to what he wants and how he perceives himself. yeah. in 2015, he announced much closer to the actual nominating contests. but when he came down into the atrium of troum tower on that fabled escalator ride to hell, he immediately left and got on trump force one as he was calling his plane, went to iowa. the following day he went to new hampshire. shortly after that he went down to the border with rudy giuliani. it was a very quick, very rapid him just going directly onto the campaign trail and not really stopping until he won the election. this time he invited people to his living room and he hasn t left since. the campaign is very obviously self-conscious because the candidate is self-conscious about this. they re doing their best to proclaim he s extraordinarily busy. they sent a list of 11 events he
remarkable person with such an extraordinary career. i mean, i think about the career you ve had and this year, i mean, the spoken word album which i ve listened to and gone back and listened to your other spoken word albums which is so impressive. and going into space. i was really fascinated when you got back and when you came down, a lot of people talk about, you know, oh, seeing the curvature of the earth and the smallness. you talked about kind of the blackness of space and is that what death is like. i found it really profound and moving to hear you speak about it. well, i was looking back as earth disappeared, and then i looked up and saw that blackness and thought that s death, and that s life. and then i was overwhelmed by a sadness for what we re doing to mother earth. so one of the resolutions or
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