Today, on Meet the Press, what was disturbing, though not surprising, was another display of the collective Republican embrace of Donald Trump, sexual deviant and purveyor of insurrection though he may be. This time it starred Byron Donalds (R-Florida) whose knowledge of congressional history and European abortion laws are about as impressive as Doc Rivers’ record in Game 7s. What was wonderful, though, and very much surprising, was Host Chuck Todd bringing his big bag of fucks to the proceedings and emptying it on the table.
(Representative Donalds, who was elected in 2020 (and this is important to today’s proceedings) was sworn in on January 3rd, 2021 — three days before that most beautiful of days.)
I’ll explain in a moment.
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