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When I first saw the headline that Mark Meadows was too stupid to realize he was revealing something incredibly damning in his book and that Trump had had a positive test days before the debate, I had the same sort of instinctive reaction, which is I honestly I can't I can't get back in that water.

Mark Meadows says that Trump was sick when he got that first result.

And then Mark Meadows almost as a joke is like his bronze hue had returned before the debate. Did you think I was in a fucking can that you don't that doesn't cure covid, you fucking assholes.

Mark Meadows disclosed like the biggest cover up of the entire administration. You just put it in his book and then he called his own book fake news during an interview.

Yeah, take your covid to the fucking Gold Star families.

Chris Christie was so sick. He had a priest rubbing oil in the shape of a cross on his forehead.

Are you doing that? They got protection right here.

That really happens. It's in Christie's book.

Chris Christie is getting an oil cross rubbed on his forehead by a priest in Trump called him to say, you're not going to blame me for this. Are you?

everything's just like, here's Elmo. Here's the big blue truck. Here's another version of the big blue truck. Here's a third version of the big blue truck or little blue truck. I think it's a little blue truck. How should I say that every fucking night? How did I forget the name of it? Little blue trucks Halloween. We have the full little blue truck goes to the city. The little blue truck valentine's day is a real winner. Yes. Little blue truck close to the city is a classic.

According to one of the Trump books, Ivanka told someone she was standing by that Mike Pence is a good man and that she thinks this whole insurrection thing is bad.

There's been an effort to rehabilitate damaged and destroyed reputations.

We're not going to rely on self-serving public statements.

I'm reading a book called Descent, which is coming out in a few weeks from our old friend Jackie Calms, who was a reporter who covered the White House.

I think that, for example, you know, my friend Adam's book, Kill Switch, which is about the history of the filibuster, has been a super helpful intellectual weapon in, you know, just batting down some of the nonsense that, you know, pro filibuster politicians try to say to keep it right.

If you walk up there and you read the script of, like, Battlefield Earth or something, I don't think it's a win.

If we're not moving forward like Tocqueville warned in Democracy in America, we're going to be lapsing back into some other autocratic or monarchical aristocratic form of government.

Julia Child was 49 when she published Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Love this book. Woodworking. Not being paid by Crooked Media, but just telling everybody, this is my library copy. Highly recommend.

Wow. Shout out to Woodworking. And I have like 30 pages left, so don't blow it. I'm not done.

the new save america coffee table book where he threatens mark zuckerberg with jail time.

I'm sure will be a wonderful beetroot but like

I'm reading Dead Wake, which is about the sinking of the Lusitania. It's a great book. Fucking awesome.

the first line in RFK's book, American Values is something like, I knew very early that the world was made up of gods and monsters, good and evil.

He's also the author of three books, the most recent being Network of Lies, the epic saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy about the effort to steal the 2020 election.

a reporter at the Guardian got their hands on an early copy of her book that's coming out next week and reported that in it the former First Lady reveals that she is stridently pro-choice once I guess sure.

Let's not lose the forest of the trees here she is releasing a book three weeks before the election in which she takes the opposite position of her husband on one of the most important issues in the election that is fucking bananas.

This is like the crypto, the watches, the shoes, it is a way like the clock is ticking here because if he loses in 30 days no one's buying that fucking book so she got to sell it now.

I won't dive in on the bait on that one. There's a - so yeah. Great, amazing book that I wrote. Everyone should buy it. It's so good.

It did actually win an award from the Washington Independent Review of Books. Oh. Which because it has the word independent in it makes an auditor be like, okay, you legit. That's nice.