The New Abnormal

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04.13.2021

Trump’s tweet about Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a face-lift” originated from a conversation between her and the former first couple in their bedroom. Really. In this episode of The New Abnormal, the Morning Joe co-host gives her hilarious retelling ...

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04.13.2021 What Mika Brzezinski Did When She Read Trump’s ‘Bleeding Facelift’ Tweet Trump’s tweet about Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a face-lift” originated from a conversation between her and the former first couple in their bedroom. Really. In this episode of The New Abnormal, the Morning Joe co-host gives her hilarious retelling ...
04.12.2021 TEASER: Rep. Grace Meng: How I’m Able to Work with GOP Racists Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY)’s tearful rebuke against Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) during a House hearing on violence and discrimination against Asian Americans was semi-unplanned. She had a speech ready to go, but when Roy went on an anti-China and lynchings ...
04.09.2021 Why Matt Gaetz Was Left Twisting in the Wind Every day, sometimes multiple times a day, come eye-popping new details in the Matt Gaetz scandal. But perhaps the worst thing of all for the Florida Republican, who is accused of underage sex trafficking, may be that Donald Trump thinks ...
04.06.2021 Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden That new documentary on QAnon ended with something of a bang, with one likely suspect seeming to half-confess that he was ‘Q,’ the oracle of the violent conspiracy movement. But there may not be even a single ‘Q,’ explains Will ...
04.05.2021 UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken Democrats are in control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for the first time in a decade. But to the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, it’s clear that the party’s brand is broken ...
04.02.2021 Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself The New Abnormal’s least favorite Florida congressman, Matt Gaetz, is in hot water over mounting allegations that he’s been involved with underage women and taking them across state lines. To discuss the burgeoning scandal, co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Jesse Cannon ...
03.31.2021 FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free Did you know that everyone’s favorite Suez-Canal-blocking ship is now the subject of a QAnon conspiracy? The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer lay out why the adrenochrome set is convinced that the stuck ship’s cargo is full of ...
03.30.2021 The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law Goldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows first-hand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law. “What [Gov.] Brian Kemp will tell you, what other state ...
03.29.2021 FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie Take one self-proclaimed satanism expert. Add in a pinch of dumpster-diving. Throw in a chicken-coop fire, and (of course) pillow magnate and Donald Trump pal Mike Lindell. And you’ve got the recipe that Trump 2020 deadenders are currently leading in ...
03.28.2021 TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop GOP Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn led a tour for themselves and others in their party at the border on Friday, but according to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who took over Beto O’Rourke’s former 16th district in Texas, it’s all ...
03.26.2021 Rep. Adam Kinzinger: ‘All We Do Is Call the Other Side Douchebags’ What’s our wildly divisive political climate doing to today’s 20-year-olds, who will be our political leaders of the future? That’s what Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) asks co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Jesse Cannon on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. ...
03.23.2021 Getting a Presidential Pet Is a Great Distraction From Scandal When we think of presidential pets, we think of their cute moments and endless photo-ops on the White House lawn—but the reality is you sometimes need to acquire a pet to distract from a scandal. So it was in the ...
03.22.2021 TEASER: Trump Isn’t the Only Person Whose COVID Response Cost Lives Since the spread of COVID-19 launched a global pandemic in 2020, over half a million Americans have been killed by the virus. And experts agree that the death and infection rates have been much worse in the West—mainly the United ...
03.19.2021 How Trump Turned Asians Into a Target It didn’t have to be this way. The coronavirus pandemic didn’t have to become politicized—or racialized. But last March, President Donald Trump “decided to call coronavirus, which has no ethnicity or zip code or nationality, the China virus,” says Daily ...
03.16.2021 WTF Is Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema? It’s bad enough Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat, turned down the minimum wage hike with that oh-so-cute thumbs down. Now she’s threatening to derail the whole Democratic agenda, insisting on archaic Senate rules that give Mitch McConnell and the ...
03.15.2021 TEASER: Jelani Cobb: Jan. 6 Was the Beginning of GOP’s Mess, Not Ending It’s not hard to see that the Republican party was the Party of Trump during the four years he was president. But what kind of party are they now? Honestly, it’s hard to tell. “When you looked at the platform ...
03.12.2021 Damn Right Republicans Are Scared of the Voting Rights Bills Republicans are terrified—with good reason. Utah Sen. Mike Lee went viral this week when he sputtered earlier that one of the new voting rights bills making its way through the House was “written in hell by the devil himself.” And ...
03.09.2021 Florida’s Top Dem: Ron DeSantis Hid His COVID While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have been the runner-up to former President Donald Trump in the recent CPAC straw poll, his chances of ever becoming president himself are not good, according to Florida’s top Democrat. “You know, he went ...
03.08.2021 TEASER: Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley: I Won’t Take Bullying from NYPD It’s safe to say that the people of New York City are ready for a new mayor, and certainly one who isn’t Bill deBlasio. Sure, he gave the city universal pre-K but had some faux paus over the years, most ...
03.05.2021 Biden Was Asked to Refinance His House After Iowa Fail This is just how dire things got for the Biden campaign in early 2020. Plus, just how much damage Trump did by hiding his COVID vaccine, and Colorado’s voting model. How did Joe Biden manage to eke out a presidential ...
03.02.2021 ‘They Might as Well Have Torn Up the Constitution’ For years, a central goal of the conservative movement was to install right-wing judges. A Republican president delivered, big time. And these Trumpists are still pissed. Which tells you one thing. For the authoritarian wing of the Republican party, this ...
02.28.2021 TEASER: Getting ‘Canceled’ Is the Only Thing Conservatives Have Left The theme this year, stupidly enough, is ‘America Uncanceled.’ But the only real way to get any kinda cred at the 2021 Conversative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, to make a stink about how you’ve totally been canceled. One easy ...
02.26.2021 Mary Trump: Here’s How We Send Donald to Jail The Manhattan District Attorney’s office finally got its hands on Donald Trump’s taxes and it’s only a matter of time before it becomes clear why he spent so much time trying to keep them hidden away. In this episode of ...
02.24.2021 Blaire Erskine Exposes MAGA Insanit‪y‬ Atlanta-based comedian Blaire Erskine has blown up on Twitter over the past year with videos that not only roast Trump-loving conservatives but have also managed to fool a large number of prominent liberals. With characters like Tiffany Trump’s best friend, ...
02.23.2021 Orange Is the New Orange: Trump Just Might Go to Jail For years, he’s gotten away with it. He lied. He cheated. He treated the government like a get-rich-quick-scheme and his most ardent followers like marks. But now, Donald Trump could be facing serious criminal charges. The kind of charges that ...
02.22.2021 TRAILER: Dem Impeachment Manager: Here’s Why We Didn’t Call Witnesses During Trump’s Trial We know how the story went: Trump was impeached for a second time. There is a trial. He is found not guilty because there not enough votes needed to make it happen, despite the majority of the Senate voting against ...
02.19.2021 The Vaccines Are More Effective Than You Think Andy Slavitt was shocked when he joined the Biden administration. “I was under the impression coming in—as many, many Americans were—that there were big stockpiles of vaccines waiting to go out the door that were produced over the course of ...
02.16.2021 Mitch McConnell Proved He’s Even More Craven Than Ted Cruz That impeachment vote in the Senate was tough to swallow, with 43 Republicans voting to acquit Trump for the insurrection done in his name, by people waving his flag. Even more gag-worthy was Sen. Mitch McConnell’s speech afterwards—blaming Trump for ...
02.15.2021 TEASER: The Marine and The Doctor Taking On Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert weren’t elected to their positions in the House of Representatives by accident. They ran campaigns like everyone else, and won. Given Greene’s “nutty” aka QAnon-supporting and anti-mask-censorship antics in particular since she arrived in ...
02.12.2021 There Is a Way to Take Down Fox News (And It’s Not a Boycott) Amidst hundreds of thousands of Americans dying from COVID-19, countless pleas from health officials and the CDC to wear maks and social distance, and a recent report from Lancet that put the cherry on top of the “this was basically ...
02.09.2021 The Worst People on Facebook Now Want to Ruin Real Life For years, Facebook has been a cesspool of conspiracy theorists, political ragemonsters, and quacks pushing cures for decaying Boomers. But as dangerous as these creeps were, they were mostly contained to the social network. Until the pandemic hit. Now, all ...
02.08.2021 TEASER: Democrats Don’t Care About Debt. And That’s OK. The pandemic shook things up, a lot. It exposed the country’s deepest inequalities, and arguably, made them worse. Now, all eyes are on President Biden to see how he’ll fix it, and Republicans are responding exactly as expected: by crying ...
02.05.2021 The Hamster Wheel of Trumpism Will Turn Greene Into a Hero So how are House Republicans dealing with the fallout from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s freshly resurfaced 9/11 trutherism, school shooting denialism, and threats on fellow lawmakers’ lives? They’re giving her a standing ovation. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is House minority leader,” ...
02.02.2021 Will Biden’s Team Find All of the Vaxx—Before It’s Too Late? In recent days, top members of the Biden administration have a startling admission: That millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were lost somewhere in the system. So now, the race is on to track down all of the vials. ...
02.01.2021 TEASER: Republicans Aren’t All Dumb. They’re Just Part of Cult. Lots of us have been asking ourselves (and Twitter) many questions over the last year. Questions like: How did about 74 million people vote for Trump, again? Why do people actually believe in QAnon? And, more recently, if Republicans can ...
01.29.2021 Trump Sent a Mob to His Office. Now He’s Kissing Don’s Ass. He’s supposed to be a leader—the leader, in fact, of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. But he ain’t doing much leading. As The Daily Beast reported, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) went in a matter of weeks from angrily ...
01.26.2021 Josh Hawley, Could You Stop Your Whining for Five Seconds? Authoritarians like Sen. Josh Hawley don’t have much to defend these days. Their little insurrection failed, their Dear Leader is gone, and his stewardship helped kill more Americans than World War II. But they’ve still got the politics of aggrievement. ...
01.22.2021 Did Trump and Biden Swap Bodies??? If you don’t understand the title of this episode, which suggests some Freaky Friday voodoo between President Biden and ex-President Donald Trump, congratulations, you have logic. Unfortunately, there are many people who don’t, like the QAnon believers who are still ...
01.20.2021 TEASER: Mitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Admin It is said that before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, a group of Republicans got together and vowed to oppose everything that he would do, or rather, try to do. Did the Trump loyalists on the hill and Mitch McConnell’s ...
01.20.2021 Preview: Sarah Cooper Calls Trump a ‘Petty Bitch’ In this preview of ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast’s new episode with Sarah Cooper, the comedian shares her parting message for the president she has spent the past year making fun of on TikTok. Subscribe to ‘The Last Laugh’ now to ...
01.19.2021 How to Kill MAGA Nation’s Brain Worms How will we bring the Trump supporters who live in an alternate reality back to the real world? A recent Pew poll asked who respondents thought was to blame for the Capitol riot—and an “astounding” number said President Donald Trump ...
01.18.2021 TEASER: Trump’s Legacy Is Going to Get Worse (Just Wait) Donald Trump is not the only “bad” president this country has had in office, but from one historian's perspective, he’s certainly one of the worst. “This country has had a few [bad presidents]. There are the ones who are simply ...
01.15.2021 MAGA Riot’s Chilling Reality: Regular Folks, Ready to Kill One of the most frightening aspects of the assault on the U.S. Capitol was how, well, normal some of the participants seemed—and how openly they spoke of their willingness to murder other Americans if President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory was ...
01.12.2021 Too Many Dead Capitol Cops for Josh Hawley to Pretend He’s Innocent Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) just can’t understand why everyone wants him to resign. He put out a brave tweet calling for the “violence” to end after a mob he helped incite laid siege to the Capitol, and his “woke” publisher ...
01.08.2021 Michael Cohen: I Am Certain That Donald Trump Is Psychotic Right Now Donald Trump is in deep shit. So deep, that he finally admitted to leaving the White House at the end of the month. And his supporters? Well, some would say Wedesnday’s riot in D.C., when his supporters-turned-domestic-terrorists defaced the Capitol, ...
01.07.2021 TEASER: The Orange Lives Matter Coup Won’t End This Trumpist Chaos After inciting a mob of his drooling followers to sack the Capitol, President Donald Trump proved he’s too dangerous to hold office, even if it’s just for another two weeks. But don’t count on his cabinet to do the right ...
01.05.2021 Trump Just F*cked Himself and His Party in Georgia Things were already sub-ideal for the president and his Republican party in the Peach State. The GOP’s incumbent senators, who in any normal year would be locks for re-election, both have a habit of shady stock trades. The early vote ...
01.04.2021 TEASER: NARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade Trump did a lot to roll back women’s healthcare—from enacting a global gag rule, which prevents non-American health organizations from receiving monetary aid from the U.S., to stacking the courts with anti-choice judges all the way to the Supreme Court ...
01.03.2021 NARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade Trump did a lot to roll back women’s healthcare—from enacting a global gag rule, which prevents non-American health organizations from receiving monetary aid from the U.S., to stacking the courts with anti-choice judges all the way to the Supreme Court ...
12.29.2020 The Most Acid Trippy Episodes of The New Abnormal Trump getting COVID. Antifa plotting to take down the White House. The truth about Russia disinfo. Bill Clinton impressions. The Lincoln Project scoops. The very first year of The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast has been a wild, trippy ...

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The New Abnormal episodes:

What Mika Brzezinski Did When She Read Trump’s ‘Bleeding Facelift’ Tweet

TEASER: Rep. Grace Meng: How I’m Able to Work with GOP Racists

Why Matt Gaetz Was Left Twisting in the Wind

Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden

UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken

Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself

FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free

The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law

FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie

TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop

Rep. Adam Kinzinger: ‘All We Do Is Call the Other Side Douchebags’

Getting a Presidential Pet Is a Great Distraction From Scandal

TEASER: Trump Isn’t the Only Person Whose COVID Response Cost Lives

How Trump Turned Asians Into a Target

WTF Is Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?

TEASER: Jelani Cobb: Jan. 6 Was the Beginning of GOP’s Mess, Not Ending

Damn Right Republicans Are Scared of the Voting Rights Bills

Florida’s Top Dem: Ron DeSantis Hid His COVID

TEASER: Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley: I Won’t Take Bullying from NYPD

Biden Was Asked to Refinance His House After Iowa Fail

‘They Might as Well Have Torn Up the Constitution’

TEASER: Getting ‘Canceled’ Is the Only Thing Conservatives Have Left

Mary Trump: Here’s How We Send Donald to Jail

Blaire Erskine Exposes MAGA Insanit‪y‬

Orange Is the New Orange: Trump Just Might Go to Jail

TRAILER: Dem Impeachment Manager: Here’s Why We Didn’t Call Witnesses During Trump’s Trial

The Vaccines Are More Effective Than You Think

Mitch McConnell Proved He’s Even More Craven Than Ted Cruz

TEASER: The Marine and The Doctor Taking On Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert

There Is a Way to Take Down Fox News (And It’s Not a Boycott)

The Worst People on Facebook Now Want to Ruin Real Life

TEASER: Democrats Don’t Care About Debt. And That’s OK.

The Hamster Wheel of Trumpism Will Turn Greene Into a Hero

Will Biden’s Team Find All of the Vaxx—Before It’s Too Late?

TEASER: Republicans Aren’t All Dumb. They’re Just Part of Cult.

Trump Sent a Mob to His Office. Now He’s Kissing Don’s Ass.

Josh Hawley, Could You Stop Your Whining for Five Seconds?

Did Trump and Biden Swap Bodies???

TEASER: Mitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Admin

Preview: Sarah Cooper Calls Trump a ‘Petty Bitch’

How to Kill MAGA Nation’s Brain Worms

TEASER: Trump’s Legacy Is Going to Get Worse (Just Wait)

MAGA Riot’s Chilling Reality: Regular Folks, Ready to Kill

Too Many Dead Capitol Cops for Josh Hawley to Pretend He’s Innocent

Michael Cohen: I Am Certain That Donald Trump Is Psychotic Right Now

TEASER: The Orange Lives Matter Coup Won’t End This Trumpist Chaos

Trump Just F*cked Himself and His Party in Georgia

TEASER: NARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade

NARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade

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