Do Freshmen Congressmen get shoved in lockers?

In this Chosen People Problems edition of “people we thought were Jewish,” we welcome CNN contributor and former Congressman Peter Meijer of Michigan to ask him: how screwed are we? We discuss the midterm elections, being one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, his service in the US Army, and why he still supports the Jews - or at least until the latest polls come out. 

As a reminder, you can also watch this episode on Youtube - and Peter's facial expressions are not to be missed when we ask him about his congressional colleagues.

Before we welcome Congressman Meijer we catch up for a few minutes about the worst thing about elections - they may be making us fat.

And Happy Veterans Day! We all really appreciate your service. 

Also:

• Wait, Peter Meijer isn’t Jewish?

• Is Congress fun? Is it more like the West Wing or Veep?

• Getting antisemitic hate mail as a gentile

• Peter said something nice about Haley Stevens…RIP his inbox.

• Does JD Vance have fat kid energy ?

• Luigi Mangione was also a hurt person 

• If somebody wishes me to die, I probably won’t vote for them.

• “Everyone is out to get you” is easier than recognizing that the world is chaotic

• Epstein and QAnon are the same - but only one of them is welcome on national television 

• Log off, touch grass

• Trump likes to talk about Peter at rallies 

• Who talked Donald Trump into bombing iran? Donald Trump did. 

• Stopping aid to Israel should solve everything 

• What’s harder, CNN or Congress?
  

Learn more about Peter Meijer.
https://x.com/PeterMeijer

https://www.congress.gov/member/peter-meijer/M001186

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