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Episode #1011: A Little Shambolic
First Broadcast: 1/27/25
Repeated: 3/17/25
It's not a great world when someone like David Lynch is dead and someone like Donald Trump is President--again!--but we're all doing the best we can, I guess. Anticipating how needlessly vengeful Trump can be, President Biden issued proactive pardons for his immediate family and various officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the January 6th Committee on his way out the door, which was probably a good idea, even though it most likely won't do anything to lessen the unwarranted outrage various right-wingers have about those people. Not to be outdone, within hours of taking office, Trump dished out some pardons of his own, notably for all 1500+ people who were charged with participating in the storming of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, including several who had brought weapons and assaulted police officers there. Did that overshadow the crypto "meme coin" that Trump released a few days before taking office, or the crypto that his wife Melania released soon afterwards that devalued Trump's coin by over 7 billion dollars, or the trip that Mayor Eric Adams took to Washington DC in the middle of the night so he could attend the inauguration and ditch two Martin Luther King Day events he had already committed to attend, or the "Carmen Sandiego" outfit that Melania Trump wore to the inauguration, or the fact that Donald didn't place his hand on the Bible--or anything else--when he was sworn in, or the long and rambling inaugural address he gave afterwards, or the Nazi salute that Trump supporter Elon Musk gave to a crowd at an inauguration event later that night? Good grief, I had forgotten how exhausting the "firehose" of news and disinformation from Trump's White House was in his first term. I'm not looking forward to four more years of this shit in his second!
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last updated March 16, 2025
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