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221: No Such Thing As Honor Anymore

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Barb McQuade hosts #SistersInLaw to explore the legality and ramifications of Trump’s firings of J6 prosecutors and over a dozen inspectors general.  Then, the #Sisters discuss the confirmation hearings of prospective cabinet members Kash Patel, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard by sharing their concerns and doing a deep dive into the nominees' backgrounds, views, and performances.  They also dissect Trump’s latest Executive Orders through the lens of the unitary executive theory and the separation of powers doctrine before explaining the risks of his questionable offer to buy out government workers.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Jill Wine, Banks, and me, Barb McQuaid.

0:15.8

Kim and Joyce are both away this week, and we already miss them.

0:20.2

Check out our brand new shirts that celebrate

0:22.1

the resistance. Go to politicon.com slash merch to find those shirts designed by Kim focusing on

0:30.7

the resistance with cis at the heart of the resistance. Go to politicon.com slash merch. Now we'll get on with the show where

0:39.2

we'll discuss government firings, this week's confirmation hearings, and some of Donald Trump's

0:45.1

new executive orders and other orders that are causing chaos in our federal government.

0:51.2

But first, Jill, I wanted to chat with you. You know, it's just the two of us today.

0:55.0

I know. It's really weird. Kim's away and Joyce is away. So it's just a, they haven't like moved to

1:01.1

Canada and forgotten to tell us it's time to go, have they? They have not. They are just going to be

1:06.1

back next week. And I know we'll miss them this week. I hope our listeners will put up with just you and me.

1:12.1

Yeah. Well, we talked about trying to impersonate them and changing our voices to try to

1:17.0

sound like that. I bet we could do it if we tried. I think we should hire somebody like

1:22.8

Colbert or Fallon to do it or Kimmel. That's who we need. Voice actors.

1:27.7

Okay.

1:28.0

Well, listeners, if you can impersonate the voices of either Joyce or Kim, let us know.

1:33.5

And maybe we'll hire you to be the understudies.

1:36.5

But before we get started, Jill, I've been thinking about something.

1:40.5

You, I'm sure, have read by now that president trump has renamed the gulf of mexico the

1:47.3

gulf of america and uh mount donali mount mckinley and it makes me wonder what other

1:54.9

american icons or um landmarks ought to have new names.

2:02.8

Anything you would rename if you were the president and had that power?

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