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The Talk Show With John Gruber

306: ‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, “The Collected Angers”.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you know what in the most delicious little details of this is that Wikipedia now has to do a redirect because they previously had an article Trump impeachment?

0:10.2

Yeah, no, they have to.

0:13.0

What's the same thing you ask?

0:14.7

Which impeachment did you mean?

0:18.1

Did you see the dojo tweet?

0:22.9

I don't think so.

0:23.9

I just tweeted this out. A friend of mine found it. It's a done Trump junior tweet from 2016.

0:35.6

Dear Clintons, you know what's deplorable being impeached.

0:40.1

As tag basket of horrible.

0:42.2

That age. Oh, man.

0:44.1

But yeah, amidst all of this news, did you see the story today?

0:47.6

I want to start with some light fair.

0:49.6

Do you see the story today about Jared and Ivanka's secret service detail not being allowed to use the restrooms in their home?

0:58.2

Yeah, so there's a story in the Washington Post.

1:01.4

I will put this in the show notes. I promise.

1:03.4

But the basic just is they have a very large home in a very nice neighborhood in Washington.

1:08.3

And they've forbidden.

1:10.0

They've forbade the secret service from using their restrooms and the secret service.

1:15.1

Therefore, rent at a basement studio apartment, somewhere on their block, just to have access to the toilet.

1:21.7

And it costs $3,000 a month. So over $100,000 since 2017.

1:27.2

You know what I hate about that?

1:30.4

What I hate about that is that it almost humanizes them.

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