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Aloha namaste and welcome to Impolitic John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint,

where we find ourselves at the end of a week that even by the hallucinatory standards of the Trump 2.0 era

produced a capulcate of head scratching, neck snapping, brain fogging headlines that would

make for a hell of a bleak, surrealist comedy if it weren't for

the stratospheric stakes of the events unleashed upon the world by the increasingly erratic, self-evidently

addled, and all too often just plain embarrassing president of the United States. Under normal

circumstances, we would probably have devoted a part or all of the show today

to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearings of

Mark Wayne Mullen.

Trump's pick to succeed Christy Knoem as DHS Secretary and the only person I've ever heard

of with two first names smashed into one and no middle name at all, during which

the committee chair ran Paul rhetorically eviscerated the nominee for having publicly said

that he completely understood the multiple rib-fracturing assault on Paul by one of his neighbors

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