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Slack.com slash DHQ. You know, on the plus side, we are giving historians and anthropologists

of the future a lot to do. They're going to have a very interesting time of it as they

discuss and debate the question of when exactly did the once great American civilization

of those ancient times go insane? And why did it happen? And how? And I can only imagine

thousand years from now, 500 years from now, what conclusions they'll draw about that?

As an American citizen myself in the present day, actually bearing witness to the collapse

of sanity and reason in real time just as we all are, I'm not sure that I can answer

those questions. And I'm watching it happen. But perhaps hindsight will lend a little bit

of clarity for them. What I do know is that this case we've been talking about this week,

the case of James Younger, I think we'll be viewed as a in the future as a seminal moment

in our collective plunge into madness. It may be seen as, at least from a legal standpoint,

the point of no return, the crossing of some sort of Rubicon. Now, I want to talk a little

more about this case today because because if the mass media isn't going to cover it,

which they aren't, then that's all the more reason for me to continue to talk about it.

In fact, in fact, today I want to talk about both of the of the stories that the mass media

has been ignoring this week. And I've covered both of them already, but I want to continue

those conversations. But first, just to review, as we talk about this, James Younger case,

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