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You usually don't.

It makes a funny noise.

But today, please bear with us because it's real hot here and it's going to be hot through Friday.

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Music Friday. And this podcast is not safe for work. Stop the count, stop the fraud, stop the fraud, stop the fraud.

Today we're going to be exploring a tale as old as time.

The authoritarian impulse to thwart democracy by any means necessary whenever the authoritarianes don't get their way. This is the totally true story of an election that turned

into, quote, a street fight for the presidency of the United States, unquote, an election in which

the difference between the sides came down to this, quote,

Democrats wanted to do the right thing, and Republicans wanted to win, unquote. Yeah, they did. This is

an election that began with false claims of victory by the Republicans that led to a riot and 40 days of chaos, the likes of which the country

had never seen before. Among the cast of main and peripheral characters of this event were

Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Matt Schlapp, Matthew Dowd, Rudy Giuliani,

Ted Cruz, Roger Stone, Benjamin Ginsburg,

torture enthusiast and Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California,

Berkeley, John Wu, and of course, Fox News and Conservative Talk Radio.

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