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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome Tim Politic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint featuring lively, in-depth and sometimes ever so slightly profane conversations with people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America, weeping the warp and weft of our politics and culture.

Just when you thought that Donald Trump might be finished using his nominations to run the federal government in his second term

as a way of extending a short, stubby, undercooked sausage-like middle finger in the direction of Democrats,

old-school Republicans, the Beltway establishment, the mainstream media,

and the very notions of qualifications, traditions, ethics, long-cherished norms, time-honored mores,

past precedents,

future generations, and plain old common sense. The once-in future president turns around and drops his intention to install Kashup Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation. Patel, a former public defender in Miami-Dade County, Department of Justice

trial attorney, senior aide to House Intel Committee chair, Devin Nunes, served Trump in a

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