Hour 2: Doom Scrolling
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | it's time to doomscroll you don't know could kill the order of bornets |
| 0:05.6 | or he's infected monkeys the only news that matters with the most trusted name in the business |
| 0:11.8 | this is headlines with slim fast on the church of laslo yo yo the news well a lot happened while you. First of all, my brother and a few my cousins got out of prison, which is good because Trump commuted their sentence. So they are done. What's interesting, as I saw that the Fraternal Order of Police who had endorsed Trump, they were not happy about that, but they had to know he was going to do it. I mean, I thought that he said that he was going to do it, right? He's also ended all DEI stuff, all the DEI departments in the White House or government, whatever, have been a shutdown. The DEI workers have been suspended with pay. So I guess if you're a diversity, equity, inclusion, right? Is that what it is? Officer, you get to stay home and get paid today. |
| 0:56.5 | So that's not bad, right? |
| 0:57.7 | I don't think. |
| 0:58.4 | Overnight, the president issued another executive order, |
| 1:01.1 | placing all federal employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles on paid leave. |
| 1:06.1 | But for much of Trump's first day in office, |
| 1:08.1 | focused on his controversial decision to pardon or commute the sentence |
| 1:11.6 | of every person convicted of a crime related to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. |
| 1:16.6 | Two top police organizations, including the powerful fraternal order of police, which endorsed |
| 1:21.6 | Trump condemning the pardons and commutations, writing, quote, |
| 1:24.6 | it devalues the sacrifices made by courageous law enforcement and sends a dangerous message. Hmm. Too bad. You, you. I don't know anything about it. I mean, honestly, you've endorsed him. Like, love Trump or hate him. You wanted it. You know what you're getting. It's not like a surprise. I don't think there was a surprise. No, like, we all knew if he got elected. We all knew it. I knew it. Yeah, and he had talked about it. Right. It's not like he even said like, I don't think I'd do that. |
| 1:28.0 | We're like, was a surprise. No, like we all knew if he got elected, we all knew it. Yeah, and he had talked about it. Right. |
| 1:45.8 | It sounded like he even said like, I don't think I'd do that. |
| 1:48.0 | We're like, we know he'll do that. He said, like, yeah, I'll look into that. You're like, yeah, he'll do that. Of course, he'll do that. And now, there's other things that you didn't know whether he would do, like, will he go after political rivals and things like that? So there was a lot of talk of will |
| 1:44.3 | Biden pardoned those |
| 2:01.9 | people preemptively, which he did on his way out Biden pardoned people in his family. He pardoned |
| 2:06.8 | Liz Cheney and others. And I saw, I heard a quote on the news from Liz Cheney as it was happening |
| 2:12.8 | where she said, you know, I don't know, they stay in here. And a new statement from both her |
| 2:16.9 | and Congressman Benny Thompson, of course, who part of that bipartisan select committee on the January 6th attack receiving those pardons from President Biden on his way out the door. |
| 2:26.0 | And they say in this statement, we have been pardoned today, not for breaking the law, but for upholding it. |
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