Inside a Fat Camp named Shame
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s allies are weaponizing the machinery of government against opponents, eroding faith in American institutions. But does every abuse demand the “dictatorship” label? Mike weighs in on the rhetoric of tyranny, then turns to Camp Shame, a new podcast by Kelsey Snelling about the notorious weight loss retreat Camp Shane, its false promises, and its lasting scars.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.5 | It's the gist. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.8 | John Bolton rated, Fed Governor Lisa Cook bounced, a slice of intel given to the government. |
| 0:16.1 | Just enough for the Don to wet his beak. |
| 0:18.4 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.2 | Well, I'll tell you what's going on. Donald Trump is doing |
| 0:22.5 | what he and his appointees promised, using the levers of the state to go after their opponents. |
| 0:28.5 | And the problem with that, we're told, is that this is how autocrats operate. And that's true. |
| 0:35.6 | Burgeoning, autocracy, not an unfair label. But we've also been told that |
| 0:40.6 | this is the path to dictatorship. Also possibly true. But even if it's not the path to dictatorship, |
| 0:47.5 | even if a full-blown dictatorship doesn't happen, even if it stops at whoever Trump considers his enemies right now, and why |
| 0:57.1 | would it, by the way, if no one stops it? |
| 0:59.9 | It's still bad. |
| 1:01.4 | It still erodes the rule of law. |
| 1:03.7 | It still cheapens the system and cheapens belief in the legitimacy of governmental powers. |
| 1:09.3 | And of course this is going to happen, because these |
| 1:11.9 | very much seem to be illegitimate exercises. They ipso facto degrade the American legal and governing |
| 1:20.3 | systems. John Favreau from Ponce of America tackled this, but he started it off by framing it as |
| 1:27.4 | Democrats often do. This is a dictatorship. |
| 1:31.2 | So I agree that one troubling sign of these abuses is that it could lead to dictatorship. This is |
| 1:36.6 | why we have to stop it. I don't discount any of that. Oh no, it could never happen. Of course it |
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