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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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OA1122 - We’re not even three weeks into the second Trump administration and already well into our first Constitutional crisis. How was the world’s richest man given access to the nation’s checkbook and the total authority to shut down a $40 billion federal agency with 10,000 employees--and can he be stopped? After a quick review of some recent good news, we try to understand how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally reshaping the federal government before closing out the news sandwich with a big L for the Proud Boys.

D.C. District Court judge Royce Lambert’s order in Doe v. McHenry protecting trans prisoners (2/4/25)
Trump’s executive order establishing the Department of Governmental Efficiency (1/20/25)
“The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before--in Hungary,” Zach Beauchamp Vox (2/5/25)
“U.S. Agency for International Development: An Overview,” Congressional Research Service (1/6/25)

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0:00.0	You must never ever give up or give in.
0:03.1	You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.5	That is your calling.
0:08.9	That is your mission.
0:10.0	That is your moral obligation.
0:12.0	That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it.
0:15.0	Get in the way.
0:26.6	Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:44.1	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry,
0:47.9	no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.0	The fight for our country is always worth it.
1:02.1	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1122. 112.
1:08.2	Cool. I'm Thomas. That over there is real-life attorney somehow trying to keep up with all this. Matt Cameron, how are you doing?
1:11.7	Coming to you live from a hurricane of news. We're doing it. Making it happen. Oh, I'm feeling great because this is actually my one-year anniversary on opening arguments.
1:16.2	Oh, wow. Which means it's the one-year anniversary of you taking back the show, I'm pretty sure.
1:20.0	Yeah. I don't know how that happened. Holy shit. In the wake of the news, I've completely forgotten. But no, that's awesome. That's amazing. Wow. I can't believe how time has
1:27.7	flown. Well, thanks for being here this last year, Matt. Really appreciate it. I've had a great time,
1:32.1	and I really appreciate everybody listening. Didn't think we'd be diving into the coup that we're
1:36.1	talking about here when I started last year. But, you know, wasn't what we envisioned, I'll say, wasn't what we drew up. But let's talk about it. We got a lot to get through.
1:45.7	We got, you know, on Fridays, I think I'm just going to start giving you a news sandwich.
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