It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore.

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Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

And Senator, I hate it when we have to admit

so often that we were just absolutely right in predicting something. And sure enough, now the

White House is hunkered down going through long lists of pardons and letting the American people

know you should expect more pardons before we leave office.

Well, this week we were struck with the stunning news that the White House has announced.

Verdict with Ted Cruz Wednesday Pod was exactly entirely 100% accurate.

That every word we said, and by the way, if you didn't listen to Wednesday's pod, you should listen to Wednesday's

pod because we predicted. We said that the left-wing media and Democrats were pressing Joe Biden

to issue a ton more pardons to pardon the rest of his family, to pardon members of his administration,

and now, and we said, look, that's the direction they're going, and seemingly in response to our

podcast, the White House immediately came out and said, expect more pardons, and we're seeing a list

of people now that they are contemplating pardoning. In addition, we had a major Supreme Court

case argued this week, a challenge to Tennessee's

law that prohibits sex transition treatments for children.

And the ACLU has challenged this arguing that it violates the Constitution, that the Constitution

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