Project 2025 Is Terrifying

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1009

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has been making headlines with its promises to set the next Republican president up with a full staff of loyal civil servants and a 920-page executive branch playbook--but what is actually in this thing, and what can we learn from it? Matt takes us through some disturbing echoes of 1933 Germany, which was a famously chill and cool time, showing us how the legal system has historically been used to turn democracies into autocracies. We learn that laws with the most boring names are often the scariest, and about the administrative violence of a well-timed memo.

1. Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership (2023)

2. Presidential Personnel Database (Project 2025 job application)

3. Nazi Telegram with instructions for Kristallnacht (Nov 10, 1938)

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0:00.0	I'm sorry which of us went to law school We don't have to work with any lawyer we don't want and that means you're fired.
0:22.8	Why is it only the witnesses must swear to tell the whole truth?
0:30.6	Why isn't the same oath administered to the attorneys?
0:34.0	And there he is, he's nothing.
0:37.0	It's the Emperor without clothes.
0:39.0	Welcome to opening Arguments.
0:43.0	The podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court.
0:46.0	Don't take ethics advice from Alan Dershowitz.
0:49.0	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode
0:54.5	one thousand and nine I'm yours Thomas Smith and over there is your other host
0:58.3	Matt Cameron how you doing Matt Thomas I'm feeling unusually positive even
1:02.0	even for everything we're going to be talking about I'm in a good mood how is that possible
1:06.6	That's just how I am I'm just built this on take us on that ride Matt
1:10.8	Matt Cameron is of course, a real lawyer.
1:13.2	I'm a practicing immigration and criminal defense attorney,
1:15.5	and I'm here to talk about the future of the United States.
1:18.4	This is very worrisome.
1:19.4	I know there's like a document, people are talking outright, outright just like we're done with
1:23.6	democracy they're not even hiding it anymore I'm really worried Matt so I'm
1:27.7	very excited to learn more and find out how worried I should be and what we can do
1:32.2	about it.
1:32.6	Yeah, I want to keep it realistic.
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