SIO189: Impeach the Motherf*cker
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode was delayed due to a new baby in the Smith house! However, it worked out great, since the redacted Mueller report was released on Thursday. Of course, check out Opening Arguments for some in-depth legal analysis, but I've been brewing a ton of thoughts about the report and what Democrats should do in response. I talk about what an insult Barr is to the position of AG, why we don't need to listen to Republicans anymore, and why we should impeach Trump. I think a lot of the arguments against impeachment are worth considering, but ultimately I argue they are based on outdated political conceptions and misused analogy.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm your host Thomas Smith and Serious In Queeries Only, this is episode 189. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:34.5 | And, wow, late episode, as you maybe have noticed, |
| 0:38.6 | you might also know that my wife and I |
| 0:41.0 | had a baby boy on Monday in the early AM, and so I'm exhausted. |
| 0:47.2 | It really is a lot harder having two. |
| 0:49.6 | That's all true, and I'm sure there's only more of that to come. |
| 0:53.4 | But we're absolutely ecstatic. |
| 0:55.6 | We're so lucky, healthy baby, that's the most important thing. |
| 0:59.9 | And we are so lucky that everything went about as well as it could go. |
| 1:04.7 | So that's all great. |
| 1:05.4 | Thanks everybody for the nice messages and comments and all that. |
| 1:08.5 | But you know, so I was a little delayed because of that and of course it actually turned out okay because the Mueller report came out and I would have already come up with an episode and then had the Mueller report come out. |
| 1:20.0 | Now of course a lot of this stuff I leave over to opening arguments you know because |
| 1:24.5 | Andrew's more of an expert on everything legal and and even probably most stuff |
| 1:28.9 | political but you know this is one of those times where I have a lot. I have a lot of thoughts and I want to come at it. |
| 1:36.1 | Actually kind of using some of the expertise that Andrew delivered to us over on opening arguments. |
| 1:43.1 | Go check that out if you haven't. |
| 1:44.7 | There's still so much more to come on that. |
| 1:46.2 | Of course, we did like a 90 minute episode, |
| 1:48.9 | but it was within hours, and there's so much more to read, |
| 1:51.9 | so much more to digest, all that stuff. |
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