Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari and Kmele talk Winter Olympics, Trump's racist tweet, DHS negotiations and more.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On todays episode of Suspension of the Rules, Isaac, Ari and Kmele talk about the Winter Olympics, Kmele's defense of President Donald Trump's racist social media post, the DHS negotiations and more. Last but not least, a very good grievance section. It's a good one!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, we talk Olympics, Camille's defense of Donald Trump's racist tweet, the DHS negotiations, special elections, and a very, and welcome to the Suspension of the Rules podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | Gentlemen, it is the most patriotic time of the year, or of every, like, I guess, half decade, |
| 0:34.6 | when we get to be reminded that we are the biggest, strongest, most physically imposing country on planet Earth. |
| 0:41.8 | The Olympics are clear. |
| 0:42.9 | Behind only Norway. |
| 0:44.1 | No. |
| 0:45.1 | We can't touch us in metal counts. |
| 0:47.4 | Don't start with this blasphemous stuff at the top. |
| 0:50.2 | Looked at the metal counts? |
| 0:51.4 | I'm just saying. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's check in at the end. I guess it's Winter Olympics, so maybe I don't even know. I'm like perfectly American about this where I'm just... It's so true....in ignorant to who actually wins. We're fucking winning. Obviously, we're the fourth. No, we're in top. No, we must be the best. I do really truly love the Olympics. |
| 1:12.9 | We haven't had a podcast since the Olympics started or since the Super Bowl happened. |
| 1:19.2 | So there's some sports stuff here. |
| 1:21.7 | I think maybe worth covering. |
| 1:23.0 | The Olympics feels tied a little bit in what we do because it's, you know, it's international. |
| 1:27.4 | It's American, it's |
| 1:27.5 | American, there's a whole sort of like political undertones. Most of what I, most of my, I guess I |
| 1:36.0 | should say, experience of the Olympics so far has just been waking up at 5.30 a.m. to watch |
| 1:43.6 | Lindsay Vaughn ski with a torn ACL. |
| 1:46.4 | Oh, boy. |
| 1:47.1 | Which ended in horrific fashion. And, yeah, not cool. That was a really, really terrible way to start a day. |
| 1:56.1 | And then other than that, I've just been watching a lot of figure skating, which I was telling you guys off the air. |
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