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And I'm truly thankful that you're here.

And because you're here, because you're a listener, we have now exceeded more than 500 million

downloads to date.

So again, thank you for that.

But now, the news.

You know, there's a lie we tell ourselves in America because it's comforting.

That the system bends, but it doesn't break.

That the guardrails may wobble, but they're still there.

That if something truly dangerous were happening, surely someone would stop it.

The courts, Congress, the media, someone, anyone.

But here's the uncomfortable truth I learned the hard way. Long before prison, long before Trump's

second act as president, systems do not collapse with a bang. They rot quietly, behind redactions,

behind procedure, behind phrases like partial compliance and

unanimous votes that somehow, somehow managed to mean the opposite of what they say.

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