The "Beleaguered" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | So I'm going to take a poll. How many people here feel beleaguered? |
| 0:27.0 | One. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't know if I feel beleaguered. I feel jet-lagged I feel disoriented I I feel |
| 0:37.0 | beleaguered just from one direction but I do I feel besieged yes Beseeged. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, to lay siege too. |
| 0:44.6 | Beset, beset, beleaguered, and besieged. |
| 0:48.2 | All the beburd verbs. |
| 0:49.4 | Can I point out that Trump does not usually use three-syllable words. |
| 0:54.6 | That was a big word in his tweet about the general. |
| 0:57.0 | And three-syllable adjectives to describe his attorney general is particularly rare. |
| 1:05.4 | So I think we should probably invest a lot of meaning in his use of the word |
| 1:09.6 | believe. |
| 1:10.6 | Well, maybe he's growing into the job. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, he's elevated to three cells. |
| 1:14.0 | He's the one doing the believer. |
| 1:16.0 | Just like of all the words you're going to, |
| 1:20.0 | it's not really an insult, it's like, |
| 1:22.0 | it's like, he sat down and thought what can I do to my attorney |
| 1:25.8 | general I know I'll beleagueer him it's kind of it's kind of like you know if like |
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