Hello, hello, and welcome to opening arguments, vapid response.

This is number four, if you can believe it.

Wow.

It is the fourth time we have assembled here.

I'm Thomas, your host. That is Matt Cameron,

real life immigration attorney. How are you doing, Matt? Hey, guys. Sadly, we have to talk about

my hometown paper today. Ask the Globe. Not the best day for the globe, but I'm doing okay.

I bet my hometown paper doesn't exist anymore. I'm sure it already was two guys

or something in a computer back then, but now since Facebook killed all of journalism,

there's no way it survived. And over there is my beautiful wife and producer, Lydia Smith,

how you doing? I am doing pretty well. Speaking of newspapers, they actually just demolished the old Sackby headquarters here in Sacramento. Oh, man. That was a great building, too. I know. I know. So sad. Like McClatchy bought them out, and then they just demolished the entire building. So, yeah. Well, that's a bummer to start out. Sorry. Support independent journalism. Yeah. You know, we're all,

we're all you've got. Support opening arguments. Patreon.com slash law. Why don't you give us a preview?

What are we going to be talking about today besides your home newspaper? Well, that's what we're

talking about. We got a two-fer. We got a double header from the Boston Globe. They ran two totally boneheaded right-wing op-ed pieces back-to-back on the 13th and 14th of August on topics that we care about. So we're going to talk about those, but we've also got a fun little amused douche from Tucker Carlson. From January 18th, 2021, Tucker Carlson has some opinions about federal troops occupying D.C. Oh, interesting. So we should talk about that first. Was anything going on back then? Like, no time? Some, yeah, something in January, like a couple of things like in January. Crime must have been high. Crime was probably a little high. Yeah, you know D.C. You know D.C. It was very localized crime. Yeah, yeah.

One specific spot.

All right.

Well, that's the vapid we're going to be responding to this week.

So why don't we take a little break for the podcast listeners, and then we'll get to it.

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