They're just kids.

There's 38-year-old kids, you know, just doing Nazi stuff.

You can't hold him a kid.

We're just going to ruin their life for this.

I'm putting this individual on trial for a crime he committed in our state that is outside the bounds of what the Fed This is episode 1229. I'm Thomas Smith.

Well, as you're no doubt aware, there's another awful, terrible, heartbreaking public execution over the weekend. I don't know if it's just the

particulars of this one or just the cumulative effect, but boy, this one sure hit me hard. I've

been trying to record a serious inquiries only on it, but I've tried and failed a lot of times.

It's, it's hard to even have the words. So I'm going to probably keep trying for that.

Keep an eye on that feed if you'd like to hear my thoughts.

But I wanted to note that Janessa and I actually recorded this after the last public execution,

not immediately after, some time had passed.

Janessa thought, and she was absolutely right, that it would be great to take us on a deep dive on not just qualified

immunity, which I think we all know something about, but really clarifying a bunch of different

things around the theme of holding the government accountable or government agents accountable at

different levels, state, federal, all that stuff. I just wanted to note, though, that this

was definitely

recorded at a different time before the events of this weekend, back in the carefree days

of like a week ago, relatively speaking. All right, I'll hand it right over to Janessa and I,

and, oh, and important to note, this was a two-parter by design.

Genessa had so much to teach us. Because of kind of the way the schedule works,

unfortunately I have to go Monday to Monday, which is I don't love, but that means you're going to have

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