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Rational Security

The "Domestic in the Extreme" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The storming of the Capitol on January 6 has exposed the long-simmering threat of domestic extremism in the United States. How will the Biden administration combat it? Protests break out across Russia as a prominent dissident returns home. And can we just skip impeachment and get to the 14th Amendment?

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0:00.0

So is anybody else a little bit bored? A little bit. Yeah. I mean I'm I'm busy but I feel like the tone overall is just soothing.

0:11.0

So we don't we don't live in suspense for the next tweet.

0:17.0

We don't.

0:18.0

What are you like an interrenaline junk?

0:19.4

We don't, we don't have the horse in the hospital thing going on about like, oh, what's the horse going to do today?

0:26.0

And I just want to say, you know, I'm not being entertained right now.

0:31.0

I need the president to get on Twitter right now. I need the president to get on Twitter right now. I need I need

0:35.5

some I need to know what he's watching on TV, how he's spending his time. I need

0:39.5

some anger tweeting, preferably he could do it on the toilet.

0:44.0

I don't even, like Ben is like the person who, like, you know, the doctors remove the axe

0:48.9

from his head and he's like, you know.

0:52.2

That was holding in my brain, put it back. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Domestic in the Extreme Edition.

1:07.0

Yeah, the real world is normal again, so we have to make everything sound extreme. I'm not bored. is schedule is like. I think we just turn rational security into a monster truck show.

1:28.0

Being an audio program that will be interesting. No I mean you're, Shane, because what's going on is that the White House is like, on

1:35.8

Tuesday, we're going to have a coronavirus briefing.

1:39.3

And then on Tuesday, they have a coronavirus briefing, and's like informative and they answer questions and then you know

1:46.8

It's like if they said there was going to be an infrastructure week there would actually be an infrastructure week. We can plan around it. Right, right. Nobody

1:54.9

comes out and tells you to inject things into your veins. No bleach. No bleach.

2:00.3

There's not even not even close. I mean like they're letting Anthony

2:03.2

Fauchy talk. Also just like the idea that you can take things at face value like

2:09.0

a call like Memcom comes out and you're like okay I don't need to wait two weeks for the leaked version of this to be

2:16.0

contradicted, like I can just respond on the basis of this, are you sure?

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