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I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Magna.

Episode 107. What's your headline?

Don't exhaust your indignation.

Testing times for that, but tell me more.

Well, don't exhaust your indignation at what George Will anathomizes as, quote, this stinking moral slum of an administration.

Wow.

He's, of course, alluding to the incessant assaults on decency, the daily insults to intelligence, the crudity, crime, corruption.

Our anger drained, we can't meet this moment having so many to meet.

And, you know, I'm just simply in recent days, just on Wednesday, we had the courage performance of the Attorney General Pam Bondi before the House committee.

You know, a kind of childish tantrum at throwing off-the-wall insults at the Democratic members for asking questions.

You know, that's a sort of landmark, something that would never have happened before.

And then, of course, just several days before we have Donald Trump's sending out that racist, you know, meme video of the Obama's.

And then he's asked about it.

And his unconscious provides the perfect answer.

He said, I didn't make a mistake.

The opposite of a mistake is intention.

In other words, I intended to do it.

That's what he in effect said.

But, you know, for me, it's the little thing sometimes that just you look at it and you seize

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