So guys based on the events of the past 24 maybe even 12 hours would we call this the

beginning of the end times or the end of the beginning times? I think we would

call it it's like a William Butler Yates kind of moment.

That's very poetic. It just looks like a big stupid lip where we're like that was dumb this whole thing was dumb and that it looks

smaller and smaller the further we get away from it I'm not optimistic that will be

the case but that's my hope.

Well, I think that this is a really troubling indicator of where we are,

but I also think that in some ways this is just the start of something far worse.

It also occurs to me specifically pointed to what the this is and there are about 18 things right now.

Yeah, I just want to see you're all a bunch of Debbie Downers.

I'm elated, like Warnock and Asof one Georgia. We got Merrick Garland appointed. So some people want to have a riot and have a- Storm the Capitol.

Like storm the Capitol.

Chill out!

It'll be fine.

All is well. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the peaceful transition of power edition.

I'm Shane Harris. I am barricaded in a studio.

Are you feeling peaceful? No. I'm feeling very peaceable, but our city is really not peaceful.

I'm feeling peace loving, but I feel like the people down the street maybe not so much. I'm lying in my hammock watching the

coup on TV. Oh God. Yeah you and the rest of America, man. There's some gala's humor here today.

I am here in the remote jungle studio

with my good friends, Ben Wittis, Tom Rockoff,

And Susan Henancy,

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