"The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Does Impeachment" Edition

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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President Trump’s impeachment trial begins in the Senate as a prosecutor in Georgia investigates efforts to overturn the election. President Biden sets out to “revitalize” national security and foreign policy in his administration. And the U.S. is (cautiously) rejoining world bodies it left under Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	you guys I know that the second impeachment trial of the president is an
0:04.3	historic unprecedented actually in solemn event but I don't think we should let
0:09.4	the moment pass without thanking the universe for the gift that is his
0:13.7	lawyer Bruce Caster. OMG this guy is to presidential impeachment trials what
0:21.7	Marianne Williamson who's done the credit debates. He's so cringeworthy though it's
0:30.0	like there were a lot of memes of like you know unfrozen caveman lawyer and I like
0:35.7	a chicken lawyer like from you know from the crash from outer space I think he
0:40.7	outdid all of them. I mean it was I was just slack job from the beginning of it
0:46.6	it was it was fabulous and it really reminded me of Marianne Williamson you
0:52.3	were just excited every time it was her turn to talk because he'd had no idea
0:57.3	when it would come out of her mouth. Yeah exactly and so I want to propose that
1:02.2	she should get in trouble and have him represent her. On any hill you would be
1:07.7	with her wouldn't you. Oh yes. Even impeachment. I can get by in this.
1:16.7	Hello and welcome to rational security the unfrozen caveman lawyer does
1:21.4	impeachment edition. Yes. Oh my god. I'm just a caveman. I don't know about
1:30.5	your constitutional processes. Actually if he had said that it would have been
1:35.6	more coherent. This literally this thing was like it looked like an improv
1:41.3	where like the audience like shouted out a prompt or something they're like
1:44.6	Greek Republic go. Did you know there was a Greek Republic? P.S. there wasn't but
1:48.8	apparently there was. Yeah. Athens didn't have a Senate. The on and low of
1:55.4	fun like night I did a poll of the audience which phrase best describes Bruce
1:59.9	Castro's presentation. phrase one was bad trial advocacy. phrase two was
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