It's amazing. Why we keep loving this country and this country does not love is back.

People are rightfully angry and exhausted. And after the murders of Brianna and George and Ahmad and so many others. It's no wonder people are taken

to the streets. Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckering podcast. I'm a co-host, J.G.Sax

Staten. Returning after an unfortunate absence that left all of our listeners up in arms missing you terribly,

our beloved Nick Halseman is back to talk about just the dreariest awful American politics.

Nick, we're so glad to have you back.

I was in the darkness.

I was what they described last week at the DNC, and it was not a

good place to be. Well, it turns out when you live in an America that can actually take care of

its people, and we have escalating natural disasters and calamities. It turns out sometimes you're

without power and the ability to speak out and use your First Amendment rights. And speaking of, so we are recording this on Thursday, August 27th, that's

going to come out on Friday. We're getting ready to do a live stream where we're going to watch

Donald Trump's nominating speech. Things have been bad the past couple days. Of course, we had the unnecessary

shooting of an African-American man in Wisconsin, followed by a necessary protest, and then

17-year-old with an AR-15, shot two people, killed them, hurt another person. The Republican Party has closed

ranks around a vigilante murderer. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

happening. Obviously, we've been expecting this, predicting this, but he doesn't make it any

less disturbing or any less enraging.

You know, I did an hour-long video on my B-Bball breakdown today interviewing some people in the

community about this because it folds over to what the NBA was doing yesterday by, you know,

boycotting the games yesterday. They're boycotting today.

I believe they're starting up either tomorrow or Saturday because, A, I wanted to get a sense of like, what does that really mean?

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