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Opening Arguments

Triaging All the Horrible

Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments Media LLC

Atheist, Opinion, Harvard, News, Politics, Legal, Law, Liberal, Supremecourt

4.3 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

OA1116 - We take stock a few days into the second Trump administration to consider the current state of ICE enforcement, Trump’s blatantly unlawful overrule of the recent Supreme Court decision forcing the divestiture of TikTok, and the President’s new venture in cryptocurrency. Finally, today’s footnote honors the efforts of one person who is doing her part to write history as it happens.

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0:00.0

You must never ever give up or give in.

0:03.1

You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.

0:07.5

That is your calling.

0:08.9

That is your mission.

0:10.0

That is your moral obligation.

0:12.0

That is your mandate.

0:13.4

Get out there and do it.

0:15.0

Get in the way.

0:26.6

Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

0:36.6

I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.

0:47.9

I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.

0:55.0

The fight for our country is always worth it.

1:05.3

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1,116. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney. Matt Cameron, how are you doing?

1:11.2

Just a little bit of rage on a Thursday afternoon? Only a little bit. Only a little. I mean, honestly, like, I can't get mad at Trump at this point. I mean, whatever. Trump's going to Trump. But I'm just having a little anger

1:14.4

toward my friends these days. People are supposed to be on our side. And if you talk about that,

1:17.9

we've got some Democrats I've got to get mad at. And I've got interesting how we do this. Like, I do the same thing. Like, I don't think about Trump all that much because it's sort of like we treat them like,

1:31.5

okay, that's just like a cancerous tumor. I'm not going to argue with the tumor. I'm not

1:35.9

going to critique it. It's all the bad medical staff around it. But I was just thinking,

1:40.5

as you said that, though, it is also, I think, unfortunate because I think we do that a lot with the right, and it has led to this thing where the left is the adults in the room who we expect things from, and the right nobody expects anything from.

1:52.6

Yeah, that's not the most of our episode.

2:04.1

Most of our episode today is going to be just trying to figure out what's going on this week, as we always do on Fridays.

2:08.1

There's a lot. Like I said, on, you know, what is it, Tuesday?'s been a long couple of weeks. Here we are.

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