Hey everybody.

Something a little different.

We, Nick and I taped our usual episode, a really good episode.

You should keep listening.

Great conversation with Melissa Ryan and a good conversation about what's going on in the world and the analysis that, unfortunately, you're going to listen to to proved to be correct and true.

We predicted that Trump was going to lash out and lead to the moment that has happened.

Unfortunately, later in the evening after taping the podcast, all hell broke loose as Donald Trump staged a photo op wherein protesters were roughed up, shot with rubber bullets

and tear gas so he could look strong out in public after leaving his bunker like a coward

and then went to a burnt-up church and held up a Bible, which we need to get into the meaning of that,

but we had to address it, right, Nick?

Absolutely.

In fact, as soon as we stopped recording and I turned on the TV, I was just standing there,

dumbfounded, even though we did sense that this was going to happen, but I don't know if I could

have, you know, sense that what they were going to do was schedule a speech for him

with no questions afterwards, a very short speech, which he barely could get through,

while they're flashbangging a crowd to get out to get them out of the way so he can literally

walk out the front door to the church, which is like never happened. And I actually was going to mention this notion

of, you know, Nixon in the midst of all the tumultuousness at four in the morning goes and hangs out

with a bunch of the, you know, the college students who were at the Washington Memorial and ends up

having discussion about like Syracuse football. It was the most manic, strange thing that ever

happened there.

And so you have to wonder like if it's some sort of echo of that too where he's now going to, because Nixon walked there as well. But anyway, it's insane. And these are the, all these steps that are just making it worse. And we knew that this was going to make it, what was going to make it worse was this whole bunker thing. And when the, when people found out that he was sent to the I mentioned this, you'll hear it in the pod, what his reaction was going to be. Clearly, this was out of that, was that he needed to do something like change that narrative of him hiding and cowering in a bunker. Yeah, that's the word, is that, and we talk about it later on the podcast, which you should totally listen to.

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