Hello and welcome to opening arguments.

This is back to the VAPID response format, I think.

I'm Thomas Smith.

That over there is the Force Ghost of Matt Cameron projected from that planet that Luke was hanging out on, I think. How are you doing?

This subject took me out. I am dead.

Yeah. No, we're here to talk about a very grave, made-up threat to our nation. So can't wait to get into it.

Always love that. And Lydia, how are you doing? I'm doing okay. I'm feeling spooked out by Matt, but I think the stuff we're going to be covering is spookier. He's not a spooky ghost. No, he's a friendly. Friendly ghost. Yeah. There's a ghost, there's a spooky ghost and then there's a friendly ghost. Matt's like the Casper type. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Never the Twain shelf. Or is maybe Force Ghost is a third. This is a ghost trinary system. Interesting. Interesting. Either way, he's friendly and he's a Force Ghost. Something happened to Matt's camera. We don't know what. We can't figure it out. That's the weirdest thing.

But did our best.

And he's just a little...

The show must go on.

Shiner than normal.

Or he might be that shiny in real life. Like maybe his camera's finally working, right? Yeah. And we finally see him for who he is. Matt, when people run into you on the street, they're like, boy, you're really shiny and almost translucent.

Just explain, everybody in my office wears sunglasses all the time.

Yeah. to you on the street, they're like, boy, you're really shiny and almost translucent. Does explain, but everybody in my office wears sunglasses all the time.

Do you ever accidentally cook like microwave popcorn just by standing near it?

It just goes off.

Good times. No, I'm excited. Why don't you give us a little preview? What vapid nonsense are we

responding to today? Well, I'm the ghost of democracy's future, apparently. That's what we're

talking about here. On October 7th, Donald Trump held a roundtable for very important and very well-respected

journalists, 8 out of 11, in which are associated with Turning Point USA, to let us know about the very incredibly real threat of Capital A Antifa to the United States. So we're going to start out with a little amused douche from Marshall Blackburn to Tennessee, telling us why this is very real, and then we'll just get right into it. And yeah, we've got a lot to cover here. And I also want to take a moment to explain legally why I think this is actually really important. We're not just responding to idiots. We're responding to dangerous idiots who are saying a dangerous thing. Yeah. Always good to get some law in the show. That's important. I do want to cover that. That's what I'm here for. Oh, also, we have our patrons to thank. Oh, yeah. Should we get to that? Let's do it. We need to do any other previewing. Let's do it. All right. Well, we're going to thank our patrons on patreon.com slash a lot of love doing these shoutouts. People change their names or they don't. Both are great. Speaking of different kinds of ghosts, also the two patron system. Veterinary for America, 2028, one man, one vote. Unremarkable. Amina. Donna Treadaway, mother of heritans, protect trans kids. Deep Space Nine was the best Star Trek. Mike Lipinski. Won't lovers revolt now? That's a really good one. That's a, that's a, that's a, I had to like double check.

I was like, is that really, how have I not come across? That also feels like like a call to action a bit too.

Like, yeah, if you're a lover, then you should also be part of the revolution or something. I never come across this.

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