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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | It is the 19th of May. |
0:02.0 | This is the warning. |
0:04.0 | We must talk about the insanity that broke loose late on Sunday night. |
0:12.0 | In another meltdown on social media by the untreated psychiatric patient that works in the Oval Office. |
0:21.6 | America's Nero, our dime store Mussolini, the Donald, a bragger and cheap queen's hustler |
0:30.6 | through the make-believe lens of television went from being a serially bankrupt buffoon |
0:38.3 | to the all-American success, presiding over disputes |
0:43.4 | between Gary Busey and Meatloaf. |
0:46.5 | And so with that deep experience, |
0:49.7 | and for a lot of other reasons, |
0:52.2 | this man has come to dominate American politics for 10 long years. |
0:58.5 | And we should think about the journey and how far we've come as a nation over that 10 years |
1:06.3 | as if we were on a river. We don't know where the river ends. How long will journey down it. |
1:14.1 | We can just sense how far we've come. And within that, I have a question. |
1:19.2 | But if you think back to that moment where Trump came down the escalator to this, where he's calling |
1:26.5 | for the imprisonment and the investigation and the punishment of |
1:30.8 | Bruce Springsteen and Oprah and Bono and Beyonce, because they dared to express an opinion, |
1:39.0 | dared to offer a breadth of dissent against the Donalds, who many, many tens of millions of Americans, |
1:47.8 | 100 million strong and growing at least, |
1:50.8 | who think is a tyrant without comparison, |
1:54.6 | except perhaps to King George III, |
1:57.4 | who was the last man who declared himself sovereign, and it didn't work out well for him. |
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