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My son and I finished the Netflix mini-series Death by Lightning about the assassination of James Garfield, which is way more entertaining than you might guess if you just heard that description.

But one of the things that happens after President Garfield is assassinated or shot before he dies is the vice president who had been involved,

Chester A. Arthur, who involved with some other scumbags and some really, really hot rhetoric about the president was feeling super guilty that their hot rhetoric about, you know, the equivalent of calling Garfield a Nazi today, led to him being shot.

And then the argument was, well, no, he was a crazy person that shot him.

Yeah, but we put these thoughts in his head with our hot rhetoric.

I thought that was pretty interesting, given our current times.

And a lot of the things the politicians say now, where you're putting the thoughts into the heads of crazy people that they are justified in very, very violent or awful behavior.

Right, right.

And if you're going to go around calling ICE officers Nazis,

some people are going to, you know, take that seriously.

Right, and worse.

Just never-ending descriptions of them is illegitimate, fake police, masked, violence, ignoring

the law, that sort of thing.

I listened to an absolutely terrific history podcast not long ago.

I think you may have too, Jack, but they were talking about

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