Inauguration Eve Notes From D.C.'s Green Zone
“Inauguration Day makes me grumpy.”

With inauguration less than 24 hours away, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch discuss what they would like to see happen in the new Biden administration vs. what will most likely transpire.
Discussed in the show:
1:21: inauguration speeches and security theater
17:31: Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package and eviction moratoriums
33:14: the $15 minimum wage
44:17: Trump's parting pardons
56:19: media recommendations of the week
Other links:
"The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror," by Spencer Ackerman
"Biden's $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Package Includes More Stimulus Checks, State Government Bailout, $15 Federal Minimum Wage," by Eric Boehm
"The Year Teachers Unions Killed the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg," by Matt Welch
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Audio production by Ian Keyser.
Assistant production by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve.
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Bad news, guys; we don't care anymore.
They would be much better at their craft if they left D.C.
Maybe some of them.
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"what they would like to see happen in the new Biden administration vs. what will most likely transpire"
I'm guessing these two things are different.
They will act befuddled when the contrast occurs.
They’re already befuddled, and all that’s happened so far is the Dems are saying the same shit they said before the election.
You mean that the Democratic party isn't really the party of free speech and free markets?
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The green zone? Really? Now we're correspondents in war torn Iraq?
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Government is just the name of the things we choose to do together.
You, me, and 20,000 National Guard troops.
Democratic party voting National Guard troops. They took their political test.
July 2020, DNC headquarters:
"Hey everyone, we'll fight this election on the up and up, but just for shits and giggles, how can we look like we stole the upcoming election and staged a coup?"
"Have the legacy and social media blatantly collude to suppress negative stories about our candidate?"
"I know, have our guys lock the observers out of the polling places"
"let have our legacy and social media guys clumsily sanction anyone who questions the results"
"Let's do one better and shut down websites that still allow people to talk about it"
"I know, lets publicly call for reeducation camps and investigations on anyone who voted for our opponents"
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"And then let's declare a war on terror but against our own citizens"
"Yeah, and then at the inauguration we can fill DC with razor wire and troops"
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You forgot their plan to start healing and build unity by impeaching the President for inciting insurrection by asking his supporters to protest peacefully and patriotically.
When you're Biden's age, pretty much everything makes you grumpy.
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A person wakes up from a comma and has to adjust to the reality that we are living in a bad science fiction dystopia with a Green Zone to separate those in power from their subjects.
It's amazing that with every vacillating cycle change between the two Statist political parties, it always gets worse.
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