01:00 Senator Fetterman gets it: Trump Throws DC Establishment Into Turmoil With Matt Gaetz Pick For Attorney General, with Ruthless, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pj-k6VKBY
11:00 Mark Halperin: We’ve never had a president like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbfQTAr_6Y
14:00 I’m pleasantly surprised by how the election has changed the world around me for the good
Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxIHrhw5Eo
24:00 Franklin Foer: Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trumps-cabinet-announcements-have-broken-government/680656/
42:00 Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence Terrifies the Establishment, w/ Ruthless Podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpyKHb4ABuc
46:30 The New York Times will publish longer better profiles of these Trump nominees than anyone else
48:00 New York Times chastened by the election
55:30 Matt Gaetz is friendly with AOC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxIHrhw5Eo
59:45 Commentary: I forgot about the volume of news when Trump is president
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1:07:00 Elliott hates corn syrup, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_syrup
1:18:00 Why did America become morally flabby?
1:37:00 New Amsterdam, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(2018_TV_series)
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