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Mike & Jay open the present with a couple of updates adopted by a dialogue of President Biden’s remark that. “We’ve not confronted the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Disaster”. The blokes agree that whereas this can be technically true, it wasn’t probably the most politically astute factor for Biden to say, and it’s yet one more instance of his penchant for lower than useful public statements.

Subsequent they contemplate the current Biden administration ban of superior laptop chip expertise to China. Whereas Mike & Jay favor free commerce as a default, on this occasion they really feel the administration made a smart resolution.

Following that, it’s a take a look at Biden’s mass pardon of everybody convicted on federal marijuana possession expenses. As soon as once more, the blokes are in settlement that this was a great factor to do. They get right into a broader dialogue of pot legalization the place they specific some considerations over the transfer to legalize it within the absence of a stable physique of analysis on the long-term results of marijuana use.

After that, they flip to the newest developments on the paperwork seized by the federal government within the search of Donald Trump’s dwelling and workplace. Jay explains the authorized technicalities, and each Mike and Jay conclude that even when the Supreme Court docket offers Trump what he desires, it can in the end be a delay that in all probability received’t have a significant impact on the end result of the investigation.

They shut by discussing the state of the federal judiciary because the Supreme Court docket begins up its new time period. The main target is on corruption – why Ken commonly makes use of the time period to explain actions of assorted conservative judges, what he means by the time period, why Jay takes situation with that utilization, and the way bias and motivated reasoning are inherent components of any human decision-making course of.

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