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021726: Bondi Blunders, Bro's Before Boundaries, and Broadcast Bullies


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In this episode of However Comma, Jack Brett and Jess spiral from Pam Bondi’s “Dow 50,000” Epstein hearing performance into what the files, redactions, and statutes of limitation say about impunity, transparency, and who the system is really protecting.​They dig into DOJ roadblocks, Thomas Massie’s unlikely hero turn, and conspiracy rabbit holes about whether Epstein’s death was suicide or something far murkier, before leaping to term limits, a millennial-led constitutional do-over, and why “wipe the slate” might be the only way to deal with a geriatric political class that doesn’t understand AI-age threats.​From Pete Hegseth’s authoritarian-flavored tantrum over Anthropic’s refusal to power mass surveillance, to Stephen Colbert’s fight with CBS over equal-time rules, Bill Maher’s COVID takes, and whether Scott Galloway should share a stage with Steve Bannon, the conversation keeps testing how far free speech, media gatekeeping, and depolarization should really go.​Along the way, they detour through uncanny valley neuroscience, capitalism as “vote-with-your-wallet” accountability, jihadism vs Christian nationalism, and why refusing to appear in hostile media spaces might be both emotionally understandable and strategically self-defeating in a country this polarized.

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