Gorsuch, the Nuclear Option, and Trump's Foreign Policy

• 27:31Republicans invoke the nuclear option to bypass the filibuster and confirm judges by simple majority.
• 28:04Replacing Scalia with Gorsuch doesn't shift the court ideologically since both are conservative.
• 28:33Tim argues Trump doesn't care about judicial ideology, which is one of the biggest concerns people have about his administration.
• 28:47U.S. airstrikes killed 200 people in Iraq today, undermining Trump's claim he'd be different on foreign policy.
• 29:11Sean Spicer blames Syria's chemical attacks on weakness of the previous administration rather than U.S. destabilization of the region.
• 29:43Sexually frustrated men with no jobs or entertainment—like stand-up comedy—are naturally drawn toward extremism.
• 30:14Tim rejects the hypothetical game of imagining oneself as ISIS to justify their actions.
• 30:40Assad probably purchased chemical weapons from the United States, which manufactures and deals in death.
• 31:01Multiple layers of government obfuscation create the appearance of a unified one-world control system by design.
• 31:21The later seasons of The West Wing resemble the 2008 election cycle, suggesting art imitates political reality.

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