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Do the Bushes Sleep at Night? The Nixon Movie and Poppy Bush Theory
from Babies in a Volcano · #53
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6 minTim wonders whether powerful sociopaths like the Bush family are tortured by their actions or totally at peace, referencing Oliver Stone's Nixon and floating the theory that having H.W. Bush as president may have given the intelligence establishment their most direct access to power ever.
- 1:05:38Tim argues that eating a handful of almonds for breakfast won't keep you full, but a guest insists it trains your metabolism to wait an hour before eating again.
- 1:06:07Guest points out Tim is giving weight loss advice while being morbidly obese, comparing him to Jabba the Hutt.
- 1:07:18Tim shifts to MK-Ultra: how do you choose candidates like Sirhan Sirhan for assassination programs—just pick loners from high school records?
- 1:07:54Tim wonders how most people sleep at night knowing the government tried to brainwash citizens into assassins, while he himself eats add-water muffins and drinks soda.
- 1:08:19How does the Bush family handle the truth about what they do—are they actual sociopaths, or do they rationalize it as necessary for the greater good?
- 1:09:04Bush family doesn't seem tortured by their actions; they live comfortably in old age, and George Bush Senior even showed up to the Super Bowl happy.
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