No Presidential Pardon from the Black Box of Doom

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No Presidential Pardon from the Black Box of Doom

CIB #218

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Dec 04, 2024

CIB is back atop your podcast feed with a bit of yapping about the news of the week and then more than an hour of trying to explain how a dead author’s muse and an interview with the stars of the hit movie musical Wicked and a novel about a depressive incel Lyft driver are all evidence of the same thing—that we should all probably take our magical pocket supercomputers and smash them against the nearest brick wall. It’s an old theme of ours, but still plenty to mine from it, apparently! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Thanksgiving recap!
10:10 — WGAS NewsBag; Kash Patel to head the FBI?; President Biden pardons his son Hunter
48:50 — Cormac McCarthy and Augusta Britt and Wicked and the Black Box of Doom, oh my!
1:55:11 — Wrap-up! Gladiator II; Great British Baking Show

Relevant Linkage

AP: Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do

NYT: Kash Patel Has Plan to Remake the F.B.I. Into a Tool of Trump

The White House: Statement from President Joe Biden

CNN: Democrats left fuming over Biden’s decision to pardon his son — after he repeatedly said he wouldn’t

NYT: How Biden Changed His Mind on Pardoning Hunter: ‘Time to End All of This’

Politico: The Hunter Biden pardon gives Donald Trump powerful new political cover

AP: Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter spurs broader discussion on who else should be granted clemency

Politico: Republicans plot rule-busting plans for next year — The GOP-controlled Congress is poised to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn Biden administration rules.

Vanity Fair: Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”

NYT: A Long-Held Secret Is Now Public. Will It Alter Cormac McCarthy’s Legacy?

Slate: An Interview With the Vanity Fair Writer Whose Cormac McCarthy Scoop Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons