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The G Word and the Truth About Our Government with Michael Lewis

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Cd C, Long Before Trump, Had Abandoned Its Role in Actual Battlefield Command

The C d c, long before trump, had abandoned its role in actual battlefield command. It's essentially an academic it's turned itself into an academic institution and its glory days are all really a quite a long time ago. And so the health officers were cynical about the c d c well before trump was elected. In fact, charity dean te, the health officer who was my main character said, we really should stop calling at the centers for disease control. We should start calling at the centres for disease observation and ing,. because that's what they do. You want to see a career civil servant and and and, with the effect of being one, is anthony fouchey verse.

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