Ben Rhodes
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12,021 appearances
36 recordings
12 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I share your concerns that filling a gigantic landmark that is unobstructed from all directions with a massive amount of explosives that
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on some charge is probably not a good idea.
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I will tell you that I'm so authoritarian-pilled too, though, that I was like, well, wait a second.
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Will the military coup in 2028 begin from the arch?
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Oh, yeah.
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I was literally like, is Trump going to be like pre-positioning like drones and ammunition around Washington so that when he calls Pete Hegseth and Raisin Cane or whoever's left in the military and says like, we must not allow this Ossoff election to go forward or whoever it is, I'm not picking a favorite.
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Yeah.
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That thought weirdly was the first one in my mind, more than the operational security.
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Maybe they'll fill the Kennedy Center with weapons to make it a national security imperative to rebuild it.
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I don't know.
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That's where my head went.
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It's a monument to authoritarianism.
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It's a potential risk to flights, right?
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But it's also like, again, not to be, I'm very rarely nostalgic about my time in Washington.
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I do think one of the best and most beautiful things about Washington is that you have the Lincoln Memorial.
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and then Memorial Bridge, which goes to Arlington National Cemetery, which was a Civil War cemetery.
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And our guys, the radical Republicans, after stomping out slavery and defeating the South, intentionally put that...
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right in front of where Robert E. Lee used to live.
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So that part of D.C.
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is all about our Civil War history.
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