Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. All right. So for today's Patreon episode,

I'm just going to be talking about current events and specifically Trump's inauguration and the first

few days of his administration, what we're seeing and what that all means. I mean, the freeze on federal

grants and loans, the wielding of executive power, the mass deportation attempt that's going on,

and the unleashing of oligarchy, which I think is probably going to be the defining feature of the Trump administration.

But we'll get to that in a second.

The first thing to say is, I don't know, this is kind of personal, but it just happened.

So it's fresh in my mind.

I might as well talk about it a little bit.

And this is all just to thank you all for supporting the show because I just got, I wouldn't

say terrible, but not wonderful medical news. I've been

struggling for several months since last summer, basically, with just some groin and stomach

abdominal pain. It gets worse when I work out or try to do anything athletic or physical.

It comes and goes throughout the day, sharp pains, et cetera. I don't know if many of you can relate

to this. I'm sure many of you can. I don't have health insurance. I don't, I can't afford it.

Obviously, I just do this for an income and there's no benefits. There's no health care. There's no nothing.

I have three kids and I try to make sure that they're taking care of.

And, you know, I try to live a healthy life and take care of my body so that I don't need to use, you know, the health care system.

But, you know, life is never going to let you get through it without difficulties.

We all have something. We all will have things that we have to

face throughout our life, mental and physical illnesses. And certainly God has deemed it fit to give me

plenty of mental issues to work through, you know. And now it looks like I'm getting some physical

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