1156 Maura Quint Returns ! Along with News Headlines and Sound Bites from the Weekend
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Maura Quint is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants’ rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org
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| 0:00.0 | These guys are just weird. That's where they are. So it isn't much else. Don't give them the power. Look, are they a threat to democracy? Yes. Are they going to take our rights away? Yes. Are they going to put people's lives in danger. Yes. Are they going to endanger the planet by not dealing with climate |
| 0:13.2 | change yes they're going to do all that but don't lift these guys up like there's |
| 0:16.4 | sometimes heroes everybody in this room knows I know it as a teacher a bully |
| 0:20.0 | has no self-confidence a bully has no self-confidence, a bully has no strength, they have nothing. |
| 0:25.0 | The fascist depend on fear, the fascist depend on us going back, but we're not afraid of weird people. |
| 0:36.4 | We're a little bit creeped out, but we're not afraid. |
| 0:41.3 | But look, and then as you heard this and one day ago a poll came out and showed |
| 0:46.3 | Combele Harris up 10 points and Donald Trump getting his ass handed to him |
| 0:50.3 | and he said sorry doing here in myself. But he's here today in the state of hockey. To complete his trifecta he lost in 16 he lost in 20 he loses in 24 |
| 1:11.6 | Hello and welcome to your week whom I welcome you to your week it's the final |
| 1:17.3 | Monday of July it's July 28th if you're listening on this day and I've got the great Mara Quint joining me. She's always |
| 1:25.2 | awesome. That conversation begins at 28 minutes into today's show. I hope you |
| 1:31.3 | had a great weekend and I want to open the show by reading from Heather |
| 1:36.8 | Cox Richardson the great historian that we all celebrate who by the way he |
| 1:40.9 | retweeted me yesterday? She writes, |
| 1:43.2 | just a week ago, it seems a new America began. |
| 1:46.6 | I've struggled ever since to figure out what the apparent sudden |
| 1:49.5 | revolution in our politics means. |
| 1:51.7 | I keep coming back to the Ernest Hemingway quote about how bankruptcy |
| 1:55.4 | happens. |
| 1:56.4 | He said it happens in two stages. |
| 1:58.4 | First, gradually, and then suddenly. |
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