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🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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With so much happening on the campaign trail, we turn to Jamelle Bouie for his first visit to the podcast. We discuss Donald Trump and JD Vance's attacks on the truth with their harmful comments on Haitian immigrants and their lies about abortion. We look at different Senate races around the country and what they could mean for the next President. And we get into Project 2025 and examine just how far Republicans are willing to let Trump go should he become President again. Spoiler alert: it would be terrifying!
Read Jamelle's latest in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/column/jamelle-bouie
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change, and this time. |
0:10.2 | This time I really mean it because joining me is Jamel Bowie op-ed writer for the New York Times. |
0:17.9 | We start off talking about the millions of undocumented immigrants that Trump is going to |
0:23.7 | deport. Trump and J.D. Vance keep referring to the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, |
0:30.2 | as illegal when in fact the Haitians in Springfield are legal immigrants who were admitted |
0:36.3 | legally into the country and were sought after, |
0:40.2 | sought out to fill jobs that needed filling in their fair city. |
0:45.4 | But none of that matters to Trump and Vance, neither of whom, it seems, has the slightest bit of |
0:51.6 | compunction about lying about people who, like my grandparents, |
0:55.5 | came to our country for a better life. Of course, what is weird, if I may use Tim Walz's |
1:02.2 | term, what is weird about Vance is that he acknowledged that he and Trump knew the eating |
1:08.9 | pets thing was a lie before Trump told it during his debate with |
1:13.7 | Harris. That is weird. Now, Trump, you know, has no compunction about lying. He repeats the same |
1:22.1 | lies over and over again, even though they've been shown to be lies over and over. |
1:28.5 | My current favorite is that it's legal in blue states not only to have an abortion all |
1:35.1 | the way through the nine months, all the way up to nine months, but it's perfectly legal |
1:40.5 | to kill a baby after he or she has been born. Infanticide is legal in blue states around the |
1:49.5 | country, according to Trump. Now, how do you suppose they execute the newborn? And who does it? |
1:58.0 | The OBGYN, a nurse, certainly not the mom, I would hope. That's dark. |
2:07.2 | That's dark. Okay. But when Tim Walz calls these guys weird, it fits like a glove. |
2:15.8 | Of course, Walls and Vance will be going at it on Tuesday night. Vance is a |
2:20.8 | graduate of Yale Law School. Walls is a high school social studies teacher. I think that gives |
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