(2016/11/11) In the Days After (Election 2016)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 November 2016
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1057
Today we reflect on the 2016 election, examine the variety of feelings it has brought fourth and contemplate the next steps ahead of us
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump's America- This is What Happens Now - Jay Smooth - Air Date: 11-9-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: S.O.S. - The Suicide Machines
Ch. 4: Act 2: 'This was a whitelash' Van Jones' take on the election results - CNN - Air Date 11-08-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: So Terrible It's Terrifying - Earmint
Ch. 6: Act 3: Mourn, Resist, Organize - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 11-9-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Call for Help - Clay Schneider
Ch. 8: Act 4: Feel your feelings and get to work - Throwing Shade w: @BryanSafi and @gibblertron - Air Date 11-9-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Run Screaming - Stockdale and Shapiro
Ch. 10: Act 5: The day after, take care of yourself - @EdgeofSports - w: Dave Zirin - Air Date 11-11-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Fear, Terror, and the Fear of Terror - Infinite Third
Ch. 12: Act 6: Anger is an appropriate response - #PoliticallyReactive with @wkamaubell and @harikondabolu - Air Date 11-10-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: When Anger Shows - Editors
Ch. 14: Act 7: National Popular Vote - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 6-13-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: Help - Howie Day
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Kids in fear after the election - Anonymous
Ch. 18: Mad as hell and sick to my stomach - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 19: Moving forward with self care - Dave from Olympia, WA
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on privilege as a superpower and the campaign for a national popular vote
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | I hate being told not to be angry because anger is an appropriate response to so much of the injustice |
| 0:07.0 | That marginalized people face if you're not angry then you're not paying attention something is really missing if you're not angry |
| 0:15.7 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show to support the work we do and get members only bonus content |
| 0:21.4 | Please visit the contribute tab at best of the left calm now welcome to the award winning best of a left podcast with clips today from J smooth |
| 0:29.6 | Van Jones start making sense from the nation magazine throwing shade edge of sports radio with Dave Zyron |
| 0:36.5 | Politically reactive the Ralph Nader radio hour and democracy now |
| 0:44.4 | I'm scared and I'm ashamed |
| 0:48.4 | We failed last night |
| 0:51.8 | There's no time for you for Missons right now America chose hate last night |
| 0:56.0 | It's not a new kind of hate. It's an all-American kind of hate. It's a hate that we knew |
| 1:01.9 | Was always here, but we wanted to believe it wasn't strong enough to win anymore and we were wrong hate one last night |
| 1:10.4 | And let's not beat around the bush white America chose hate last night if you saw these numbers in any other category |
| 1:18.0 | You wouldn't dance around calling it what it is so don't dance around this. This is white supremacy |
| 1:23.7 | There might be a complex web of reasons why that choice was made there might be a whole array of ways that people rationalized that choice |
| 1:31.4 | But that is the choice that was made America chose white supremacy last night |
| 1:36.7 | Some people want to say it was the last gasp of white supremacy if that's the case and it's the hell of a gasp |
| 1:41.8 | And I don't know what comes next. I'm not gonna stand here and say |
| 1:47.2 | We're gonna survive. I'm not gonna say we'll be okay. How can I say that? |
| 1:52.5 | To immigrants and Muslims and women who want control of their bodies. How do I say? |
| 1:57.9 | To my family my family grew up in Shamburg projects with the Central Park five |
| 2:02.4 | How do I look my cousins in the eye knowing that they saw what happened to those boys and that 20 years after the fact |
| 2:08.9 | This man was still asking for their blood |
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