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Michael and Us

#214 - Tracy Flick for President

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We finally watch one of our most requested movies: the political parable ELECTION (1999), which presents a vision of American politics circa 1999 as represented by three student candidates and one faculty power-broken in a high school election. PLUS: Neera Tanden, the Golden Globes, and what happens to culture when the zeitgeist is taken away? Subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

What do you think Ferris is going to do?

0:04.3

Welcome to Michael and us.

0:06.9

Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will SLOGELMAN, Hello, everyone.

0:23.6

Did you see, by the way, that just a couple of minutes before we started recording, the news dropped that Neerotandon isn't going to get that government job?

0:28.3

Turns out, after all, was said and done. Twitter does matter after all.

0:32.0

I mean, I'm not normally in favor of people getting fired or having opportunities lost because of things

0:38.6

they've tweeted in the past. But, you know, I am a nuanced thinker. I mean, I think that's

0:44.5

very frustrating about the whole sort of meta debate, you know, that's swirled around this,

0:49.0

this prospective nomination is that, I mean, among all the things you could criticize her for,

0:53.7

I mean, she's done far worse, right? Like, this became a, I mean, among all the things you could criticize her for, I mean, she's done

0:54.5

far worse, right? Like, this became a debate about mean tweets rather than, you know, union busting or

1:01.1

some of the donors that she courted it as the head of one of the most important liberal think tanks

1:06.3

in America, became a meta debate sort of about all that. Although I actually do have the sort of further

1:11.7

meta, meta take that a lot of her tweets kind of were a problem and that it's not simply just a case

1:16.7

about, you know, pointing out the hypocrisy of people who complained about, you know, snake emojis or

1:22.0

whatever now standing by this. I actually do think it's worthy of condemnation that the head of something that

1:28.2

builds itself is the leading, you know, one of the leading progressive actors in on the

1:32.4

Washington scene conducts themselves that way online. And I think that is worthy of

1:36.9

criticism. Well, you know, they got Al Capone for his tax evasion. I think that

1:42.2

principle applies here. I do think that they should do this for all

1:45.8

annoying online personalities. Like everybody on Twitter who kind of sucks should have like a government

1:50.9

job presented and then taken away from them. Like Noah Berlatsky should have to endure this

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