#283 Mount Rushmore's Star-Spangled Scammer

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Sup podcast is back! Sami and Amanda start by debriefing a holiday weekend characterized more by grief and anger as we collectively realize the American ideal is a scam. Then they dive into new statistics highlighting the racial disparities in COVID-19 infections, which found that Black and Latino Americans are three times more likely to get sick, and twice as likely to die from the disease. They also explore what the focus on co-morbidities erases from the broader conversation about who gets infected and why. Finally, they cover Trump’s batty Mount Rushmore rally and the news that ICE will revoke visas for international students who cannot attend in-person classes in the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches Media presents.
0:02.0	I like beer. I don't know if you do. You like beer, senator, or not?
0:05.0	My party is going bet shit crazy.
0:07.0	Agh!
0:08.0	You're the puppy.
0:09.0	Alternative facts.
0:10.0	Oh goodness. The Betches up podcast.
0:13.0	America!
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to the Betches
0:18.0	sub podcast. I'm Sammy Fishbine.
0:20.0	And I'm Amanda Doberman.
0:21.0	And the Betches sub podcast is your daily rundown of all the
0:23.7	craziest shit happening in the news brought to you by your two funniest friends
0:27.4	which is us today we're talking about racial disparities in COVID-19, back to school season, and the President's
0:35.2	race-bating speech at Mount Rushmore. Let's get into it. Today felt like the day to
0:40.0	bring back the the run-through because there's just so many topics every day.
0:44.8	There are so many.
0:45.8	It's like we're now just living with the backdrop of Corona and the backdrop of BLM as sort of the baseline that we're all working from and then we're building the news on top of those.
0:58.2	These are the B plots. Yeah, or they could take over, you know, I don't know.
1:03.6	Sometimes we get bottle episodes.
1:06.6	I love a bottle episode.
1:07.7	I think the Mount Rushmore thing was a little bit of a model episode,
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