314: Who are the Democrats calling ‘garbage’?

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

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Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the US election, slavery reparations and the Southport revelations.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Fraser here. Before we get on to this week's Spike Podcast, I just wanted to remind you to get your signed copy of Brendan O'Neill's after the pogrom.
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0:37.1	Now on with the show. Hello and welcome back to the Spike
0:39.7	podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and I'm delighted to be joined as ever by Spike's editor Tom Slater.
0:44.7	Hello. And returning guest, Spiked columnist Luke Gettos. Hello.
0:49.2	Got loads to talk about today. We'll be discussing next week's US elections, the madness of slavery reparations,
0:56.2	and why it's so difficult to talk about Southport.
1:03.5	US elections next week, probably the tightest elections in living memory. I think in the past
1:09.0	week or so, we've seen people go low quite a lot.
1:12.3	I think it's fair to say, Tom. Kamala and her campaign are outright calling Trumpist Nazis.
1:18.6	They're not even calling them semi-fascist or authoritarian or skirting around it in any way,
1:23.1	particularly after this rally Trump held in Madison Square Garden. Do you want to tell us a little
1:27.9	bit about that? No, absolutely. I think we've become a bit too accustomed to this level of hyperbole,
1:34.5	isn't the right word, but just outright blatant demonisation of Trump and his support base.
1:40.2	But I think it was really striking this time around as well with this big rally in Madison Square Garden, as you say, tens of thousands of people there.
1:48.0	And pretty mainstream outlets just openly comparing it to Nazism, to specifically there was infamously a rally of Nazi supporters of American Nazis in 1939 that took place in Madison Square Garden
2:01.6	and people just openly comparing this. I'm talking about MSNBC interspersing footage of the two events
2:06.1	as if to draw parallels as well as various kind of write-ups referencing this, talking about
2:12.1	the rally itself as a kind of orgy of bigotry which hearts back to the worst points in the 20th century.
2:19.0	On the one hand, you think they would just drop this for no other reason, then it's gotten very
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