#52: William Blake 2024

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The panel discusses how to advocate for unpopular policies, Pete enters Lefty Shark Tank to defend the concept of a wrongful incarceration tort, and everyone debates which lefties could defeat Trump in a "vibe-off". At one point Aisling says William Blake has been "dead for four hundred years" even though she knows full well it's actually more like two hundred. Zero points to Aisling. The panel this week was legal editor Oren Nimni, lieutenant editor Brianna Rennix, podmaster-general Aisling McCrea, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host is Pete Davis. Music at the end by the always-wonderful Danny Bradley. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your ears, greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:13.8	I'm back, and tonight on the program, we discuss what it means to fight for something that is not popular yet.
0:22.7	I enter the lefty shark tank to bitch, oh, to pitch, to pitch, to pitch,
0:29.1	to pitch, shock with that word, came back to that word came back.
0:33.9	And we all share who we think on our side could go toe to toe with Trump in a weird
0:39.8	vibes competition.
0:42.2	Our panel tonight, legal editor, Orenemney.
0:46.9	Hello, everyone.
0:48.2	Current Affairs Podmaster General Ashling McCray.
0:51.2	Hello.
0:51.8	Current Affairs Lieutenant editor, Priyana Renix.
0:54.7	Hi, guys.
0:55.9	And I've missed saying this.
0:58.1	The editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.
1:03.6	Oh, hello.
1:04.6	Glad we're all here, everyone.
1:05.9	We begin with segment one, practical tactical.
1:09.8	In the recurring segment, practical tactical, we discuss different
1:13.4	tactics and strategies being used in the political fights of the early 2020s and whether we think
1:19.9	they are good, useful, moral, and effective. This week's topic, causes that are not generally popular yet. Some causes on the left
1:33.1	are generally popular, a wealth tax, Medicare for all, a green New Deal. Some causes are
1:39.9	less popular, such as abolishing ICE, abolishing prisons, abolishing the police, at least in general
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