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552 - The Nephew Gap (8/23/21)

Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We start off discussing Jeopardy!, Tesla Bots, and how all these conservative radio hosts keep dying of COVID. Then we talk about Tony Blair crying about Afghanistan and step inside Tom Friedman’s mind palace to explore the Taliban’s strategic cousin and nephew reserves.

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I

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I feel comfortable.

0:32.0

I feel comfortable.

0:34.0

Um, Matt, what was that thing?

0:36.0

We were talking the other day and like you were talking about how, um,

0:39.0

just for like all the institutions that govern American life, like the,

0:43.0

sort of like the incentive structure has gotten so not just short term,

0:47.0

but so like ludicrously skewed that they all seem like incapable of making

0:51.0

even the most simple decisions to like further the existence of themselves

0:55.0

as institutions.

0:56.0

Yeah, and you're saying that with both parties right now,

0:59.0

because the Democrats are not going to pass the voting reform bill that they need to

1:06.0

to prevent just getting gerrymandered out of power for the next 20 years.

1:10.0

Uh, and Republicans have decided that in order to keep their jobs in the Republican party,

1:16.0

they're okay with just letting vast swaths of their actual voting based

1:21.0

die of COVID.

1:23.0

Not just let them die of COVID, but like actively increasing to do it.

1:26.0

They like do it, have, have each other's parts in a closed room for freedom.

1:30.0

Do it.

1:31.0

I mean, yeah, like obviously that's true.

1:32.0

And I want to talk about the political ramifications in a second,

1:35.0

certainly in light of the FDA finally approving this vaccine,

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