A Democracy, If You Can Keep It

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

Politics, Government, News

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The first night of the DNC included great speeches from Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama and some not-so-great speeches from Republicans. Trump repeats his 2016 claim that he will only lose if the election is rigged. At an event honoring Susan B. Anthony, Trump suggests the election might have to be held again if universal mail-in-voting is implemented. Schools across the country are sending kids back home after COVID-19 outbreaks. Jared Kushner sees 170,000 dead Americans as a success. At a rally on Monday, Trump admitted his decision to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was, “for the evangelicals”. Tamara Toles O’Laughlin joins to talk about 350.org’s work in the lead up to November’s election. Jackson White discusses his app Politiscope. Guest: Jackson White & Tamara Toles O'Laughlin Co-Host: Yasmin Khan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, welcome back to another episode here at the Damage Report still under lockdown following
0:10.0	the first day of the DNC, which was an event sort of we're going to get into it.
0:15.9	Who's we? It's me, but also a new face for you on today. Yes, Manelia Khan, political commentator
0:22.7	and video blogger joins us for the first time. Yes, when has gone.
0:26.3	Going really, really good. How are you? I'm good and I'm glad to have you here. I'm excited to
0:31.6	talk the DNC with you. We're going to get into that. We're going to talk about whether there's
0:36.8	going to be an election and what it's going to look like, the coronavirus and all of that.
0:42.0	What about you? How's the political week going for you? Thank you. A lot of the same, a lot of
0:47.1	distress and then finding hope somewhere and then just continuing on with life.
0:53.6	From now on. So I gave you a little bit of an intro there, but I know some people might be
0:58.4	familiar with you from your appearances on the common room on a TYT's Twitch channel.
1:02.9	But for those who might be seeing you for the first time, tell us a little bit about your work.
1:06.5	I am a video blogger. I make videos that kind of explain really complex things that you may have
1:13.4	seen in the news, but you're not really sure how it all fits into your real life, how it affects
1:18.6	American politics, how it affects international politics. Just kind of giving you the history of
1:23.9	how we got to where we are today and what it means going forward. And simply in a way that's
1:29.6	easy to understand. It's a little bit palatable. Exactly. And I think I mentioned on the comment,
1:34.8	one of the things that's really impressive about your work is that you try to broach
1:39.5	topics that that tend towards people having very incendiary views on, like people like to fight
1:45.7	it out on them. But you try to explain things in a level headed way, and I respect that. These
1:51.8	are complicated topics that you jump into. Yeah, I try to. That's all you can do. I don't even try.
1:59.9	So also we're going to be talking about one of those topics later on in the show when we talk about
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