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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

adrienne maree brown + F the Filibuster

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

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4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

What does cancel culture have to do with defunding the police? How do we liberate our attention? Can better orgasms improve public policy? Hari and Kamau get answers—and Valentine's Day advice—from pleasure activist and abolitionist adrienne maree brown, author of We Will Not Cancel Us. Plus: Adam Jentleson lays out the Jim Crow roots of the filibuster and gives a Senate insider's view on why even Joe Manchin might be convinced to abandon it. His new book is Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.

Find our guests:
Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson)
adrienne maree brown (@adriennemaree) http://adriennemareebrown.net

Resources mentioned in the show:
We Stand With Farmers https://farmersprotest.carrd.co
Movement for Black Lives https://m4bl.org
The Frontline: #postcardstobiden https://demand.thefrontline.org
Generation Five http://www.generationfive.org

Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/

Find the show:
Twitter (@PoliticReActive)
Facebook (@politicallyreactive)
Instagram (@politicallyreactive)

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0:00.0

is clear you had woke ready to go and you're like yeah woke was ready to go and

0:03.6

then i felt nausea coming up on the press of woke and you just pull yourself back

0:07.8

and be directed from topic studios and warner media podcast network this is

0:13.2

politically reactive i'm Debbie Camelpe and i'm harry kundabolu hey did you

0:17.9

know that in jesus h christ the h stands for harry kundabolu once again we're

0:24.3

two friends and stand up comics and dads trying to make sense of american

0:28.0

politics because uh... that's our job on the show not because we know that we

0:33.1

can make sense of it because we won't but we have to because we're

0:36.6

contractually obligated to try hit that subscribe button give us a good

0:40.3

review yeah and we love talking to people who can help us understand why

0:44.0

american politics the way it is and what we can do about it

0:47.6

adam gentles and knows one of our most important democratic institutions the

0:51.4

u.s senate from the inside work for democratic majority leader

0:55.8

harry read for six years and now he's out with a new book called kill switch the

1:00.7

rise of the modern senate and the crippling of american democracy he digs into

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the history of the filibuster like a lot of things this country he goes back to

1:09.2

southern politicians defending slavery and white supremacy

1:12.8

surprise only civil rights bills were forced to clear this higher threshold

1:19.1

uh... and that is what became the filibuster that we know today in this particular

1:23.2

case we can't blame the founding fathers for the filibuster because they

1:26.4

actually wanted a simple majority in the senate to pass legislation that

1:30.5

even includes out there hamilton

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