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All Eyes on Ilhan Omar, MAGA Sword Attack, Venezuela Blackouts & Trump's Banned Tweet

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie talk about the incessant right-wing attacks against Ilhan Omar––including Trump's latest incitement of violence against her--the MAGA sword attack in San Francisco that got overshadowed first by a mistake SF Chronicle headline and later by right-wing media spin. The discussion then moves to Trump's tweet getting pulled for using copyrighted Hans Zimmer music from Batman The Dark Knight Rises, and the ongoing blackouts in Venezuela. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

0:36.0

This is Robbie Martin. Welcome back Robbie Martin. Welcome back everybody.

0:40.3

Welcome to hell. Damn, it seems like every month just the world keeps getting more intense.

0:46.3

I just keep coming to a head, Robbie. It's pretty overwhelming the state of the world today, isn't it?

0:53.3

Yeah, it really is.

0:57.5

You know, the makers of Grand Theft Auto said that they wouldn't even know what to do now in this

1:02.1

era to sort of capture the essence of it. They're mostly talking about Trump. You know,

1:08.9

they're taking the cop out that they couldn't,

1:11.1

they didn't know how to satire Trump or whatever. But in a way, I was trying to picture

1:15.3

what a Grand Theft Auto game would look like to satire this era. And I agree with them only in the

1:22.6

sense that it would be very hard to satire the actual era we're living in now and to make it more

1:29.1

ridiculous than like what's actually happening like it is it is really truth is stranger than fiction

1:34.7

like right now it still feels that way still feels like it's getting weirder and weirder every day

1:40.8

well like i remember i was seeing joe rogan's stand-up comedy once and he was saying you know people

1:46.1

say to comedians oh must be just you know incredibly easy to satirize trump and to make jokes about

1:52.5

the era that we're living in and he's like no i mean he's like trump is a kaleidoscope he's never even

1:57.7

just a stationary thing it's like it's always changing.

2:01.1

The rhetoric is always like one step ahead of everyone.

2:04.5

And so it is really difficult to encapsulate in a joke or any sort of comedy.

2:09.4

I mean, look how fucking pathetic Saturday Night Live is in a daily show.

2:14.6

It's like all they can do is just the most bottom of the barrel, generic, babyish humor.

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