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The Gist

American Carnage? It's Real

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Rep. Ilhan Omar and Israel. In the interview, the Guardian's Chris McGreal covered the deadly toll opiates take on poor American communities "long before it became fashionable because of Trump." He speaks to Purdue Pharma's zealous campaign to push OxyContin ("a chemical cousin of heroin", in the words of the New Yorker) onto doctors and patients—and the federal government's failure to stop it. McGreal is the author of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts.  In the Spiel, another Lobstar of the Antentwig. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.6

The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit than

0:32.6

May. Let's just say it may.

0:38.6

Friday, March 8th, 2019, from Slate of the Gestine, Mike Pesca, the House of Representatives

0:43.7

passed a resolution saying bad people are mean and also mean people are bad. Can we now

0:48.7

go back to being the bad of mean people we always have been? Though the words and the

0:53.5

non-binding statement were anitined and pointless, the wending bizarre set of circumstances

0:58.8

that led up to them were foolish and exasperating.

1:02.1

Ilan Omar, freshman representative, phrased her criticism of Israel supporters in a way

1:08.6

that is a common trope of anti-Semites. This on the heels of a tweet that criticized

1:14.5

Israel supporters using a different trope that connotes anti-Semitism. And that came after

1:20.7

an old tweet was on earth where Omar criticized Israel using a trope that would be familiar

1:27.0

to anti-Semites. What have we learned?

1:30.4

Anti-Semitism has a lot of tropes because there's a lot of anti-Semitism. The world has been

1:35.7

practicing it for thousands of years. But if I were to really tell you what I think,

1:40.2

from what I can sense, the audience has been clamoring for this. Mike, what do you think?

1:45.1

Here's what I think. Oh god, you asked.

1:47.6

I think mostly what's going on is that Ilan Omar doesn't know how to code switch in

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