Banana Republicans – plus special guest Emily Bazelon

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What does the rise of President Joe mean for Britain and our shapeshifting creep of a PM? If Donald Trump can’t win in America’s democracy, would he really destroy it? And why are politicians so bad at Twitter? We’re thrilled to welcome special guest Emily Bazelon from the podcast that inspired us, the Slate Political Gabfest, to dissect the monsters produced by Trump’s electoral death throes. “I just can’t believe that people are prepared to mess around with the most important thing about a country – that democracy continues” – Emily Bazelon “If we’ve got a Republican Party that thinks delegitimising an entire election is worth doing, that’s incredibly dangerous” – Emily Bazelon “What is Dominic Saab scared of? He’s scared of a nutcase with a smartphone” – Alex Andreou ““We lost the election and now we’re going to blame the person who RAN the election?” – Emily Bazelon “It’s always progressives who are urged to reach out, never the other way around” – Alex Andreou Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Nina Schick and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Back OH GOD, WHAT NOW? and help us make political life more bearable. Get every new episode a whole day early, plus new and classic merchandise when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. For the moment we’re still at remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to O-God What Now, the podcast formerly known as Romaniacs.
0:09.5	Since last week we've had some good news, the confirmation of Joe Biden's victory over
0:12.8	Donald Trump, a thinly veiled government new-turned-free school meals that's a feat in the
0:16.2	Lord to the internal market bill and the promise of a COVID-19 vaccine in the near future.
0:21.0	It's all very confusing for us but don't worry, it'll be plenty of bad stuff to talk
0:24.7	about as well.
0:25.7	I'm Dorian Lidsky, let's meet the panel.
0:28.4	Alex Andreo is a writer, actor and problematic gator-bout.
0:31.2	Hello Alex.
0:32.2	Hello.
0:33.2	Which of these cheering stories has made you happy this week?
0:37.0	Well, on the principle that everything except death is fixable, it has to be those encouraging
0:44.4	vaccine news.
0:46.3	Although the promise of normality did send me into a serious calculation of when do I need
0:52.7	to start dieting in order to get into anything with a non-elasticated way?
0:59.9	You've fully got locked down, Bord.
1:02.7	Yes.
1:03.7	So the massive Lord's to feed, 433 votes to 165, which is particularly delicious because
1:09.7	Brexit EPL clear forks only for the government's bill but accidentally voted against it.
1:15.1	What happens next with this bill?
1:16.9	OK, so final report stage in the Lords is scheduled to start on the 18th of November,
1:24.2	after which if the government don't back down a bit of ping pong between the two, after
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