Bleach blonde butch body - American politics goes full Jerry Springer
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
American legislators in the House are hurling personal insults at each other - meanwhile Biden and Trump have committed to debate each other on TV and Trump is using an attack ad - a riff off of a Tom Petty song- to accuse Biden of “free falling“.
What has happened to rational discourse in America?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Well, you don't want to talking about, I think your fake eyelashes are messing up. |
| 0:17.2 | No, I ain't nothing. |
| 0:17.7 | Hold on, hold on. |
| 0:19.9 | Order. |
| 0:20.8 | That's beneath even order. That on, hold on. Order, Mr. Chairman. |
| 0:21.3 | Would you order? |
| 0:23.4 | That was just a flavor of a late night House committee meeting in Congress, which ended up in a shouting match between, you've guessed it, Marjorie Taylor Green, Republican from Georgia, and Jasmine Crockett |
| 0:40.7 | from Texas. And we're going to explain exactly what was said and why it ended up getting into |
| 0:47.1 | racism, misogyny and the Jerry Springer show. Socratic dialogue, it wasn't. |
| 0:59.8 | And it's a flavour of what is to come as we talk about the presidential debates that are going to happen, but are going to play by very different rules. |
| 1:03.1 | We're going to talk about the court case of Donald Trump and some of the goings on there. |
| 1:09.5 | This is not a time for high-minded speeches. This is down |
| 1:14.2 | and dirty. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. It's John. It's Emily. And the explanation of what went on |
| 1:27.3 | in that House committee we will come to. |
| 1:30.2 | But we're going to start with the... |
| 1:32.4 | More of the same. |
| 1:33.8 | Well, it just does feel that everyone is shouting at each other. |
| 1:37.5 | It's the same flavor wise. |
| 1:38.6 | How can we avoid people shouting to each other? |
| 1:41.4 | If there is a central theme that is going to guide this episode, |
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