BONUS: How Parties Rig the System
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Republicans are tinkering with state election laws across the country, most notably in Georgia. Meanwhile, Democrats passed HR 1 in the House, which tinkers with election laws at a national level. Let's explore just exactly what they're up to.
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| 0:00.0 | Every week on the political orphanage there's a main feat episode and there's also a bonus episode |
| 0:06.1 | available exclusively to Patreon members who fund the program. This last week several of those elite orphans on Patreon reached out to me and asked me this last family, mistresses, and mistresses. |
| 0:24.0 | So I'm going to let you in on one of the bonus episodes at their request. |
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| 0:41.8 | waiting for you to binge. Enjoy. I've always been really curious about bad popes. |
| 1:05.0 | For example, this one pontiff, John the 12th, seems like a particularly corrupt, nasty pope, even by bad Pope standards which are septic tanklow. |
| 1:16.0 | He fornicated with his father's mistress, which is against poping rules, and seriously risks being invited on Jerry Springer. |
| 1:25.4 | He had an affair with his niece and a widow and I'm guessing probably several other |
| 1:29.9 | ladies we don't know about. |
| 1:30.9 | He once blinded and killed his father confessor, presumably, so the |
| 1:35.8 | priest wouldn't reveal any of John's dark sins to the public and get him invited on Jerry Springer. |
| 1:42.1 | Unless you think, okay, he sounds like a bad guy. |
| 1:47.4 | He had his personal feelings, but he might have been a good Pope. |
| 1:51.0 | May the mass run on time, higher quality rosaries, increased the production of Saints, that sort of thing. |
| 1:57.0 | Nope, not good for the institution at all. |
| 1:59.3 | He once appointed a 10-year-old as a Bishop Now I'm sure the kid was very cute in his bishop outfit, but that was only |
| 2:07.1 | because John was selling bishoprics to wealthy families. There are a lot of bad popes. You can read about them. Or you can just watch a medieval episode of Jerry Springer. |
| 2:17.0 | What I've always wondered about them is, did they believe any of it? |
| 2:24.8 | If these guys were so corrupt, so openly disdainful of the integrity of the church and so |
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