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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Air Date: 8-11-24
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- Understanding the New Right
- JD Vance's mangled metaphor
- The best headline about RFK Jr.
- Where the anti-trans movement has taken us
- What Star War controversies through the years can teach us
REFERENCES:
Watch: J.D. Vance Makes an Unfortunate Couch Joke at Nevada Rally
This Is Why J.D. Vance Hates "Childless Cat Ladies"
How JD Vance Thinks About Power
JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman
Read J.D. Vance's Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader's New Book
RFK Jr is an always sunny in Philadelphia character
The Insidious Scrutiny of Female Athletes' Bodies
The misleading controversy over an Olympic women's boxing match, briefly explained
The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women's Sports
This Olympics Moment Shows Where Anti-Trans Calls to "Protect Women" Have Brought Us
Every Star Wars Backlash I've Ever Seen Has Really Been About The Same Thing
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| 0:00.0 | The Democratic Party is listening to what voters are saying. |
| 0:05.0 | Whereas the Republican Party is selling, |
| 0:08.0 | sit down shut up, this is what we're doing. |
| 0:11.0 | We don't care what you think you want. |
| 0:14.0 | And this is why fish don't exist. |
| 0:16.0 | I mean, this is like the core of, there's a book we've talked about a long time ago, |
| 0:20.0 | called Fish don't exist. |
| 0:22.0 | And it's all about how humans put animals into categories that actually |
| 0:26.9 | don't work. Turns out, doesn't actually fit that nicely and neatly. |
| 0:31.2 | My brother hated the E-walarks. They're stupid. They're little stuffed animals. This is in |
| 0:36.9 | Star Wars. I grew up with Ewarks and loved them. Like why not? They're fun and |
| 0:41.4 | cute. And it turns out, the generation younger than me, turns |
| 0:46.8 | out they love Jar Jar-T-Binks. That would have my mind. I never would have imagined. Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast. This is a |
| 0:56.5 | sample of this week's bonus episode. The full version is only available to |
| 1:00.8 | our members. These episodes are comprised of the whole production |
| 1:03.7 | crew getting together for a roundtable discussion |
| 1:06.2 | on topics we find interesting. |
| 1:07.8 | So here's a few minutes for free, |
| 1:09.6 | so you can know what all the fuss is about. Well, as a lover of analogies, I have an issue to take with J.D. Vance because he's made a terrible mixed metaphor analogy that I want to take him to task for. |
| 1:27.1 | This is the actual forward to the book written by the Project 2025 guy. |
| 1:34.4 | And this is like his crescendo of his introduction. |
| 1:38.9 | He uses an analogy of a well-maintained garden in a patch of sunlight and he talks about how you know just like any any place like it's such a nice place it's growing lots of nice things but it's also attractive for things you don't want. So a well-meaning |
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