Cringing Oneself Out Of The Presidency

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump lies a lot, and his acolytes construct permission structures to excuse those lies. On the other hand, Joe Biden put forward a cringe-worthy performance, and his VP engaged in some BET Awards cringiness of her own. Voters are more likely to punish cringe. Plus, Phil Elwood put together PR and public policy campaigns for dictators and rogue states. It paid ok, but also, it almost destroyed him, as he chronicles in his new book, All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:10.0	Tom Sawyer faked his own death to hear townfolk mourn and eulogize him.
0:14.0	I don't even know where to get any townfolk.
0:17.0	All Joe Biden had to do was to gum up a debate quite badly.
0:21.0	Man, are people nice to you after you totally
0:24.5	totally screw up your biggest moment in an election that you like into the
0:28.3	preservation of democracy? Want to hear a bunch of people just being nice to Joe Biden for no discernible reason?
0:35.5	Here's a mashup of Van Jones, Joe Scarborough, and Anna Navarro.
0:39.1	I love Joe Biden. I love that guy. That's a good man. He loves his country.
0:45.6	I think I should start by saying without any apologies that I love Joe Biden and Jill.
0:56.2	Look, I've known Joe Biden and I love Joe Biden.
0:59.0	And I've known Joe Biden for over 20 years.
1:01.4	So nice! Former Congressman Tim Ryan writes, I love America, I love our
1:06.6	party. I love Joe Biden. A. And Andrew Yang said, what's Joe Biden's superpower?
1:14.7	That he's a good guy who will do the right thing for his country?
1:18.5	Well, thank you, fantastic, Van Tim and Andy.
1:23.4	Now, of course, they each added a different version of, well,
1:27.6	to quote Ryan, the Democratic nominee in 2024
1:30.8	should be Kamala Harris, to quote Yang Yang do the right thing for his country in this
1:35.3	case that stepping aside and letting the DNC choose another nominee well forget
1:40.0	those guys they're just politicians. How about writers?
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