Democracy's Nightmare Scenario
The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following program may contain explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | ["Band Warms Up the World"] |
| 0:07.2 | It's Thursday, September 24th, 2020, from Slate, |
| 0:10.0 | it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca. |
| 0:12.1 | You did know we had a problem of creeping authoritarianism. |
| 0:16.3 | You also know that one way the authoritarianism creeps |
| 0:20.4 | is by incentivizing underlings of the most authoritarian |
| 0:23.7 | creeps to valorize anti-democratic instincts, |
| 0:26.7 | to glamourize thugishness. |
| 0:29.2 | Now I asked if you knew that, because this lady |
| 0:31.9 | from a Georgia TV ad has a related question. |
| 0:35.8 | Did you know Kelly Leppler was ranked |
| 0:37.4 | the most conservative senator in America? |
| 0:40.2 | Yep, she's more conservative than Attila the Hun. |
| 0:43.2 | Next, in this commercial, we cut to a scene |
| 0:46.0 | of the year around 450 AD. |
| 0:48.9 | A pale white guy actor is playing Attila, Attila the Hun, |
| 0:52.9 | even though Huns were of Central Asian, Turkic, Mongolic, |
| 0:56.6 | and Yurgic stock. |
| 0:58.7 | The head hun says these words to a note taker. |
| 1:04.7 | Fight China. |
| 1:06.2 | Got it. |
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