Deregulation Nation

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Americans are skeptical of regulation, no matter how much they hate hair in their hot dogs. Why are Republicans winning this argument? Jacob Hacker is director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and author of the new book American Amnesia. For the Spiel, an ethics scandal hits South Dakota. Yes, South Dakota! Today's sponsor: Dunkin' Donuts. Upgrade your day with DD Perks. Earn a free Dunkin' Donuts beverage when you enroll by using promo code DDPODCAST, and speed past the line in-store with on-the-go ordering. Download the Dunkin' app and enroll today. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.9	It's Thursday, January 26, 2017 from Slated to the Gisdai, Mike Pesca.
0:13.1	Covering the first few days of the Trump administration has been like calling the Kentucky Derby
0:18.1	if none of the horses wore silks.
0:20.8	No numbers, no colors, just a bunch of stuff happening,
0:25.1	and all the jockeys were seven eighths versions of Mike Pence.
0:28.4	Yesterday was this revelation that Trump's voter fraud idea came from, well,
0:34.6	it came from what we call motivated reasoning, but it also came from a golfer.
0:40.0	Bernard Langer said that he was online to vote and got kicked off,
0:44.9	guys German, but then some people didn't look American,
0:47.9	were allowed to vote crazy, brings up another question.
0:51.1	No, what if all of Trump's beliefs came from golfers?
0:55.7	Jaina is killing us on trade deals.
0:59.5	Jumbo Asaki told me personally he is from the region.
1:05.5	Muslims on rooftops don't believe me.
1:09.9	Davis love the third.
1:12.4	He said it and he told Ernie L's don't call Ernie L's a liar.
1:19.0	That 400 pound guy on his bed hacking, not the Russians, Craig Stadler.
1:26.5	I'm going to give myself some golf clubs for some golf humor.
1:30.3	There you go.
1:31.3	And there on ABC was Trump's first interview and anchor David Mure trying to normalize the guy, right?
1:39.1	He tries to set him up against that White House background.
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