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The Gist

Don't Mind Us, We're Just Collapsing

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Dow hitting 20,000 might sounds like great news to you, but to anthropologist Arthur Demarest, it's an ominous echo of what he's seen befall the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Inca: a spectacular apogee followed by collapse. Demarest studies the decline of civilizations. He says his research has shown that societies that avoid total disintegration undergo some other kind of major political or economic crisis. For the Spiel, good news. We've fixed the Oscars.  Today's sponsor: Policy Genius. Shop and compare all the top-rated life insurance companies in one place. Go to PolicyGenius.com today to save over 70 percent off other prices for life insurance. 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.

0:04.0

T-Wend's Day, January 25, 2017, from Slate It's the GIST I might pass.

0:13.2

Now think about the ill will that Trump has engendered.

0:16.4

What if any other president, not a Democrat, even a Republican, some other Republican

0:21.9

Iran, Rand Paul, Jab Bush?

0:24.3

What if he were president and he said,

0:26.3

the federal government is seriously considering using its resources to address the issue of

0:31.3

murder and Chicago?

0:33.2

Wouldn't that be treated, especially by Chicagoans as welcome?

0:37.1

Okay, we've got a huge problem and the federal government has huge resources.

0:41.8

But Trump pops off about Chicago gun crime in a tweet that exactly coincides in time and

0:48.4

talking points with an a rightly factor segment.

0:52.1

And Chicago is rightly pretty worried.

0:55.0

What is this guy talking about and occupying forests, the military in the street?

1:00.0

Trump is such a blustery and petuous neophyte.

1:03.1

You simply cannot assume he has any idea what he's talking about.

1:07.4

You can't assume that his words have meaning.

1:10.2

Remember when George W. Bush swayed the weak-minded with the construction?

1:15.8

I say what I mean and I mean what I say.

1:19.3

Yeah, I long for that.

1:22.4

So for the last couple days we've been hitting Trump and Sean Spicer on outrageous claims

1:26.9

that may or may not become actual law.

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