Good Trouble
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Josie Duffy Rice discuss impeachment fatigue, the twin canaries of anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism, and the incredible John Lewis.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and Josie revisit a conundrum about how to extricate oneself from (or apologize for) a difficult situation.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 2nd, 2020. |
| 0:16.0 | Actually wrote January 2nd, 2019 in my notes. |
| 0:18.3 | It's 2020. Happy New Decade. |
| 0:20.2 | Yep. |
| 0:20.6 | Gab Fest listeners, The Good Trouble Edition. |
| 0:25.0 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm so happy to be back in another decade with my dear Emily |
| 0:32.8 | Baslon of Yale University Law School in the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Happy New Year. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, hello. Happy New Year. And John Dickerson, of course, is making New Year's Day a five-day |
| 0:42.7 | celebration. He's probably still sleeping off his epic bender from New Year's Eve. In any case, |
| 0:50.4 | he is not here. I'm sure John is not doing that. Just FYI. John is, I'm sure, |
| 0:54.4 | doing something familial and lovely. But instead, happy New Year to Josie Duffy Rice, |
| 0:59.2 | president of the appeal, joining us from Atlanta. Hello, Josie. Hi. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:04.2 | On today's Gab Fest, will the Senate impeachment trial ever happen than the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the U.S. |
| 1:13.2 | and the rising tide of weird phylo-Semitism in Brett Stevens' columns. |
| 1:18.9 | And then the extraordinary life of John Lewis, the civil rights icon, who announced this week that he is getting treated for late stage pancreatic |
| 1:28.5 | cancer. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. Emily, the president was impeached two weeks ago, |
| 1:36.4 | or was he? That was a question. That's all you got for me. That was a question. |
| 1:45.2 | Was he actually impeached? |
| 1:47.9 | I think he was impeached. |
| 1:49.5 | There is a kind of minority law professor viewpoint expressed by Noah Feldman in the Bloomberg opinion column, arguing that you don't get impeached until the House actually sends the articles over to |
| 2:02.9 | the Senate. I don't really think this is like going to catch on. I do not totally understand |
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