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Pantsuit Politics

How Do You Solve a Problem Like 2020?

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Topics Discussed: Our New Look! (01:48) Australian Wildfires (03:40) Iran & Qasem Soleimani (04:19) Manda Bay Kenya Attack (23:39) Venezuelan Politics (25:12) Compliments: Michelle Williams and Those Involved in Harvey Weinstein's Trial (27:04) The Challenges of 2020 (31:33) Outside of Politics (56:12) Thank you for being a part of our community! We couldn't do what we do without you. To become a tangible supporter of the show, please visit our Patreon page, purchase a copy of our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), or share the word about our work in your own circles. Episode Resources: Extremists attack Kenya military base, 3 Americans killed (AP) Supporters Of Venezuela's Maduro Try To Seize Control Of Legislature (NPR) All Bets Are Off as Harvey Weinstein’s Sexual Assault Trial Opens Today (The New York Times) December 2019 Issue of The Atlantic Conflict with Iran: Trump’s mistold tale of Obama and Iran (AP) US-Iran tensions: Timeline of events leading to Soleimani killing (Al-Jazeera) Qasem Soleimani: Timeline of events leading to US killing of Iranian general (Evening Standard) Iran Vowed Retaliation After a U.S. Strike Killed a Top Iranian General. Here’s a Timeline of Recent Escalations (TIME) In A Day Of Turmoil, Repercussions Of Soleimani Killing Grow More Widespread (NPR) Iranians Close Ranks Behind Leaders After U.S. Kills Popular General (The New York Times) American Foreign Policy Is Broken. Suleimani’s Killing Proves It. (The New York Times) Iran announces it is suspending its... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How do we just personally process everything that's going to be in the news this year?

0:04.0

And you said something that has stuck with me for the last three or four weeks,

0:07.9

which was that we just have to hold 2020 loosely.

0:14.4

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant Suit Politics, the home of grace-filled political

0:19.7

conversations.

0:30.0

Happy New Year, everybody. We're so happy to be back with you. We thought that we would just

0:43.2

ease into the new year, but the news has not really allowed that. So here we are.

0:47.7

Hitting the ground running, if you follow us on social media, you have no doubt seen,

0:52.2

or hopefully in your podcast feed today, notice that we got a new outfit for the new year

0:57.1

a new decade and all the things. Yes, we worked with Brave Creative to launch a completely new

1:02.9

Pant Suit Politics brand. It was time. It was time to have a new logo and a new look because

1:09.4

we are in a very different spot than we were in 2015. We are and it feels good to have everything

1:15.2

sort of aligning with where we are now. We have a brand new website. We worked with June Mango

1:20.8

on our website, which is much more searchable now than it's been in the past. We hope that you

1:24.9

love it. We hope that you're excited about all of this because we really tried to take into account

1:30.3

all of the feedback that we get from this community as we put everything together. And one of the

1:35.4

things that was really important to us as we thought about our new brand was how we try to do our

1:41.7

homework on everything. And we have lots of homework to do to get ready for this episode.

1:45.9

Yes, we are going to catch up on news from around the world, compliment the universe. We don't

1:52.0

really compliment the other side anymore. Your Pant Suit Politics because sides are so 2015.

1:58.8

I'm just saying it's so 2010s. We're in a new decade. We're not thinking binary anymore.

2:04.4

And we also wanted to spend some time in our main segment talking about

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