How the Post Office Cured "Going Postal"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On The Gist, a postcard with Devin Leonard on the origins of the phrase "going postal." Leonard's new book is Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service. Plus, Stephen Teret on smart guns. For the Spiel, Hillary Clinton's cinch of a clinched nomination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.1	It's Tuesday June 7th, 2016 from Slate, it's the GIST on Mike Pasca.
0:46.5	We have two presumptive nominees and between them one confirmed racist.
0:51.0	Okay, maybe not racist.
0:53.4	You can't call anyone a racist.
0:55.0	It's so strong, it's so harsh to call Donald Trump a racist just because he thinks a judge
1:00.5	should be disqualified because of his ethnicity, because of the judge's parents' country of
1:05.9	origin.
1:06.9	Donald Trump's mother, country of origin, by the way, is Scotland.
1:09.5	I'll build a wall, maybe a lock, and the Scots will pay for it.
1:15.0	But you can say what you want.
1:16.5	This is America and Donald Trump is the nominee of a major party.
1:20.4	He appeals to the aspirations of the downtrodden, those lied to about their chances for advancement,
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