This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 23rd, 2020, the Invading America edition.

I'm David Plotz, a business insider.

I am in Vermont for one final, one final bucolic

green week. I am joined from Charlottesville, Virginia, sitting in for John Dickerson, Jamel Bowie.

Jamel, I went to you first, even though Emily's here, because you were just doing something

super weird with your camera and I got freaked out.

You were attacking your camera. Hello, Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist.

Hello, thank you for having me. And joining from New Haven, Connecticut, of course,

of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily.

Hello, I have one criticism, although it's really too early in the show for that, but I can't believe that you passed up the opportunity to call this show Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

That's true. I just couldn't remember it. I couldn't remember it. It is definitely the Person

Woman Man Camera TV edition, and yes, I just repeated it for bonus points.

What I wanted to know when I heard that, this, of course, is the President Trump who cannot

stop talking about this mental acuity test that he, quote, unquote, aced. And he gave the

example of person, woman, man, camera, TV is that you have to, are given five words and you have

to repeat them. Those surely were not the five words you were have to, are given five words and you have to repeat them.

Those surely were not the five words you were given.

Those are just the words, the first words that he thinks of, which are person, woman, man, camera, TV, right? I just wish that he was giving equal thought and attention to, like, the coronavirus pandemic as he's giving to his mental acuity test. Oh, no, no. That's, that's going to, that's going to, the coronavirus is just going to disappear. You see, you don't got to worry about it. It's kind of banish. You don't have to remember it. Four million cases later. On today's Gab Fest, we are not going to talk about the mental acuity test. We're going to talk about the presidential invasion of Portland, Oregon, his attempt to manufacture civil war, civil disturbance in order to

win the election. Then should Democrats scrap the filibuster if they win the White House and the Senate

and the House? And then the father of the vicious dehumanizing partisan politics of today

was arguably Newt Gingrich. We will talk to Julian

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