ITT Sound Off: Debates of My Childhood
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the final ITT Sound Off of the year, Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King to talk about the impeachment of President Trump as well as Thursday's Democratic Debate in Los Angeles. They discuss male whiteness on the debate stage and how the candidates addressed LGBTQ rights, immigration and campaign finance.
ITT Staff Picks
- The Los Angeles Times gives five takeaways from the December debate
- Julio was interviewed for this Mother Jones piece about Democratic candidates overlooking Latinx voters
- Why Pelosi hasn't sent Trump impeachment articles to the Senate, via Vox
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:25.0 | Hey welcome to In The Thick, I'm Julio Ricalo-Luella. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm Jamila King, and this is I T sound off. Yep, it's our final I T sound off of 2019 and I wonder what we're going to talk about, oh yeah, Jamila, we're going to talk about impeachment, and then Thursday night's Democratic debate. |
| 0:50.0 | For all you I T.T. listeners out there, it does mean that we won't be covering the news over the next few weeks until we're back in the new year. |
| 0:56.4 | But don't worry, guys. We have some fresh dope I.T shows for all of you each Tuesday and Friday until the new year. |
| 1:08.0 | So make sure you check out your podcast feed. |
| 1:11.2 | So let's just dive into the first topic. |
| 1:14.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:15.0 | Topic of the hour. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, before we talk about the debate, I think there was a major story this week, and that's the impeachment. |
| 1:26.8 | So it's official on Wednesday. |
| 1:29.0 | The House of Representatives voted by a majority, all Democrats, to impeach President Donald Trump. |
| 1:35.7 | They passed both articles, obstruction of Congress was article, one of the articles, |
| 1:40.3 | abuse of power was the other one. So President Donald Trump is now the third |
| 1:44.8 | president in the history of the United States to be impeached. Let's just say |
| 1:50.0 | Republicans were not really happy about this. For example, Representative Barry Loudermilk, who compared |
| 1:59.0 | Trump to Jesus. |
| 2:01.1 | The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right of the defendant to face their accuser, but not only have the Democrats prohibited Republicans and the president from questioning the so-called whistleblower, his identity has been kept secret. |
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