ITT Sound Off: Political Violence

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio talk about the targeted attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, and how responses from some Republicans are normalizing this kind of political violence. They also get into the latest with voter intimidation and suppression efforts across the country leading up to the midterms, and what Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter means for the future of our democracy.

ITT Staff Picks:

“The political violence in our nation’s history is organized and purposeful. It is normalized by rhetoric that justifies it, and often encourages it,” writes Jeremi Suri on the attack on Paul Pelosi, in this piece for Time Magazine.
Philip Bump compares the different voting processes in Brazil and the United States, in this analysis of Brazil's electronic vote-counting system following their presidential runoff election, for The Washington Post.
“Most of what we know about Musk is what he freely gives on Twitter every day. That means Elon Musk spent $44 billion dollars on the very thing that is revealing how flawed he is,” writes Ali Breland in this piece for Mother Jones.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

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0:34.4	From futuro media and PRX, everyone, it's in the thick.
0:38.2	I'm Maria Inohosa.
0:40.2	Yo, and I'm Moliore Caloarela, and this is ITT Sound off.
0:44.7	And yeah, OK.
0:47.1	Trying to laugh.
0:47.8	Yep, always, miles.
0:49.6	But seriously, our first topic sucks.
0:53.0	We want to talk about the violent attack on how Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, last
0:58.3	Friday, Paul Pelosi was attacked by an intruder with a hammer and zip ties.
1:03.5	The suspect David DePap had posted a variety of conspiracy theories online posts about
1:08.8	voter fraud, interestingly, in the aftermath of the attack, Republicans were amplifying
1:14.1	lies and misinformation about the attack.
1:17.8	And this is where it gets really ugly.
1:20.0	Some Republican candidates for office, like Kerry Lake, she's running for governor in
1:24.2	Arizona.
1:25.2	And in Virginia, the Republican governor Glenn Youngkin, they actually made fun of the attack
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