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Pod Save the People

Jessica Pishko On Unchecked Power

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Bodies of the poor leased for cash without family consent, independent grocery stores suffer under inflation, and a 1833 meteor shower falls on America's Deep South. DeRay interviews Jessica Pishko about her new book THE HIGHEST LAW IN THE LAND: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Dorei. We're going to pause the people. In this episode it's me,

0:06.4

Cynthia aren't talking about them. It was so much going on this last week,

0:09.7

y'all with her doctor and suggest this. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Pod Save People.

0:15.0

Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People.

0:20.0

I am Diara Balanger. You can find me on Instagram at Diara Balanger.

0:24.6

My name is Miles E Johnson. You can find me on

0:26.9

Instagram at Pharaoh rapture.

0:30.1

And this is DeRay at D Drey on the Twitter.

0:35.0

There's so much going on. There's so much commentary. There's so much response to the commentary and then apologies, maybe not apologies I think with Donald Trump he just doubles down

0:47.4

but De Ray what were you saying about Trump's comments he's still I mean we were talking about this right before the podcast started how he still

0:55.0

says illegal aliens which is just so mind-blowing to me that I guess it shouldn't be nothing

1:00.8

should be a shocker with this man. But I guess what is a shock is that people use

1:06.2

this term. Miles is seeing it a lot on television commercials there.

1:13.0

So but can you drink can you just dig into the I'm not exactly sure what what he said.

1:19.0

Yeah, I'm fascinated by it because what he what he said this weekend was quote, they're taking your jobs every job produced in this country over the last two years has gone to legal aliens every job.

1:37.0

And it's like, okay, well, not only as a matter of fact is that just not true and in no world is that true.

1:46.3

But it is really interesting the way that he mobilizes like the core tenets of white supremacy to scare people and I was

1:57.2

talking to a close friend over the weekend who is trying to get somebody who is left in black to get off the fence of Accomla.

2:08.9

And they were, they had started to repeat this idea that well it wasn't all it wasn't all immigrants but

2:15.9

like people are taking jobs and from black people and you're like and in real time I

2:20.6

could see how the extreme comments of Trump normalized this sense of like theft in the

2:29.2

workplace and da da da da da da da da da and it is just sort of wild to see it.

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