Lies vs. BS

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The U.S. has a racial wealth gap problem. By one estimate, at current levels of wealth growth it would take 228 years for the average black family to catch up with levels of wealth among white families. Thomas Shapiro explains some of the surprising reasons parity remains so elusive in his book, Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future. In the Spiel, there's a reason why the wise people over at Lawfare say this administration is malevolence tempered by incompetence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.4	It's Monday, June 19, 2017, from slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska for Two Straight Nights,
0:13.6	protesters in Central Park interrupted productions of Julius Caesar,
0:19.4	the Hill described the Friday disruption as, protesters interrupt Trump parody play.
0:26.4	Trump parody play, aka Julius Caesar, you know, Shakespeare's words reverberate through the
0:31.5	ages. Still, I don't even think Shakespeare could have anticipated Donald Trump. Well, actually maybe.
0:38.5	Cry, woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay.
0:42.6	American carnage. But it wasn't Richard the second source of most of that, just heard
0:47.6	quote right there that was interrupted. It was Caesar to a cascade of booze.
0:54.5	One pro Trump activist interrupted the production. And as soon as she was taken off stage,
0:59.2	her compatriots screamed at a New York audience who came to watch Julius Caesar,
1:04.2	because he felt what they needed was a history less than about a fascist.
1:07.3	You are all Nazis like Joseph Gerbals. This is Gerbals. You are all Gerbals.
1:13.7	Some people on the internet thought he was saying,
1:15.5	Gerbals would be proud. And you know what they would. Gerbals would be proud.
1:19.6	The question is, is it I am back? Let's see. Gerbals would be proud.
1:25.3	Gerbals would be proud. No, no, it doesn't even work on that level. It didn't work on too many
1:30.8	levels exactly, except for getting some hazzaz from one extreme of American politics.
1:37.1	It's actually turned out to be a pretty good test to see which conservatives have principles on
1:42.2	which don't. Ben Shapiro, principled conservative, who has been silenced by the hecklers veto,
1:48.0	had this to say. Even if the left stopped shutting down my speeches or
1:52.0	and speeches or my low speeches or any of the rest of these, presumably these alt-right protesters
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