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Luck, Chance and 2024

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Media And Politics, Society & Culture, Fight For Democracy., American Politics, White Supremacy In Politics, Multiracial Democracy, Social Justice Podcast, Wajahat Ali, Danielle Moodie, Politics, U.s. Politics Podcast, Racial Justice, Democracy Podcast, Political Commentary, Defending Democracy, Political Podcast, News, Progressive Politics Podcast, Government

4.8703 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Danielle and Wajahat speak with social welfare professor and author Mark Robert Rank about his latest book: Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us.

We discuss why luck matters when discussing public policy and our views on the American identity. Waj and Danielle also unpack the latest with Israel and Gaza and how it's effecting the 2024 election! This and more on the next democracyish.


Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali

 

Executive Producer: Adell Coleman

 

Senior Producer: Quinton Hill

 

Distributor: DCP Entertainment



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0:00.0

Welcome to Democracy-ish.

0:12.2

I'm Danielle Moody.

0:13.4

And I'm Ojahaliy.

0:15.1

And Woj, well, you know, it's another week in America where we text each other nonstop and say,

0:22.0

should we pack now or not?

0:25.5

What of the mountain of shit that we've been ingesting all week do you want to dig into?

0:32.8

Okay, let's spin the wheel.

0:34.9

The wheel here goes round and round.

0:37.9

And oh, yeah, the guy who's nearly tied with President Biden to be the next president, Donald Trump, is on trial, farting his way to keep himself awake while Stormy Daniels, his former mistress, is testifying in lure a detail to their sexual affair, after which he

0:56.6

allegedly paid her in hush money during the 2016 campaign to silence her, which is, by the way,

1:04.1

illegal.

1:05.7

And he might go to jail for it, but of course, it's Donald Trump, so he'll fail up.

1:10.3

But we're not talking

1:11.1

about that right now. We're talking about college protesters who are overwhelmingly peaceful,

1:15.7

but apparently Joe Biden yesterday does a speech on anti-Semitism to mark the day in the Holocaust

1:25.1

memory. And he says that Hamas is motivated by, quote, ancient

1:30.1

desires to eliminate Jews, which is interesting because Hamas was created in 1987, so I don't

1:36.1

know about these ancient desires. And while that's happening, Chip Roy, Republican brings back the

1:41.1

anti-Sheria panic from 2014 and decides to now label all Muslims as potential

1:47.1

threats. That was awesome. No one talks about it. And oh yeah, as this is happening, Hamas,

1:53.0

or I should say Hamas, agreed to a ceasefire deal, which Antony Blinken said was extraordinarily

1:59.4

generous last week.

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