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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest from May 6th, 2021, the Martyrdom Liz Cheney edition.
0:14.0	I'm David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C.
0:19.0	When I look out my window, I see Liz Cheney being dragged down the street. Oh, no, she's not. I didn't see that. I am joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University of Law School from New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hello. And John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes, who is right now John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation because he's doing a season-long stint hosting Face the Nation. Hello, John. That's right. Hello, David. So watch Face the Nation again, now that John's back on it. Yeah, it's been two weeks, and I can't, it's, it's, it's so strange to think that I did that show for two and a half years.
0:55.2	I don't know.
0:55.8	It's a very, it's a weird, it's, it's, it's, um, it, uh, it both feels trademark eloquence
1:03.5	from John Dickerson.
1:04.5	Familiar and also, I guess because it's in a new studio.
1:07.8	Anyway, um, that was, that wasn't terribly eloquent, but there we go.
1:14.2	Ratings are definitely up, though.
1:16.7	With the coming defenestration of Liz Cheney, the transformation of the Republican Party
1:22.5	into a delusional anti-democratic Trumpist conspiracy is complete.
1:27.0	That will be our first topic. Our second topic,
1:29.2	the Facebook Supreme Court has spoken, and Donald Trump still cannot be on that social platform.
1:34.9	What a lucky duck. I wish I couldn't be on Facebook. That would be great.
1:38.2	You can't. You can take yourself off. Good grief. That's true. It was a joke, Emily.
1:43.9	No, I'm too literal for a joke like that. I can't handle it. Go ahead. Then America's at Meat Wars. Are we headed for a meatless world, a meatless country, or will it be just another culture war that we have to fight? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. Oh, whoof. It was such a funny story.
2:03.3	You saw that former Justice Breyer totally botched his stint guest toasting Jeopardy this week.
2:09.1	He was supposed to do it for a week and they pulled him after just one day because he just
2:13.1	failed to understand that on Jeopardy, he gives the answers and the contestants ask the questions.
2:19.5	He kept trying to turn the answers on the board into questions, like it was the Supreme Court
2:24.5	hearing. It was crazy. Breyer says that after a lifetime of asking questions from the bench,
2:29.0	he was perplexed by the Jeopardy format and that he hopes to be a judge on American Idol instead.
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