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Michael and Us: Tracy Flick for President

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We finally watch one of our most requested movies: the political parable ELECTION (1999), which presents a vision of American politics circa 1999 as represented by three student candidates and one faculty power-broken in a high school election. PLUS: Neera Tanden, the Golden Globes, and what happens to culture when the zeitgeist is taken away?

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0:00.0

Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloane, here is always with.

0:19.5

Look Savage, hello everyone.

0:21.2

Did you see by the way that just a couple of minutes before we started recording the news

0:24.9

dropped that Nero Tandon isn't going to get that government job?

0:28.4

Turns out after all was said and done, Twitter does matter after all.

0:32.4

I mean I'm not normally in favor of people getting fired or having opportunities lost because

0:38.2

of things they've tweeted in the past, but I am a nuanced thinker.

0:42.9

I mean I think it's very frustrating about the whole sort of meta debate that's swirled

0:48.4

around this perspective nomination is that among all the things you could criticize

0:52.8

or for, I mean she's done far worse.

0:56.6

Like this became a debate about mean tweets rather than you know union busting or some

1:01.5

of the donors that she courted as the head of one of the most important liberal think tanks

1:06.4

in America.

1:07.4

It became a meta debate sort of about all that, although I actually do have the sort

1:11.2

of further meta meta take that a lot of her tweets kind of were a problem and it's

1:15.4

not simply just a case about you know pointing out the hypocrisy of people who complained

1:19.8

about you know snake emojis or whatever now standing by this.

1:24.3

I actually do think it's worthy of condemnation that the head of something that bills itself

1:28.8

is the leading, you know, one of the leading progressive actors in on the Washington

1:32.8

scene conducts themselves that way online and I think that is worthy of criticism.

1:38.0

Well you know they got Al Capone for his tax evasion, I think that principle flies here.

1:43.7

I do think that they should do this for all annoying online personalities like everybody

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