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No Saviors, Just Us

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Sarah Jones, staff writer at New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, about the problem with putting Claudia Conway and other teenage girls on a pedestal, why Trump’s contracting of COVID doesn’t mean justice, and what she wants to see from Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, once again, we are a house divided,

0:04.0

but that, my friends, can no longer be.

0:07.5

We are facing too many crises.

0:09.9

We have too much work to do.

0:11.7

We have too bright a future to have a,

0:14.0

a shipwrecked on the shores of anger

0:17.0

and hate and division.

0:21.0

The history of COVID-19 is that you could look and feel like

0:25.0

you're doing reasonably well.

0:27.0

And after a couple of days, you could have a downturn.

0:30.0

When you're looking at over 210,000 dead bodies in our country,

0:34.0

and you know, the vice president is the head of the task force,

0:39.0

and knew on January 28, how serious this was.

0:46.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernin.

0:49.0

So I'm trying to keep myself from getting a lugeiac

0:52.0

and sort of valedictory as they do on the final few episodes of a sitcom.

0:56.0

We already know is not being renewed by Aaron B. Spelling.

0:59.0

Because heaven help us.

1:01.0

Trumpcast is the show that keeps getting renewed.

1:05.0

We hosted a finale party for this damned thing on November 8, 2016,

1:10.0

and we were absolutely crushed as the night dragged on

1:14.0

to find we still had our jobs.

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