On Line For The DNC, Left Harasses Not-Quite-So Left

The Gist

Mike Pesca

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On his way into the Democrats big show in Chicago, Mike is confronted by protestors, stoned and angry. Inside, he talks to delegates, which makes him wonder who is more in touch with mainstream America ... the screamers or the Kool-Aid drinkers? Also on the show, University of Minnesota bioethicist and whistleblower Carl Elliott is out with a new book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday August 20th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.0	It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca in Chicago.
0:11.3	Dusk, outside the United Center, the DNC convenes in the Democrats, but more optimism
0:17.1	than a Jordan-led Bulls team with a fourth quarter lead.
0:20.5	We have everything in our favor. We have everything on our side. We're going to win. That was Tanisha Wilson,
0:26.7	Democratic delegate from Michigan. She was among the Democrats I asked,
0:31.2	are you optimistic?
0:33.2	Kind of a crazy question around here.
0:35.6	Do you think anything could go wrong?
0:37.9	The answers?
0:39.0	Well, only insofar as, to quote North Dakota's
0:41.7	Ashley Hyde Camp, crazy stuff always seems to attach itself
0:45.8	to the Trump campaign, but Hied Camp thinks maybe we're all getting used to that.
0:50.0	I honestly think that America is starting to see that Trump has the same playbook.
0:54.0	It's over and over again.
0:55.4	It's the same tactics over and over again.
0:57.7	So do I think that there's going to be chaos in the next few months?
1:00.9	Absolutely.
1:01.9	But I think it's going to be stuff we've already seen
1:03.7	Hyde Camp the former senator Heidi Hyde Camp is in the same camp if you will
1:08.8	excuse me as Florida's Brian Nathan so do you think anything could suppress enthusiasm for the Harris Wall's ticket,
1:15.8	which right now is plenty of enthusiasm?
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