Open Season For America's Wars

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, if president Trump wanted to denounce bullying, he could have done better than inviting a boy named Trump (no relation) to the State of the Union address. In 2001, Congress gave president Bush a nearly blank check for command of an American military bent on punishing the terrorist groups directly (and not so directly) responsible for 9/11. The Authorization for Use of Military Force still benefits U.S. presidents, and few in Congress today seek to curb it. Our guest, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, is among them. In the Spiel, Sen. Amy Klobuchar is in for 2020, and reports of her being too tough a boss should be taken in stride. This episode is brought to you by Simplisafe. Start protecting your home today at simplisafe.com/gist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you're about to listen to may include some potty talk then again it may not.
0:06.5	I hope it does though.
0:11.4	It's Monday February 11th 2019 from Slate.
0:14.2	It's just I'm Mike Pesca.
0:16.5	You know that the state of the union didn't mean anything when it was announced that Donald Trump will be talking about unity.
0:22.7	There are two tells to that.
0:24.6	One is that he was talking about unity and the other was that Donald Trump was talking.
0:28.1	But I do not believe that we have ever seen a weekend after the state of the union when the speech went
0:35.3	Unmentioned largely unmentioned on the Sunday shows meet the press literally did not invoke the phrase state of the union once
0:42.8	I bet that's never happened before on face the nation the only mention of the state of the union was this by conservative
0:49.1	panelists Jonah Goldberg Democrats this last week walked into
0:53.0	Donald Trump's thing at the state of the union about how we're never going to be a socialist country by on yeah that thing
0:59.2	Oh, but another thing and I was really thinking about this way too much
1:03.8	There was this one rhetorical slash symbolic move that Trump made that I talked about
1:08.2	But I've still been trying to figure out exactly what he was saying like really examining it
1:13.1	It's when he invited Joshua Trump who was bullied as a 10-year-old his last names Trump
1:18.6	He was bullied because his last name is Trump
1:20.1	So his Trump's point that bullying is bad. I mean that is Melania's caused a joy
1:25.1	But is it that bullying is bad because a Trump was bullied?
1:29.7	Is really the best illustration of not bullying the fact that you get a kid named Trump?
1:35.9	I mean wasn't this really about Trump's victimization to have to point to Joshua Trump?
1:42.6	I heard it put forth in conservative media. Well, what it is and dumb conservative media not good conservative media that oh
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