Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 17th, 2022, the Angry Parents Edition.

I am David Plotz of CityCast.

I'm right here in Washington, D.C.

I'm joined, as always, by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning from New York. Hello, John. Hello, David. And Emily is out. I don't know where she is. I never know where anybody is. I don't even know. She's like she was texting me last night. But is she on the show? No. So mysterious. Doesn't matter.

Well, just because she's not on the show doesn't mean she's expired.

All I know is she's driving somewhere that takes a long time. That's what I've been told.

Oh, that's good. Good to know. Here's Josie Duffy Rice, beloved Gab Fest, regular, a writer in Atlanta. Hello, Josie. Thank you for joining us.

Hi, thank you for having me. You're not driving anywhere. I'm driving nowhere. I don't like to drive, so.

Well, Atlanta will cure you of wanting to drive anyway. That's very true. We're not the best drivers, that's for sure.

The worst accident, in that it was the most expensive accident of my life, it happened in the 24

hours I once drove in Atlanta.

The only time I've ever driven in Atlanta, I got into just a stupid, tiny little accident

that was hideously expensive.

My husband, who's from L.A. is constantly shocked that there isn't just a wreck every two

blocks in Atlanta.

He says we're the worst drivers he's ever seen.

This week, we will not be talking about driving at all.

We are going to talk about anger, though, and why parents are so angry about so many things,

but mostly about schools.

Then, how much trouble are the Democrats in now and in November and how much trouble is Joe Biden in?

And then we're going to talk about the gun liability settlement in the Sandy Hook case

and whether that settlement could weaken the gun industry.

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