Political Gabfest - Build Back Never
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the future of the Democratic party's agenda, Omicron's spread across the United States and they're joined by investigative journalist Azmat Khan to talk about the deaths of civilians overseas and the lack of accuracy from the U.S. military.
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Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: “$1.75 Trillion Is Plenty of Money to Write a Good Build Back Better Bill Here Are Some Solid Options”
Simon Bazelon and David Shor for Slow Boring: “A Permanent CTC Expansion With a Sharper Means-Test Would Protect Poor Kids Better And Be More Popular”
Jonathan Chait for New York Magazine: “Biden Should Take Manchin's Deal Right Now”
David Wallace-Wells for New York Magazine: “Gauteng’s Omicron Wave Is Already Peaking. Why?”
Derek Thompson for the Atlantic:”Is Omicron Milder?”
Azmat Khan for The New York Times: “Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes”
Azmat Khan for The New York Times Magazine: “The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars”
Azmat Khan for The New York Times Magazine: “The Uncounted”
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Katie Benner, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Charlie Savage for the New York Times: “Some Inmates Can Stay Confined at Home After Covid Emergency, Justice Dept. Says”
John: The Power of Meaning, by Emily Esfahani Smith, Mozhan Marno, and On the Meaning of Life, by Will Durant
David: Hard Knocks In Season: The Indianapolis Colts
Listener chatter from Mo Trent: stuffin.space
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss their most and least useful years of formal education. Special thanks to listener Sean McPherson for the suggestion.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for December 23rd, 2021, the Build Back |
| 0:13.4 | Never edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm David Plotz. |
| 0:17.4 | You catch what I did there. |
| 0:18.7 | Last week, it was Build Back later. |
| 0:20.2 | This week, it's Build Back Never. This week it's built back never. |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:23.4 | We are already swirling inside your rhetorical cyclotron. |
| 0:29.5 | It's really bad when you have to explain the joke in the first sentence. |
| 0:32.9 | I am David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:36.6 | On a COVID quarantine, I'm COVID quarantined here in Washington, D.C. on a COVID quarantine. I'm COVID quarantined here in |
| 0:40.0 | Washington, D.C. joining me from New Haven, maybe, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, |
| 0:46.7 | or the New Times Magazine, and Yale University of Law School. Hi, Emily. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey, David. And from parts unknown, John Diggerson of CBS Sunday morning. Hello, John. |
| 0:57.9 | Hello, David. Good morning. And good morning, Emily. I'm sorry you're in quarantine. Yeah, it's, well, we'll talk about it. |
| 1:05.0 | This week, we're going to talk about build back better. How dead is it, or is it really dead? then we will be joined by osmott khan to talk |
| 1:13.6 | about her extraordinary investigation into the civilian casualties of america's drone war in the |
| 1:19.6 | middle east then season three of the pandemic begins on netflix with omicron is it a catastrophe or just a disaster? We will kind of assess the |
| 1:30.7 | state of the nation and our pandemic response as the holidays descend upon us. And then, of course, |
| 1:38.3 | we will have cocktail chatter. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's decision to abandon the current iteration of build back better, the huge $1.75 trillion social spending bill that Democrats and President Biden have been counting on. |
| 1:58.3 | His abandonment has infuriated progressives. It's infuriated the White House who have |
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