Political Gabfest - Get Those Huddled Masses Out of My Yard

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

John, Emily and David discuss the fate of the Build Back Better agenda; vaccine mandates working; and journalist Caitlin Dickerson helps explain the recent U.S. immigration actions and to identify some fresh strategies for change.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “It’s All or Nothing for These Democrats, Even if That Means Biden Fails”

Josh Marshall for Talking Points Memo: “Kill the Bill”

Caitlin Dickerson for The Atlantic: “Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over”

Caitlin Dickerson for The Atlantic: “America’s Immigration Amnesia”

Here’s this week’s chatter:

John: Glamourdaze YouTube video: “A Walk in the Park - c.1900 | Bois de Boulogne Paris - AI Enhanced; Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa

Emily: CNN: “Florida Man Fights Alligator With Trash Can”; Jonathan Mann’s folk song celebrating the Florida Man Who Caught An Alligator In A Trash Can

David: The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell

Listener chatter from Matthew Ringel: Veritasium YouTube video, about the history of potash: “These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, David, and Emily talk about earlier times in history they would have liked to have been podcasting together. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Danny Lavery's show Big Mood, Little Mood and you’ll be supporting the Political Gabfest.

Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 30th, 2021.
0:11.6	The Get Those Huddled Masses Out of My Yard edition.
0:14.4	I'm David Plotz of CityCast.
0:16.7	I'm here in Washington, D.C.
0:18.8	And I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School.
0:23.6	Hello, Emily.
0:24.7	Good morning.
0:25.8	And by John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning.
0:29.3	Hello, John.
0:31.1	Hello to you both.
0:33.2	This week, it's Thursday morning when we're taping, and it's make-a-break week, or maybe even make-or-break
0:39.2	day for Democrats. Can they find a way to pass an infrastructure bill and build back better?
0:45.9	Can they raise the debt ceiling? Looks like they're going to stop the government shutdown, at least.
0:50.4	That's one down. Then we will talk about vaccine mandates. Are they working?
0:56.8	And then the United States is brutally divided over immigration and has an ongoing crisis on the
1:03.1	southern border. We'll be joined by the great Caitlin Dickerson, the immigration reporter at the Atlantic,
1:08.2	to mull it all over and will reveal whether Caitlin Dickerson is related
1:12.7	to John Dickerson later in the show. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And a reminder,
1:18.9	dear listeners, we are still gathering conundrums for our conundrum show. So many good ones have come in.
1:25.6	You know, there are so many fun ones from years past.
1:29.3	The, would you rather have a washing machine or the vote one?
1:32.2	So that one is so good.
	...

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