Political Gabfest - Impeach Today
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John and David are joined by Andrea Valdez of The Atlantic to discuss New York Mayor Andrew Cuomo refusing to resign, the survival of the eviction moratorium and the arrival of vaccine passports.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Annie Lowery for the Atlantic: “The Time Tax”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Andrea: Planet Money: “Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage”; Jerusalem Demsa for Vox: “Homeownership Can Bring Out the Worst in You”
John: Jason Kottke for Kottke.org: “This App Identifies Birds by Their Songs”; Merlin Bird ID app
David: Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, by Angie Schmitt; The @FrogandToadbot Twitter account
Listener chatter from Noah Lieberman: David Gilbert for Vice: “‘I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax.’”
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.)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 4th, 2021, the Impeachim Today edition. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm David Flots of Citycast here in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon is on vacation, so she's not here. |
| 0:20.2 | Instead, Andre Valdez, who is now the senior vice president of audience strategy at The Atlantic, joins us from Texas, probably, right? |
| 0:27.6 | That's correct. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello. And congratulations on your new job. |
| 0:30.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.2 | John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning and Face the Nation, and also The Atlantic, joins us from somewhere. Hello, John. Hello, David. Can I ask you, is that a new windscreen on your microphone? It looks like a dissipated eggplant. Has it always been that? It's always been a dissipated eggplant. Maybe it's the light in the room or something. It's this lovely color of purple, for those of you in the listening audience. |
| 0:55.0 | If I were president, you know what my Secret Service code name would be? |
| 0:58.2 | Discipated Eggplant. |
| 1:00.2 | This week, we will talk about Andrew Cuomo, who is still somehow the governor of New York, |
| 1:05.0 | despite a damning, depressing report revealing that he harassed, recently harassed or sexually assaulted |
| 1:12.8 | about a dozen women while he's been governor of New York. It's just stunning. Then the Biden |
| 1:19.7 | administration has restored or sustained the COVID-inspired federal eviction moratorium after a |
| 1:26.7 | progressive pressure campaign. Is that a good thing? |
| 1:29.6 | How long will it last? And then vaccines, vaccine mandates, masking mandates. Everyone's got a |
| 1:35.6 | mandate. We're going to talk about mandate week here at the GabFest. Plus, of course, we'll have |
| 1:40.1 | cocktail chatter. At the time of taping on Thursday morning, Andrew Cuomo remains governor of New York. |
| 1:47.4 | He is holed up in the governor's mansion, apparently with his dog. And you have to hand something to him. |
| 1:53.2 | The guy has a brassiness and a imperturbability in the face of his own wickedness that is really |
| 1:58.7 | hard to find outside of the sociopathic wing of a local prison. |
| 2:03.1 | But it's just incredible after the report that Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, compiled this devastating report on his many, many, many acts of sexual harassment of assault, some of which had already been reported in the media |
| 2:17.7 | many months ago, and some knew, including the absolutely gory, gruesome tales of a trooper |
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