Political Gabfest - Putin's War
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Emily and David are joined by guest host Jane Coaston. The three discuss Putin's war with guest Julia Ioffe and also the GOP attacks on transgender children, and Democrats’ “hack gap.”
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Julia Ioffe for Puck News: “Will Putin Get His World War III?”
Anne Appelbaum for The Atlantic: “The Reason Putin Would Risk War”
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Here’s this week’s chatter:
David: Work at City Cast; David’s “Exploring a Secret Fort” tour for Atlas Obscura; Florida’s Mount Trashmore
Emily: Danny Hakim and Jo Becker for The New York Times Magazine: “The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas”; Jane Mayer for The New Yorker: “Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to The Supreme Court?”
Jane: Sports Twitter
Listener chatter from Charlie Hunt: Christopher Ingraham for the Washington Post “The Owl Pellet Economy: Meet The Entrepreneurs Who’ve Devoted Their Lives to Bird Vomit.”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, following the death of public health hero Paul Farmer, Emily and David discuss the concept of heroes and the roles they can play in contemporary life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for February 24th, 2022, the Putin's War edition. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm David Plotz of Citicast. I'm here in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:24.6 | Hey, David. |
| 0:25.7 | And we have a first time GabFest guest. |
| 0:29.1 | Jane Koston is the host of the argument at the New York Times, the New York Times podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | Jane, we're really excited to have you here. |
| 0:36.1 | What is the argument and why are you always arguing? |
| 0:39.0 | In actual life, I hate arguing, but that's generally because everyone has debate team energy and |
| 0:43.9 | I hate debate team energy. I believe we are conversing. That is what we are attempting to do. |
| 0:48.4 | Whether it's on subjects as amorphous as patriotism or platforming or cancel culture in air quotes or also not in air quotes. Or it's |
| 0:57.6 | about what's taking place in Ukraine or should we contact aliens? And my answer was no. No, |
| 1:05.0 | absolutely not. This week on the Gab Fest, we will converse about the Russian war against Ukraine. |
| 1:12.1 | We'll talk with Julia Yaffe about what is happening now and what could happen next. |
| 1:15.6 | Then the conservative assault on LGBTQ kids and families from the Texas governor to the Arkansas |
| 1:22.4 | legislature to the Supreme Court, what is going on. |
| 1:25.8 | Then is technocracy a problem for Democrats, or democratic |
| 1:29.0 | economists specifically too ethical? And is that hurting Joe Biden's presidency and the economy? |
| 1:35.2 | Plus, we'll have a cocktail chatter. As of Thursday morning, there appears to be a broad Russian |
| 1:40.4 | attack against Ukraine as the 190,000 troops that Putin arrayed around its border have |
| 1:45.9 | begun attacking from the north, east and south, certainly by air and artillery. |
| 1:50.7 | I maybe by the time we're taping, there are already ground forces invading as well. |
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