Political Gabfest - The “There Once Was a Union Maid But Not Anymore” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the changes to gun sales following the Parkland shooting, the most recent White House shake-ups, and the future of public unions as Janus v AFSCME comes before the Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest from March 1st, 2018. |
| 0:14.5 | The There Once was a Union Made, but Not Anymore. |
| 0:17.6 | I am David Klotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:22.6 | John Dickerson of CBS This Morning is in New York. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, John. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.3 | And Emily Bazelon is back from wherever she was, from her Mount Doom, for her, from her... |
| 0:33.7 | Brooklyn. |
| 0:34.2 | From her trip to Svalbard. |
| 0:37.3 | Mere Voyage on the dawn treader. |
| 0:40.2 | Or whatever, Brooklyn, fine. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello. |
| 0:45.3 | On this week's Gab Fest, the campaign against the NRA gets heated as gun safety advocates pressure corporations to cut ties with the organization and President Trump weighs into the gun debate most Trumpishly. |
| 0:59.5 | Then White House intrigue, palace intrigue, Hopex leaves. |
| 1:05.0 | Then the end and along with that, the extremely satisfying come down of slumlord, self-important jerk bro, Jared Kushner, who is brought low by... |
| 1:17.6 | Don't you mean senior White House official? |
| 1:19.6 | Sorry, that was in my notes. |
| 1:21.5 | I misread that. |
| 1:22.6 | That's exactly what it said in my notes. |
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