Politix Christmas Mailbag
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The mailbag episode is here! Thanks to all who sent questions, and apologies to those who didn’t get answers. We hoped to get through more, but brevity isn’t our strong suit and we ran out of time. But the answers we DID deliver are choice, in our opinion.
We touch on:
* Ezra Klein’s terribly wrong ideas about the political impact of blue-state and blue-city misgovernance;
* What Donald Trump’s attempt at an unconstitutional third term will look like IF he tries;
* How Biden could go out with a bang, even without relying on presidential immunity (but probably won’t);
* Matt’s candid thoughts about Pod Save America (as Brian demurs).
This episode is free to all, a small token of gratitude to all of our subscribers this holiday season for making this podcast possible. We’ll do more of these in the coming year, and if you want your questions answered (or at least included in a lengthy Google document that we might not get through in the allotted time) you know what to do:
Further reading:
* Brian offers a new, important reason people should reset their relationships with social media.
* Michelle Goldberg on this great capitulation.
* Greg Sargent discusses the challenges of rebuilding in this climate with Ben and other DNC candidates, Ken Martin, and Martin O’Malley.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.politix.fm/subscribe
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Joe Biden could just like declassified and release a bunch of government information about Donald |
| 0:03.7 | Trump and his shady ties. |
| 0:05.3 | And he could probably just cancel Elon Musk's government contracts. |
| 0:09.4 | Yeah, just do it. |
| 0:10.6 | I would love to believe that they were thinking about it and to see them do it because why the |
| 0:14.7 | fuck not? |
| 0:15.3 | And also like, make it work at it. |
| 0:17.5 | Like make it take up some of their time and resources. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello. make it work at it. Like make it take up some of their time and resources. Hello and welcome to this special holiday mailbag episode of the politics podcast. I'm |
| 0:29.5 | Brian Boitler. I'm Matthew Iglesias. So this episode will be free to all in the in the spirit |
| 0:35.0 | of Christmas. But the questions come from paid subscribers. |
| 0:38.6 | So if you want in on the next mailbag episode whenever we do that, you know what to do. |
| 0:43.7 | Go to politics.fm and upgrade your subscription. |
| 0:47.7 | But I guess for now we should just jump in, right? |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:51.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:51.6 | Let's do it. |
| 0:51.8 | All right. |
| 0:52.5 | All right. |
| 0:52.8 | The first question comes from Stuart J. Let's do it. All right. All right. The first question comes from |
| 0:55.1 | Stuart J. It's a, it's a two-parter. And it goes like this. A topic I've heard former |
| 1:01.6 | Weeds host, Ezra Klein. I like the idea that. Aser Klein? |
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