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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #155 - Outside Agitators

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37719007 First, we discuss the protests in the United States, their bipartisan causes, and the ways that Blue Checkmark discourse seeks to delegitimize them. Then we discuss a quintessential Michael & Us movie, bringing together many of the themes and motifs that have defined this podcast: CAN MR. SMITH GET TO WASHINGTON ANYMORE? (2006), about the "insurgent" congressional candidacy of future-convicted-felon Jeff Smith against a machine-backed dynastic candidate in Missouri. Few films have better illustrated the limits of the American political imagination circa 2004 than this. PLUS: personal tales of the purest, most intense kind of politics there is : local politics.

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0:00.0

To your point about the way the Democrats use the language of social justice, there's an emerging

0:04.4

trend I've noticed on social media this morning in talking about the riots. All the kind of blue

0:10.1

checkmark dem people, your joy reads, your Pod Save Johns are starting to push this narrative of the

0:16.8

outside agitators. We're seeing new evidence, increasing evidence, that what was once a

0:23.1

peaceful black protest has been made violent by white supremacists or also Antifa, and Antifa being

0:30.8

coded as a white supremacist organization. And so, you know, obviously the solution is, well,

0:36.6

we know, we got to stop the protest because it's been corrupted by all these, all these bad, you know, white males, you know?

0:43.2

Oh, wow.

0:43.7

You tell me that, you're telling me that, you that wealthy liberals don't favor protests in which police cruisers get burnt.

0:51.2

Color me surprised.

0:52.4

What I love about that, uh i mean in addition to just

0:55.8

sort of being a cryptic way of of expressing discomfort at the fact of the protests and kind of the

1:02.5

you know destruction of property that they're bringing and stuff and the popular outrage that

1:07.0

they're showcasing you know kind of cryptically really just saying we need to we need to shut these down because I'm not actually okay with that. I'm, you know, I'm,

1:13.7

I'm down to say that racism is bad, but go a step further and, and, and you've gone too far.

1:18.7

Well, it's interesting to see them try to adapt to the new social media reality because 30 years

1:24.7

ago when, you know, Mookie through the trash can through the window and do the right

1:28.7

thing, it was a totally, well, you know, it was, it was the, obviously the wrong thing to destroy that

1:34.1

pizza parlor. We can all agree on that. But now there's an increasing consciousness that, you know,

1:39.0

if you, if you burn down a McDonald's, it's not the same as taking a black life. So these people now have to

1:45.4

figure out a way to adapt to that new consciousness. So they have to figure out a way to say that,

1:49.7

well, look, we're not saying that it's that the McDonald's is equal to the black life. But what

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