Savage Love Episode 528
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.6 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.2 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | We're going to take comfort where we can find it. |
| 0:27.3 | This weekend in the United Kingdom, a pro-hardline Brexit Tory member of parliament was turfed out, lost an election to a liberal dem who is pro-Europe. |
| 0:39.1 | That was a little good sign, a little twinkling of hope there in the United Kingdom. |
| 0:43.5 | And then in Austria, where a hard-right neo-Nazi-ish leader of a party founded by former |
| 0:51.7 | members of Hitler's SS in Austria, hard right wing, anti-European, |
| 0:57.2 | anti-immigrant, pro-reassembling somehow the Austro-Hungarian Empire, lost an election to the |
| 1:04.2 | former member of the Green Party. |
| 1:06.2 | The Green Party in Europe is actually a party that elects people up and down the ballot, |
| 1:10.2 | doesn't just run people for president, but can run someone for president once in a while and legitimately run |
| 1:15.0 | someone for president and win an election because they're an actual political party, not a stunt, |
| 1:21.5 | which is what they are here. Anyway, file under bitter irony, the Nazi lost the election in Austria by the same percentage that Donald Trump lost the popular vote here in the United States. |
| 1:33.6 | So the Nazi in Austria is not going to be the president of Austria or the neo-Nazi or the leader of the party founded by Nazis. |
| 1:41.7 | It's not going to be the president of Austria because Austria does not have an anti-democratic electoral college. |
| 1:46.2 | Austria has a functioning parliamentary democracy. |
| 1:49.4 | Good for Austria. |
| 1:50.2 | Another silver lining there. |
| 1:52.8 | In the Department of Taking Comfort where you can find it, you might want to go check out |
| 1:56.7 | Trumpgrats. tumbler.com. |
| 2:09.1 | That's T-R-U-M-P-G-R-E-T-S dot Tumblr.com, where someone and God bless the person behind this Tumblr is pulling together tweets and blog posts from people who voted for Trump and are already, |
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