Savage Love Episode 561
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 52 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 | while there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.9 | Democrats have a new slogan. |
| 0:27.7 | Not a lot of new faces, no branches of our federal government and no hope of a liberal majority on the Supreme Court anytime soon. |
| 0:34.5 | But we got a new slogan. |
| 0:36.8 | It goes like this, a better deal, better jobs, |
| 0:39.6 | better wages, better future. All right, a three-word slogan with better being one of those three |
| 0:45.2 | words. I can get behind that. And it's a little history-ish and a little dickish, which are two good |
| 0:51.8 | things to be-ish. A better deal invokes FDR and pokes Donald Trump. |
| 0:56.7 | The new deal was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression. Quote, |
| 1:00.7 | a series of federal programs, public works, projects, and financial reforms and regulations, |
| 1:06.2 | says Wikipedia, for those of you who don't know nothing about history. And the art of the deal, |
| 1:11.3 | of course, is a book, a book second only to the Bible and its impact on and importance to |
| 1:17.0 | the ongoing human project, according to a person who had nothing to do with writing that book. |
| 1:22.5 | That person would be Donald Trump, of course. Because according to Tony Schwartz, the book's |
| 1:26.6 | actual author, aka the book's ghost writer, |
| 1:29.5 | not only didn't Trump write Art of the Deal, Trump never even read Art of the Deal. |
| 1:34.5 | But I don't want to relitigate Art of the Deal. |
| 1:37.0 | That's old news. |
| 1:38.0 | Not big, just old. |
| 1:38.8 | I want to discuss the Democrats' new slogan and their new promises to the American people, |
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