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Pantsuit Politics

Tax Cuts, Mugabe and Zimbabwe, and the Opioid Crisis

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The opioid epidemic impacts all of us in increasingly significant ways. Today, we’re discussing the impact of President Trump’s decision to declare this a public health emergency.  It's Thanksgiving, and we're so grateful to everyone who makes Pantsuit Politics possible. We couldn't do the podcast without the support of our patrons, our advertising agency, and our sponsors. Thanks to today's sponsors: BeFrugal.com and ModCloth. If you're interested in advertising on Pantsuit Politics, please reach out to Midroll. We're also so excited to launch our new podcast, The Nuanced Life, this week. Thank you for helping us out by listening, rating, subscribing, and reviewing it on the Apple Podcast Player! If you'd like Pantsuit Politics to speak at your university, business, or organization, please let Beth know.  We begin with an update on Republican efforts to cut some people's and companies' taxes. Some of the provisions in the Senate bill are truly mind-boggling.  Next, we discuss the recent military coup in Zimbabwe. We talk about Robert Mugabe's rise to power, the World Health Organization's decision to revoke his appointment as a global health ambassador, the events leading up to the coup--including a military official's trip to China, and his response to being placed under house arrest. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee seems uneasy about how power might transition in this nation.  To compliment the other side, Sarah compliments Senator Lisa Murkowski for her insistence on a healthcare stabilization plan in relation to the tax cut bill. Beth appreciates Brian Baird, who is joining forces with a former state GOP... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're spreading the nuance in 2018.

0:04.4

Sarah and I are making plans for live podcast, workshops, keynote speeches and political

0:09.2

reconciliation work.

0:11.1

If you'd like us to come to your university, workplace or organization, please email me

0:16.6

at Beth at PantsuitPoliticsShow.com.

0:21.5

The opioid epidemic impacts all of us in increasingly significant ways.

0:26.6

Today we're discussing the impact of President Trump's decision to declare this a public health

0:31.2

emergency.

0:32.2

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

0:35.4

You're listening to PantsuitPolitics, no shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:56.6

Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone and welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

1:08.8

As Sarah mentioned on Friday's show, this is a great time, especially for us to say thank

1:13.4

you to the more than 300 people who support us on a monthly basis on Patreon.

1:19.5

We could not make the show without your support and we're very grateful.

1:24.2

If you would like to become a monthly supporter, you can do that for anything from a dollar

1:28.6

to a hundred dollars a month and get lots of extra content, you can go over to patreon.com

1:34.6

slash PantsuitPolitics.

1:37.4

We also are mere moments, mere moments away from launching the nuanced life, our new podcast,

1:45.1

which takes the sometimes extensive conversations we have on this podcast about things that

1:50.5

are not so much political and it gives them a home.

1:53.9

We have conversations about family and marriage and our favorite topic, culture and the messages

1:59.8

we send each other and we talk about articles, sort of the same structure we do on Pantsuit

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