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Pantsuit Politics

The Briefcase: Grief, Laws, and the Unraveling of Donald Trump

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the aftermath of the Orlando tragedy, Chris Murphy's filibuster, and efforts to enact stricter gun laws. We also discuss how Donald Trump seems to be sabotaging himself.  Show Notes:  Our Episode on Guns  Sarah's Hopelessness  Filibuster  Trump Boosted, Clinton Hurt By Coverage 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

It's fair to say that everyone had some feelings this week.

0:04.0

From Donald Trump to gun rights, we discuss what we do and don't have nuance for.

0:10.0

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

0:13.0

You're listening to Panty Politics.

0:15.0

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:19.0

Before we get started today, we wanted to thank everyone for continuing to support the show.

0:32.0

You can become a subscriber or buy t-shirts or sign up for our awesome email at PantsyPoliticshow.com.

0:39.0

We've heard from a lot of people over the past two weeks, Sarah, and I thought that maybe instead of trying to dissect all of those individual messages as amazing as they are,

0:48.0

we could tackle the broad themes that came up.

0:51.0

Well, and a lot of things just happened.

0:54.0

A lot of things have been happening.

0:56.0

That's, I think, the most neutral way to say it.

0:59.0

A lot of things have been happening.

1:01.0

Well, the first thing I wanted to say is that if we do nothing else in our lives, I love that in this PantsyPolitics community, everyone so expects everyone else to be nuanced, that we're all announcing it when we're not anymore.

1:17.0

We're getting all these emails that say, let me just tell you, I've lost my nuance about this.

1:22.0

It's just really cool to see that we've sort of developed that language in a way of talking about things and those expectations.

1:28.0

So I really appreciate that.

1:30.0

I thought that it might be good for us to just talk about the things that we don't have any nuance for this week.

1:37.0

And so at the top of that list for me, as we discussed on Tuesday, is pretending that rape culture exists.

1:44.0

I felt that rape culture does not exist.

1:47.0

I felt really strongly about that when we recorded Tuesday's episode, but all of the stories that people have shared with us since then.

1:54.0

I'd spare to say I've doubled down on that position.

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