The Gaza Strip, House Speaker

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Education, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this deep dive episode Trey & Ken take a longview look at the conflict in the Gaza Strip. This includes a history into the formation of both Israel and the Gaza Strip, along with the key moments that led to the terrorist activity on Saturday. The pair discuss the current crisis, the likely next steps, and the response internationally and in the United States to the crisis. As a second story the guys look at the collapse of Scalise as the next U.S. House Speaker, likely next steps, and the possibility of a coalition Speaker with votes from House Democrats. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long hair, weirdos, short hair, weirdos, van Rolegold.
0:06.0	Love the government, the government, love, the government, the government,
0:11.0	the government, how good.
0:13.0	...the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.0	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined by the Professor of Law at Chase Law School, Ken Katken.
0:26.6	Ken, welcome to this Friday the 13th in October edition of the politics guys.
0:32.6	Yeah, and for Friday the 13th, I went ahead and because I was cursed, I got COVID.
0:41.4	Cursed Ken. I mean, there's kind of a ring to that. I hadn't thought about that.
0:46.1	Yeah. So I am doing this show from home. I'm not out. I'm quarantining, but I'm under the,
0:51.6	yeah, I am a little bit under the gun with the COVID.
0:54.1	You know, I'll say before we got started, you sound really chipper for a guy with COVID.
0:59.0	I'm not going to lie.
1:00.4	I mean, could this just be, and this is just me spitball in here, Ken, but given that I think we've all recognized now that the COVID vaccine is, in fact, just nanobots. Do you think that your left
1:12.6	wing positions is the reason that you continue to get COVID? I wonder. I mean, you know, I was
1:18.4	telling you, Trey, I don't mind telling the listeners. I've had all six vaccines. I've been vaccinated
1:23.5	six times, including the recent new vaccine. and yet this is the fourth time I've
1:28.5	got COVID. So I definitely have been like probably the most, probably the most frequently
1:34.2	infected person who's taken all six vaccines, but at least they've all been mild cases.
1:38.8	No, I hear you. I hear you. We were talking about the other show of the show. I've been
1:42.3	on a similar kind of schedule, but I have to do other kinds of things. I'm weird. I'm an immunocompromised man.
1:47.6	So, you know, there it is. Well, we, you know, this is going to be a different kind of show in the sense that we're going to take on fewer stories, Ken. And we had talked about that this week. And that's because, you know, we've just got two,
2:02.1	I think, really emblematic cases of why what we do on the politics guys is so different
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