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Political Gabfest

The Greatest Betrayal

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Emily, David and John talk about impeachment, whether Americans can be deradicalized, and guest Juliette Kayyem joins in to discuss vaccine distribution. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine: “People Are Dying. Whom Do We Save First With the Vaccine?  Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America by John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavrek  Amarnath Amarasingam’s Twitter thread on de-platforming extremists.  Amarnath Amarasingam, Shiraz Maher, and Charlie Winter for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats: “How Telegram Disruption Impacts Jihadist Platform Migration” The music of Ludovico Einaudi The music of Joan Armatrading The music of John Prine The music of M.I.A. The music of Joan Jett The music of Maren Morris The music of Joni Mitchell The music of Bob Mould and Husker Du The music of Nick Thompson Nicholas Thompson for Wired: “To Run My Best Marathon at Age 44, I Had to Outrun My Past” “Iko Iko” performed by the Grateful Dead  “You’ll Never Walk Alone” performed by Gerry and the Pacemakers Tusk by Fleetwood Mac Desire by Bob Dylan In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:  John: Nathaniel Popper for The New York Times: “Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes” Emily: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell  David: The Dancing Bird of Paradise Scene from “Our Planet” Listener chatter from Richard Medlicott: Steven Levy for Wired: “A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?” Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John talk about the music they turn to in order to clear their heads. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the Slate Local Gap Test for January 14th, 2021, the greatest betrayal

0:42.2

edition I am David Plots of CityCast in Washington, DC. I'm joined from New York by John Dickerson

0:51.0

of CVS 60 minutes. Hello John Dickerson. Hello David. And from some point south by Emily

0:59.1

Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and UL University Law School. Hello Emily.

1:03.2

Hey David.

1:04.2

Emily has sun shine. Sun is shining on Emily unlike the rest of us. I don't speak metaphorically,

1:10.6

although that's probably true. On today's Gap Test, we will talk about the second impeachment

1:16.5

of President Trump done in a single day. He's still president though and will remain so

1:21.4

through the end of his term in six days. Then can the violent and delusional and Trump

1:28.2

idolizing movement that has captured 30, 40, 25 percent of America can that be purged

1:38.2

from American politics or we stuck with it if we are stuck with it? How can America continue?

1:44.0

And then we will talk about the vaccine crisis. We will be joined by Juliet Kayam of Harvard's

1:50.3

Kennedy School of Government to talk about what's going on, whether the Biden administration

1:54.6

is going to make the vaccine roll out better. Plus we'll have cocktail chatter.

2:00.1

Liz Cheney, the third ranking House Republican said there has never been a great

2:04.0

upper trail by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.

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