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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, December 1st, the Is He Your President Edition?

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

I'm actually physically in the New York studios today with Tim Thomas, editor of Outward, Slate's LGBT blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. But we're missing your sister. I know. That's true. Hopefully she's still listening. She was so great. She was awesome. I'm grateful to have her. Okay. So, I read this

morning that Trump wants to prosecute people who burn the American flag. It's just like reading

these stories, you wake up in the morning, and you're like, which one it is today? And then he says

that. And then the newspaper has to patiently explain there's a constitutional ruling. You know, they do that very straight, like,

like kind of straight man explanation. Like, no, you can't wrong. You can't do that.

But isn't he, I mean, he's completely doing that on purpose, right? That news came out right

before he announced his pick for Treasury Secretary from Goldman Sachs, right?

It's the Steve Bannon genius that's saying, okay, this morning you're going to wake up and tweet about, or tonight you're going to tweet about flag burning.

And that'll distract people from the Goldman pick.

Do you think that's true, that media conspiracy that he he, like we're all just like idiots because we read the Twitter feed and it distracts us from the real news?

Or it's even specifically that.

It's just like his his method is carpet bombing.

Like just start 100 fires so that people, the media, opposition, everybody is so busy putting out

100 fires that they can't pay attention to any one of them. It's just like, we just need to put

out these fires. But the flag burning thing was so random that it made me think it was like,

okay, we sat down and talked about what would get people the angriest. And it was flag burning. But so Bannon is the most interesting person then. Yeah. That's, that's the person someone has to follow closely and write a book about. He's, he's, if this narrative is true and he's the rest, like he's pulling all the strings,

he's, he's the interesting one. Because there's no way Trump is that strategic. Right. I agree

with that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, that has nothing to do with her show. But since I didn't

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