The Lies Are Winning

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Washington Roundtable discusses the avalanche of disinformation that has taken over the 2024 election cycle, including an A.I. video meant to slander Tim Walz and claims that the votes are rigged before they’re even counted. Will this torrent of lies tip the election in favor of Donald Trump? Is there a way out of this morass of untruth? “I think the lies are clearly winning,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says. “But I would also say that that doesn’t mean that we should abandon the tools that are available.” Osnos notes recent defamation rulings against Rudy Giuliani and Fox News over false statements about the 2020 election as cases in point.

This week’s reading:

“Donald Trump and the F-Word,” by Susan B. Glasser
“Can Older Americans Swing the Election for Harris?,” by Bill McKibben
“What’s the Matter with Young Male Voters?,” by Jay Caspian Kang
“Door-Knocking in Door County,” by Emily Witt
“What Would Donald Trump Do to the Economy?,” by John Cassidy
“The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s Sorority,” by Jazmine Hughes

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0:00.0	I would just like to discuss Tucker Carlson's love of spanking and I don't know if you saw the little
0:08.8	speech he gave about Trump but I felt that it distilled everything about the authoritarian vision for America.
0:16.7	The leader is daddy.
0:19.9	The need is to punish insubordinate women. He actually went on and on about how you need to
0:27.6	spank her because she's been a very bad bad girl.
0:31.9	He said hormone adult is how he described her in that scenario.
0:36.6	You know I think that they are going to be a lot of you know dissertations written on the weird
0:42.2	sexual politics of 2024.
0:45.0	Among the many weird parts of that scene was that his comments then elicited this huge cheer from that crowd.
0:53.3	Apparently they went wild.
0:54.6	It was in Georgia, right?
0:56.2	Deluth, Georgia.
0:57.4	And he also, of course, said, you know,
0:59.1	they're tearing down statues of your ancestors.
1:02.8	So just a little nod to the Confederacy just in case you didn't get it.
1:06.3	He really was a sort of one-stop shopping,
1:08.8	misogyny, confederacy, nostalgia, all in one.
1:13.0	Getting the coveted spanking vote, apparently.
1:15.0	Oh my God.
1:17.0	Welcome to the political scene,
1:21.0	a weekly discussion about the big questions in American politics.
1:24.7	I am Jane Mayer and I'm joined by my colleagues Evan Osnos and Susan Glasser.
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