Political Gabfest - The “Live from the Free and Independent Republic of California” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson, live from LA, discuss President Trump’s address to Congress, Jeff Sessions and California’s potential to secede.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.6 | My name is Reed Scott. |
| 0:06.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:08.2 | You guys ready for some hot, hot political discourse. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:18.2 | Thank you, Reed. |
| 0:20.5 | As a Washingtonian, there are three kinds of Washingtonians. There are the |
| 0:25.4 | Washingtonians who believe that politics is like the West Wing, where there's idealism, |
| 0:31.8 | and they're noble people accomplishing noble aims. There are people who believe that politics is like House of Cards, |
| 0:39.3 | which is that everything is conceived of by some Machiavellian person, |
| 0:44.3 | and it's all plotted out. |
| 0:46.2 | And then there are Washingtonians who believe that everything is like Veep, |
| 0:48.8 | which is that whatever, it's always incompetence, not malevolence. |
| 0:56.4 | And I think, it's an interesting moment now |
| 0:59.3 | because it's like it's neck and neck |
| 1:01.0 | between the House of Cards and Vee people |
| 1:03.0 | about what's actually happening. |
| 1:05.6 | And the West Wing people are gone. |
| 1:07.3 | The West Wing people... |
| 1:08.3 | They don't exist anymore. |
| 1:09.4 | The West Wing people now all work for Uber or something. |
| 1:12.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political |
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