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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Republicans Don't Actually Believe In The Issues They Support

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump declares liberal cities "anarchist zones" and threatens to defund them, Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the political maneuver and damage it could cause, as well as the growing mess that is the vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And when you see them cheating on the other side, I don't say if, when, when you see them cheating

0:07.8

with those ballots, all of those unsolicited ballots, those millions of ballots, you see them.

0:13.3

Anytime you do, report them to the authorities.

0:16.1

The authorities are waiting and watching.

0:18.8

Then you have Ruth Bader Ginsburg who told her granddaughter on her deathbed, allegedly,

0:23.6

that her dying wish was to have the next president choose her successor.

0:27.2

How do you think all this plays out?

0:29.1

Well, I don't know that she said that, or was that written out by Adam Schiff and Schumer and Pelosi.

0:34.2

I would be more inclined to the second.

0:36.3

Okay, you know, that came out of the wind.

0:37.9

It sounds so beautiful. But that sounds like a Schumer deal or maybe a Pelosi or a shifty shift.

0:46.1

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. As always, I'm here with my

0:51.1

loyal and wonderful co-host, Nick Houseman.

1:03.2

We have so much going on right now that is frustrating, maddening, demoralizing, crazymaking.

1:12.4

Of course, we came to you with an emergency podcast over the weekend after the tragic loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

1:18.8

which I think I described on the emergency podcast as being like a cinder block thrown into a bathtub.

1:25.7

Washington, D.C., our political system and the presidential election have been completely toppled over. It is mass chaos and anarchy. There are plans

1:31.7

being floated left and right. Nick, what are you making of the fallout or of the fallout so far?

1:38.4

I mean, it's inevitable. They're going to have a vote. And like today he calls to have the vote

1:44.1

before the election on on a new Supreme Court justice.

1:48.6

And I don't think there's anything that's going to really stop them.

1:52.3

And so I'm kind of like, I'm starting to wonder if like the entire American experiment is an inevitable ability of getting to this point.

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