The South Yawn
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Trump closed out the RNC last night, with a meandering 70-minute long speech that saw him paint a rosy picture of his administration’s handling of COVID-19 and promise a vaccine before the end of the year. Trump also tried to suggest that Biden would usher in chaos, while tending to ignore or misrepresent the chaos that’s happening under his administration.
Later today thousands of protestors are expected to gather in Washington, DC, bringing the energy of this year’s many racial justice protests to the nation’s capitol. Jacob Blake’s father is set to speak at the event, along with other family members of people who have experienced police brutality.
And in headlines: early impact of Hurricane Laura, an update on coronavirus in Europe, and Bon Appétit hires Dawn Davis as its editor-in-chief.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 28th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Resseneck and this is what a day where we are proud to say we have no memory |
| 0:12.2 | of what happened between 530 and 930 Pacific last night. |
| 0:15.5 | Yeah, I mean, it's kind of weird, but we tried to think of what we watched on TV and just |
| 0:19.2 | came up completely blank. |
| 0:20.8 | Yeah, I like to think I was out grilling. |
| 0:23.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:33.0 | On Z-Show, protesters get ready to march on Washington for racial justice than some headlines. |
| 0:38.2 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:43.6 | You want to see a bird graveyard? |
| 0:45.1 | You just go, take a look, a bird graveyard? |
| 0:48.2 | Go under a windmill someday. |
| 0:51.0 | You'll see more birds than you've ever seen ever in your life. |
| 0:54.9 | Oh, God. |
| 0:56.4 | All right. |
| 0:57.4 | Well, that was Donald Trump and the final night of the RNC. |
| 1:01.3 | So last night, speaking in front of a crowd that didn't seem to be socially distancing, wasn't |
| 1:05.9 | tested generally and was largely maskless, Trump accepted his party's nomination on the |
| 1:10.5 | South Lawn of the White House. |
| 1:12.3 | It capped off a week in which various government officials and family members use federal property |
| 1:16.2 | as backdrop for campaign rallies, you know, the whole swamp draining thing. |
| 1:21.3 | Outside the White House protesters were gathered and at times in the background of Trump's |
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