The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we take a big picture view of impeachment--what's it's role in government and what's the nature of the presidency? Michael Baranowski of The Politics Guys podcast joins to discuss, and also, to point out the similarities between the impeachment proceedings and the immortal film "Caddyshack."
Season 2, Ep 22
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. When everyone else is thinking in all caps, you're thinking in italics. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton and my voice and my blazer collection are all equally velvet. |
| 0:21.0 | Also my underwear. Right now Republicans and |
| 0:26.0 | Democrats are watching two very different movies play out about Donald |
| 0:30.4 | Trump and impeachment. |
| 0:32.8 | Now I don't know what elected officials are thinking and in general I think it's best |
| 0:36.0 | to analyze politicians on a tactical level rather than trying to read the contents of their |
| 0:40.4 | minds. |
| 0:41.4 | But for your friends and your neighbors, for regular humans, |
| 0:44.0 | there are two dueling films. |
| 0:48.0 | Republicans are watching this movie. |
| 0:51.0 | The proceedings are an impeachment in search of a crime. |
| 0:55.0 | The crime itself, if it even exists, is immaterial. |
| 0:59.0 | Democrats want to topple Donald Trump |
| 1:01.0 | and they'll settle on any excuse to do it. |
| 1:04.0 | They've been calling Republican candidates actual literal Hitler's too long and too hard, |
| 1:09.2 | and now a president congenitally immune to shame |
| 1:12.6 | has quit playing that game and it has psychologically unhinged anyone who drives a Prius. |
| 1:18.3 | The result is a desperate partisan witch hunt conducted by sore losers |
| 1:22.4 | to remove the duly elected president of the United States. |
| 1:27.0 | Democrats are watching this movie Frost Nixon only with a soundtrack entirely composed of Yackety Sacks. In this film, Trump has already blundered through multiple impeachable offenses. |
| 1:58.0 | The only reason there's not a smoking gun is that there are already 30 smoking Derringer pistols and the public has become so |
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