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This Is a Soft Revolution

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Ekow Yankah, professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, about those wacky Trump election lawsuits, the Republican attempts at voter suppression in the wake of close counts, and about how learning someone else’s language in order to sell them something leads you to become more like them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

0:07.0

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

0:15.0

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

0:21.0

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

Search zero with an ace because healthy business is beautiful business.

0:30.0

The government of, by and for the people, is very much alive. Very much alive in America.

0:38.0

Here, the people rule. Power can't be taken or asserted. It flows from the people.

0:47.0

And is there will that determines who will be the president of the United States and there will alone.

0:57.0

So we are going to continue the lawsuit here. We're going to bring a second one.

1:01.0

Then we're going to bring a federal lawsuit. And we're going to take a very good look at whether we bring this nationally.

1:21.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernon.

1:24.0

I keep saying this, but I refuse to be agitated or anxious or depressed.

1:29.0

I refuse to be like, oh, I'm biting my nails and trying mango eucalyptus bath salts and amethyst beads to lift my agitation.

1:37.0

I refuse in short to look this gift horse in the mouth.

1:42.0

By the way, and I know you know this, but when someone gives you a horse, like a gorgeous, awesome seabiscuit triple crowner,

1:50.0

and you're like, wait, he has some periodontic problems with his incisors. No, no, no.

1:57.0

Look instead at this gorgeous seabiscuit triple crowner. Trump has no way to win and Biden has all the ways.

2:05.0

He might even have been declared winner by the time we close out this episode, this home stretch episode of the tedious series called Donald Trump

2:13.0

in the epic, apocal world historical series called Trumpcast.

2:18.0

See, I'm feeling gloody and like manly, like a soccer thug.

2:23.0

Guys, we've got no problems here on Trumpcast.

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