Trade War Rumblings? We're Already In One.

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, if you want gun control, you clearly have to just vote Democrat. In the interview, the tit-for-tat trade war with China is unceasing. Slate's Jordan Weissmann tells Mike about the latest developments in the fight between presidents Trump and Xi Jinping, whether or not China is really manipulating its currency, and the potential paths ahead. In the Spiel, Americans are getting angry over all the wrong things. It's infuriating! Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than may.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Main Theme Song"]
0:10.6	It's Tuesday, August 6, 2019, from Slate It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca.
0:15.4	We catastrophize nonsense, yet act nonsensically
0:19.7	in the face of true catastrophe.
0:22.3	That is true, but I will get to it later.
0:24.8	There is a spiel for that.
0:26.7	So I have lots of strong thoughts about what we should do
0:29.0	with guns, by the way, we won't.
0:31.3	In a Democratic controlled Senate,
0:32.9	after Sandy Hook, two measures failed.
0:35.2	One, Diane Feinstein sponsored this bill.
0:38.2	Obama urged it on.
0:40.1	It failed horribly, 40 to 60.
0:42.4	That was a ban on certain kinds of semi-automatic rifles
0:45.2	and large capacity magazines.
0:47.1	Nope, wouldn't want to do that.
0:48.3	Again, 40 to 60.
0:50.0	Current presidential candidate Michael Bennett
0:51.9	was in the 60 that voted against it, by the way.
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