Watching a House of Cards Collapse

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A segment of the right-wing public has morphed into a conspiracy theory machine that is—in David’s words—propagating baseless voter fraud allegations at “a geometric rate that [bears] increasingly no relationship to the real world at the same time as the actual claims in court are just evaporating.” Why are people on the right and the left so susceptible to electoral conspiracy theories? After David and Sarah play catchup on the latest developments involving election litigation, they dive into a 1st Circuit race-based admissions case at Harvard, the latest updates on DACA, and The Mandalorian. Show Notes: -Andrew Fleischman thread on election lawsuits -Harvard affirmative action case, DACA decision, history of discrimination with SAT and Jewish applicants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to an Action Pact Advisory Opinions podcast.
0:25.0	And it's, sir, it's not going to be action packed exclusively with election.
0:30.0	Fraud litigation analysis.
0:32.0	In fact, that might not even be 40% of this podcast.
0:37.0	May not even be 30% of this podcast.
0:40.0	We're already moving on.
0:41.0	Not everybody's moving on, but we're already moving on.
0:44.0	Would you say that we have a vote fraud quota system?
0:48.0	Oh, now that's a nice, that's a nice tease for the, for the core of the podcast.
0:54.0	So here's what we're going to do.
0:56.0	We're going to begin by talking about vote fraud litigation.
1:00.0	And there were pretty significant developments towards the end of last week.
1:04.0	And moving into the weekend, we're going to talk about that.
1:08.0	Then we're going to talk about the first circuit race-based admissions decision and Harvard.
1:13.0	And I know we both have some thoughts about that.
1:17.0	Then we're going to talk about a decision that blocked DACA repeal from the Trump administration.
1:25.0	Here in the closing days of the Trump administration.
1:28.0	And we're going to wind up with a little bit of a pop culture discussion of the one show that until recently, Sarah,
1:36.0	was uniting all of America.
1:39.0	And that is the Mandalorian.
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