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Jacobin Radio

Weekends: Hashtag Activism w/ Amber Frost, RBG, and Confronting Feckless Democrats

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on September 19, 2020. The guest is Amber A'Lee Frost. Amber is a writer and co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast. She is currently completing her first book, on the rise of social-democratic politics post-2008 financial crisis.

Read her new essay at Catalyst here.

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0:00.0

The Brothers and sisters comrades and friends welcome to weekends. I am your host Nandovila and I'm joined as always with Anik Hesperian and a remarkable thing happened yesterday.

0:28.8

We were doing T. Y.T. We were dunking on Charlie Kirk. We were

0:34.0

having a lot of fun and then we got a bit of breaking news live on the air. What happened?

0:39.7

Right, so news broke that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, died at the age of 87.

0:48.0

She died from pancreatic cancer, and she had battled cancer five times prior to her passing.

0:54.8

So, you know, she was a fighter and she wanted to work

0:59.8

as long as humanly possible on the Supreme Court.

1:02.8

I know there's a lot of critique toward her decision

1:05.8

to do that, which we can talk about in a little bit.

1:09.7

But her granddaughter spoke to the press soon after news broke and said that there was one wish that

1:16.5

Justice Ginsburg had and here's the direct quote.

1:20.3

My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.

1:26.2

And so, you know, I think it's important to have a conversation about whether her wish can even

1:32.2

come to fruition,

1:33.8

because the fact of the matter is the Republican Party

1:37.1

understands power.

1:38.6

They will do anything and everything necessary

1:40.8

to utilize the power they have and accumulate more of it.

1:45.0

And more importantly, Republicans control the Senate.

1:49.5

And so all the professional well-paid commentators who are putting out tweets about how, oh my God,

1:58.0

these Republicans are so hypocritical because of what happened to Merrick Garland, which was of course Obama's Supreme Court nominee

2:05.8

who was blocked by Senate Republicans.

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