Weekly Roundup: Trump's Debate Coup and How the Office Warned us About 2020

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On an abbreviated Weekly Roundup Brad discusses the first presidential debate, the media's inability to call out Trump's threats of violence and election delegitimization, the ways White Catholics and young Evangelicals might be souring on the president, the new documentary that shows how the White House worked with churches to radicalize marginalized people, and how "The Office" warned us about the 2020 hellscape. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate:https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor
0:17.0	Religious Studies, Skidmore College. We're not going to have a weekly roundup this week on Friday.
0:21.8	I am unable to be available on Friday
0:26.0	due to some previous plans and things going on and so I just wanted to provide a
0:32.1	kind of short bit of analysis on the debate from Tuesday night
0:36.9	and some of the other news stories that have happened related to Trump and white evangelicals
0:42.4	and religion and so on and so forth.
0:45.0	Some of you were attacking me on Twitter and wondering what I was going to think about the debate last night.
0:50.0	And first of all, I think it was obvious that it was just an incredibly sad
0:56.7	display of statesmanship and I'll put it this way.
1:03.7	It seems really unfair to me to have the media
1:07.5	characterize it as a kind of both side situation.
1:12.6	There were definitely times that Joe Biden was frustrated.
1:15.8	He said shut up, he said keep yapping and that kind of thing.
1:20.6	But if you are in a situation where someone barges into your home and starts overturning your furniture and destroying things, your reaction to that is going to be, you know, somewhat unnerved and it's going to, it's going to garner strong emotions in you. Okay? Well, that's what happened to me in terms of what I saw last night.
1:43.7	I saw Donald Trump having no interest in a good faith debate,
1:48.0	having no interest in dialogue, having no interest in wanting to talk about the issues.
1:54.0	His interest was in being a bully,
1:56.0	and we know that's what he is, okay?
1:59.0	He did not want to get into a substantive argument about climate change about health care about
2:05.5	COVID about the military about any of those things okay this leads so I think the
2:12.0	thing that was the most disappointing for me last night and that was
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