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🗓️ 17 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Caro & Katie engage in a close read of the viral Free Press debate TikTok that stars a young woman angry she can’t live on a homestead, and accidentally discover it’s uniquely emblematic of the sort of right-wing radicalization we’re witnessing en masse in the United States.
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0:00.0 | Today's episode of Diabolical Lies was brought to you by Drag Queen Story Hour, banning birth control to own the libs, and Barry Weiss again, somehow. |
0:11.8 | Barry Weiss, again, somehow is going to be the name of my memoir. |
0:17.1 | All right, so if you're listening to this version of this episode, that means you're listening to the free version, the free preview. |
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0:37.9 | Caro, today I would like to drag you kicking and screaming into the wild, wild world |
0:44.6 | of free press swing state debates, baby. |
0:49.7 | Okay, so this debate style video on YouTube has sort of become more popular in recent years. |
0:56.6 | I think in part due to platforms like Jubilee. |
0:59.9 | Are you familiar with Jubilee? |
1:01.3 | I am not familiar with Jubilee at all. |
1:03.6 | Okay, well, you actually are because you've definitely seen clips from it. |
1:06.6 | You probably just didn't know that that's what it was. |
1:08.5 | Have you seen the one that's like, can one woke teen survive 25 conservative politicians? That's Jubilee. |
1:15.9 | So it's like, it's like 20 people in a church basement and someone's like, |
1:19.5 | but what about the blah, blah, blah, blah, and then it gets passed around in TikTok? |
1:23.5 | Yeah, it's like one on 25 style debates that always go viral because they are hot messes. |
1:28.9 | But one clip from this free press debate was making the rounds on Twitter recently and on TikTok. |
1:35.4 | It went like super, super viral. |
1:38.2 | It featured a woman in a brown blazer ranting about how she can't be like a homesteading stay-at-home mom because the economy |
1:46.7 | won't let her. And at first we wanted to talk about it because it was just like so endemic |
1:52.7 | to this like broader tradwife like ethos and kind of the way that the contradictions they're in. |
2:00.5 | But Kara, as I went deeper in my research for this episode, |
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