When the President Speaks …

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, President Trump interrupted Nancy Pelosi because he interrupts everyone. In the interview, the deputy executive director of U.N. Women, Åsa Regnér, knows how to bring more women into politics. Countries like Bolivia, Rwanda, and those in Scandinavia have achieved more equal representation. So how useful are quotas? Does religion play a role? How can gender parity be seen not just as a rights issue but something smarter for policymaking, the economy, and the health of the country? In the Spiel, putting a dollar value on the election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode could contain profanity, it's up to me, I guess.
0:03.6	Your Saturday could contain a just newsletter.
0:07.1	To sign up for it or once a week newsletter,
0:09.9	go to slate.com slash just news.
0:12.9	["Jingle Bells"]
0:16.6	It's Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
0:18.9	from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska.
0:21.1	So I've been stewing on the bananas meeting
0:25.2	between Chuck and Dunn and Nancy.
0:27.6	I know you have the block of wood
0:28.9	playing the role of Mike Pence.
0:30.4	And what's remarkable is how unremarkable it was,
0:33.5	more on the exact nature of how it was simultaneously
0:36.9	a mind-blowing 3D acid trip and a rearing
0:40.4	of an episode of Gilligan's Island where
0:42.1	guess what, they didn't get off the island.
0:43.9	More on that in a second.
0:44.9	But first, I want to concentrate on this one aspect.
0:48.0	After the meeting, I saw a few articles claiming
0:50.7	that what we saw on display was Trump's sexism.
0:54.0	Well, the man is a bore and a sexist and often being just
0:58.2	himself includes sexism.
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