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The Gist

White Fragility Kills the Argument

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, Trump is lost in the numbers. In the interview, former mayor of Minneapolis Betsy Hodges joins Mike to talk about her most recent op-ed in the New York Times, "As Mayor of Minneapolis, I Saw How White Liberals Block Change." In it, Hodges challenges white liberals to confront the status quo of comfort and move the horizon of racial disparity that breeds police brutality. In the spiel, is the scientific method white? The Smithsonian seems to think so Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast may be a little dirty, but forget about that.

0:04.0

I'm going to tell you to go to our Twitter feed at SlateGis.com.

0:13.0

It's Thursday, July 16th, 2020, from Slated to the Gisdai Mic Pesca, President Trump today.

0:19.0

Spoke at the White House. He dabbled in meteorology.

0:22.0

A lot more water, and in many places, in most places of the country, water is not a problem.

0:28.0

They don't know what to do with it. It's called rain.

0:30.0

But mostly the speech was about regulation, which he is against, but also for barriers to unemployment and to employment.

0:39.0

Mostly Trump repeated, sometimes paragraph by paragraph, a speech he gave in Atlanta yesterday.

0:44.0

Now, the big news out of that Atlanta speech was that the mayor there, Kisha Lance Bottoms,

0:49.0

herself afflicted with COVID-19, said that the president's behavior in her city was more than unwelcomed, it was illegal.

0:56.0

So by not having on a mask of President Trump did violate law in the city of Atlanta.

1:03.0

We're unlikely to see Cuff slapped on him, given where that particular transgression falls, if we were to play Donald Trump presidential crime triage.

1:12.0

The speech Trump gave today, and yesterday was full of bald face lies, befitting his mask status, but also it displayed a focus on numbers.

1:24.0

The Elocution of Numbers in Sequence.

1:28.0

Alright, so there was this about waiting periods.

1:31.0

For one, for two, for three, and you'd be waiting in so many different agencies.

1:37.0

9, 10, 12, skipping 11 there, is this his version of the Fibonacci sequence?

1:42.0

But then, when Trump comes to the number of years to wait, it's 10 years, 15 years, 18 years, 21 years.

1:50.0

So the 533 progression, but then when it came to multiples of an initial cost estimate, 10, 20, 30 times the cost.

1:59.0

So in that instance, it's just increasing by 10 uniformly.

2:04.0

Hold on, I'm writing this all down in teeny tiny print and a spiral inside a speckled notebook.

2:10.0

You can see why QAnon goes crazy trying to discern what secret codes and combinations might be present in the President's speech.

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