Whoever Cheats Hardest Wins with Rick Wilson

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) joins Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) to talk about how we’ve got political nuclear winter, just in time for Christmas. The Impeachment process has not gone… the best. That we can all agree on. Rick and Ana dive into why, and why you should perhaps not cut deals with a racist crook. Mr. Wilson delivers a heartfelt appeal for voter outreach. It’s not as bleak as it could have been. Thanks to our sponsor: Ritual’s Essentials have the nutrients most of us don’t get enough of from food—all in their clean, absorbable forms. No shady additives or ingredients that can do more harm to your body than good. Two easy-to-take capsules provide nine nutrients you need to support a strong foundation for your health. Better health doesn’t happen overnight, and right now Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first three months! Visit ritual.com/FRIENDS to start your ritual today.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These. Today, I have a friend like
0:10.2	this. Rick Wilson, former practitioner of the Dark Arts, still a practitioner of the
0:14.8	Dark Arts, but on our side this time, Rick, how are you?
0:19.5	I am well, thank you. How are you enjoying the, how are you enjoying the pre-Christmas
0:23.5	season?
0:25.0	We know we could sit here and make small talk. And it would, it would be kind of funny
0:29.5	in a meta way to just be like, oh, you know, it's no today. And like, what do you want
0:33.9	for Christmas? And, right. But the world burns around us.
0:38.4	Well, yeah, that's the, it's the burning. It's the burning.
0:41.3	Well, see if radioactive fire rises on all sides.
0:44.1	Yes. So, Rick, I am watching the Democrats handle this impeachment thing.
0:52.5	Yes. And I, I was pro impeachment. I still think, I mean, the mother fucker should,
0:59.7	should be in PhD, he committed crimes. But I don't think this is going great.
1:07.7	Well, I got a lot of blowback from Democratic leaning folks and Democratic leaning friends.
1:14.4	Um, this week for an article I wrote in the Daily Beast, where I said, essentially, I
1:19.3	don't think this is going like y'all thought it was going to go. And they, they all accuse
1:22.9	me of being, oh, you're just a Republican at heart. You're trying to just, no, no, no,
1:27.9	no. I hate Donald Trump. And my hatred of him has nothing to do with it. But, but this
1:34.8	is the one shot you get to impeach him, the one bite of the apple. And you better do it
1:40.8	right. And you better not do any fucking thing else while you're doing it. Yeah. And the
1:45.1	fact that they went to the White House with a trade bill, and now they're talking about prescription
1:49.7	drugs and all this other stuff, you know, as I always say, an election is a referendum on the
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