Why Stop The Gravy Train Of Joy?

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Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kamala and Tim are in their honeymoon period as a presidential ticket. They are brat. They are joy. They are vibes. They are happy. Why the hell would they throw away all this momentum, just so they could tell Americans where they stand on issues that matter? It's a good question, and they better come up with the right answer or suffer the fate of candidates who hide from the press in their Delaware bunkers. Capisce? Also on the show, a double-interview day. Mo Rocca on his new book about old folks, Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs. Plus, Kiki Friedman on her online abortion-care company, Hey Jane. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, August 8, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:06.7	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:08.4	You know, I always thought that a more condensed election
0:15.0	schedule will be more conducive to democracy.
0:16.0	I look at other democracies and I envy them.
0:17.0	In Canada, the election period lasts from 37 to 51 days in Argentina.
0:22.0	You can only start advertising 60 days before an election
0:25.6	and the official campaign itself can only start 25 days before it we just saw in France.
0:30.1	They have really quick elections two weeks long and the UK elections are quite condensed as well
0:36.3	although everyone knows they're coming in America the answer is
0:40.7	Technically forever someone could announce their run for 28 right now.
0:45.0	Donald Trump was an official candidate for the election to be held on November 5th,
0:49.8	2024.
0:51.0	He officially declared that he wanted to win that election
0:53.8	November 5th 2024 on November 15th
0:57.8	2022.
0:59.4	So now that we have a de facto condensed election.
1:04.0	I should be pretty happy, right?
1:06.0	I'm not because I'm cranky.
1:08.9	No, it's because in all these other countries
1:11.0	when they have short elections,
1:12.1	they know they have short elections.
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