Will Judaism Make Josh Shapiro The Unchosen Person?

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Mike Pesca

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Kamala Harris is on the verge of a Vice Presidential choice, and we will evaluate the arguments against the Jewish Governor of Pennsylvania over the perception that his Judaism is a liability. Plus, more on the Olympic Boxers who are women but also did have size and strentgh benefits of testosterone that their fellow competitors did not. Also on the show, Washington And Lee University professors Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg discuss their new book, Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World. 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 Friday, August 2nd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.0	Will Josh Shapiro be Kamala Harris's vice president.
0:13.2	The always straightforward John King of CNN lays out a concern.
0:16.7	Well, he's certainly under consideration.
0:18.4	I know that from key Harris allies.
0:20.0	He's a first term governor.
0:21.3	He's Jewish.
0:21.9	There could be some risk in putting him on the ticket, but certainly some of our
0:24.9	voters here in Pennsylvania said, hey, we like Governor Shapiro.
0:27.0	I'll give him a look.
0:28.0	Harris is Jewish.
0:29.2	She went to a Jewish day school.
0:30.4	He keeps kosher kitchen.
0:31.8	So while he hasn't said much more about his
0:33.8	Israel policy than any other non-federal Democratic official, it's likely he's
0:38.5	pro-Israel. He might, I would say given that he's a liberal American he might find great fault with
0:44.9	the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu but generally doesn't want us to curtail
0:48.9	funding to Israel he probably thinks Hamas is a terrorist organization needs to be defeated.
0:54.4	Now if you hear or want to hear a leftist public intellectual make the case in a leftist forum
1:00.1	against Shapiro as the nominee, I give you Professor Lamont Hill on Democracy Now.
1:05.6	He's warned state employees here in Pennsylvania
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