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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House joins Katie and Matt to discuss the Democratic presidential candidates, plus a conversation about the relationship between Op-Ed writers and their critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Our Sponsors: * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/USEFUL for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out Mint Mobile and use my code mintmobile.com/USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.mintmobile.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/useful for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm your host Katie Halper. I'm Matt Taiyabi.
0:10.6	And we're really excited to be talking to Will Maniker today, one of the hosts of
0:14.3	Chappell Trap House. It's gonna be really funny. Yeah. And we're back and we're...
0:18.3	The viewer can't see this but we're on a clock now. Yeah. The victim has come from what we love
0:22.4	Useful Idiots but just less of it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. This is shorter, Useful Idiots.
0:27.3	Yeah. Yeah. Less Useful Idiots. You're right. So just to tie up some loose ends from a couple of
0:31.6	shows ago we talked about merch and during the show I ordered some Trump drinking
0:36.6	straws because liberal paper straws suck. So we got them and you're actually using one right now.
0:41.3	So we'll recycle it though. We'll recycle it. So four food groups are only four
0:46.1	stuars in the universe. There's Republican suck, Democrat suck isn't that weird isn't that horrible.
0:50.0	I guess we should start. Republican suck this week. Jim Jordan wrote a letter, the Republican
0:56.0	to Elijah Cummings to the House Oversight Committee complaining basically, this is a classic
1:02.0	example of how how things spin out of control in the press. Basically he wrote a letter to Elijah
1:07.1	Cummings worrying that certain congressional lawmakers had traveled to Mexico and basically the
1:13.2	implication was that people like Texas Congresswoman Veronica Escobar had traveled to Mexico and had
1:19.8	given instructions to people down on the border as to how to evade US customs and border security.
1:27.9	And so he writes his letter and part of the letter asks whether or not the this democratic
1:33.6	congressional coalition was quote unquote coaching migrants to get past security but within like 10
1:39.7	minutes that story turned into tweets from people like Jenny Beth Martin who is the co-founder of
1:46.6	Tea Party podcasts and the the the the tweets says elected officials coaching migrants on how to
1:52.9	exploit US laws. In other words, you pose a question in the letter but then like within a you know
1:58.5	a couple of iterations that turns into a fact that the Democrats went down there and they were
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