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Betsy DeVos, Jeff Sessions, and Selective Outrage

from Torching Bridges (with David Angelo) · #31

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They dig into Trump cabinet picks like Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions, arguing the outrage is driven by teachers' unions and inconsistent partisan standards rather than principle.

In this bit11 moments
  • 13:08People were more proud to vote for Hillary than Trump, and people lied in the polls about supporting him.
  • 13:24At shows with 200 people, nobody admits they support Trump, but someone always does.
  • 13:54Being Mexican in Texas is safer than wearing a Trump hat on the New York subway.
  • 14:20Tim considered himself liberal relative to Bush, but his opinions haven't changed—the world around him has.
  • 14:35When Trump said elections are rigged, everyone reflexively denied it, but election rigging is real.
  • 15:23Hillary and the DNC had clear shenanigans like Donna Brazile giving debate questions in advance.
  • 15:45Comedians now feel they have a job to educate people and beat them over the head with activism every day.
  • 16:29Comics were like this with Bush, but went full revolutionary within 48 hours of Trump becoming president.
  • 16:55Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary seems unqualified, but the outrage around her is exaggerated.
  • 17:19The Jeff Sessions racism accusation comes from him supposedly calling someone 'boy,' plus a witness from the 80s who later recanted.
  • 17:50All this stuff with DeVos is so flimsy—why are people so emotionally upset about it?
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Donna BrazilDonald TrumpBetsy DeVosJeff SessionsHillary ClintonAl Franken

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