Interview · moment 5 of 14
Betsy DeVos, Jeff Sessions, and Selective Outrage
from Torching Bridges (with David Angelo) · #31
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5 minGuest
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.
- 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?
Donna BrazilDonald TrumpBetsy DeVosJeff SessionsHillary ClintonAl Franken