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Grifters, Clinton, and the Death of Shame
from America's Election Headquarters · #121
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
1 minTim muses on how modern grifting has gone mainstream and lost its old whimsical charm, tracing a decline in shame and accountability back through Clinton's denials, Iraq WMD lies, and Catholic Church cover-ups.
- 48:51Huxters and grifters have invaded the political sphere.
- 49:09Old grifters used to have a whimsical, romantic quality to them before it all went mainstream.
- 49:31You can't debase yourself in a society that doesn't have any standards or values.
- 49:47Clinton refusing to admit what he did marked a turning point in American shame.
- 50:00We all knew the WMDs were fake, the Church was lying, torture was happening — a cascade of revealed lies.