2020

Still Processing

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Remember that beer test? It’s not enough. That’s why this election season, we bring you: Still Processing’s Rubric for Leadership and Democratic Excellence. Discussed this week:Astead Herndon, Jon Caramanica and Jon Pareles. "What Do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates?" (The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2019)Clara Guibourg and Helen Briggs. "Climate change: Which vegan milk is best?" (BBC News, Feb. 22, 2019)The AP reporter Alexandra Jaffe’s post on Twitter that Senator Kamala Harris drinks oat milkMatt Flegenheimer and Sydney Ember. "How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff" (The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2019)Carl Zimmer. "Elizabeth Warren Has a Native American Ancestor. Does That Make Her Native American?" (The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2018)Adrienne Keene, Rebecca Nagle and Joseph M. Pierce. "Syllabus: Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee Citizenship, and DNA Testing" (Critical Ethnic Studies, Dec. 19, 2018)Thomas Kaplan. "Elizabeth Warren Apologizes at Native American Forum: ‘I Have Listened and I Have Learned.’" (The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2019)Matt Stieb. "Where Does Marianne Williamson Actually Stand on Vaccines?" (NYMag, Aug. 4, 2019)Glenn Thrush. "Obama and Biden’s Relationship Looks Rosy. It Wasn’t Always That Simple." (The New York Times, Aug. 16, 2019)

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0:00.0	What do you do about the hundreds of millions of guns already out there?
0:04.5	Would you support a 70% individual marginal tax rate?
0:07.5	What would you do to ensure that women are paid fairly in this country?
0:10.7	And does the federal government have to play a role in dealing with it?
0:14.0	How would you address income inequality?
0:16.1	Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor?
0:19.7	Would you have planned cover abortion?
0:21.7	How have you done for black and Latino assets?
0:24.1	How is this going to help farmers impacted by climate?
0:27.4	What would you actually do with these families?
0:29.8	Will they be detained?
0:30.8	Why are you picking winners and losers?
0:32.3	Yes, no, or pass.
0:37.0	So we've been listening to y'all talk about 2020 for the last few months.
0:41.0	The debates, the sound bites, the scandals.
0:43.8	And I gotta say, I'm a little frustrated.
0:46.0	Yeah, because we think they're asking the wrong questions of these candidates.
0:51.0	It's like they're trying to get a reaction.
0:53.0	Right.
0:53.5	But I'm trying to get a president.
0:56.1	So all this is reminding me of this qualification we have that we tend to call the beer test.
1:04.4	It's this idea that the only thing that you need to figure out
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