Injustice League: Trump and Badenoch recruit their minions

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store here! Trump has started to appoint his evil minions to his cabinet – and we take a breath to look at Badenoch’s new gang back home too. Andy Kroll, investigative reporter for ProPublica and author of A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy, joins the panel to talk through the US side of things, and Dorian, Jonn and Zoe get into the UK news. And, in the Extra Bit for Subscribers, how do you deal with the emotional impact of losing an election? (PS. We recorded this on Wednesday afternoon at 4.30pm, so we were just before the Matt Gaetz news...) We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow And, we’re on BlueSky now too. Follow here: https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social This episode is sponsored by Proton Pass, to find out more visit http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma Kennedy - listen here. Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Zoë Grünewald and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Oh God What Now, the podcast that has now outlasted four prime ministers and one Archbishop of Canterbury.
0:17.0	I'm Doreenlinsky. On today's show, Donald Trump has begun appointing his minions to cabinet posts,
0:22.4	who's made the cut, and realistically, what can they get done?
0:25.6	Andy Crowell is an investigative reporter from ProPublica and joins the panel to get into it all.
0:30.8	Plus, back home, Kemi Badernock has selected her shadowy cabinet.
0:34.5	What can we expect from the newly refurbished opposition?
0:38.9	And in the extra bit for supporters, Donald Trump's victory was a giant body blow to his opponents, including us. After the
0:44.0	initial shock and despair, how are we managing? Let's meet today's panel. First, Westminster editor for
0:49.5	the lead, Zoe Goodenvold. Hi, Zoe. Hello. So migration from Twitter to blue sky, which people
0:54.1	we've been talking about for ages, seems to have reached a tipping point since the election. Follow
0:58.1	accounts booming. Just the other day, it was America's most popular app. Meanwhile, Twitter
1:02.9	deactivations have tripled within a week and The Guardian just quit posting altogether.
1:08.2	With Ulham Musk becoming Trump's right-hand man, could this finally be the end of Twitter's
1:12.7	dominance of the discourse?
1:14.4	Yeah, it's really interesting.
1:15.7	I mean, I went to bed last night with 7,000 followers on Blue Sky, and I woke up with 11,000
1:21.2	this morning, which was extraordinary to me, because that's more than I ever had on X.
1:25.3	So clearly there is this mass.
1:26.5	Oh, really?
1:27.1	Yeah, clearly there is this mass of people moving over to Blue Sky. And I think that is in part
1:33.6	due to some of the functionality to Blue Sky. There is this thing called Starter Pax where you can just
1:37.8	go and click, you know, someone's made them. They've added all their favorite Politico's in and
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