News Brief: Biden Quits, Harris Rises

I Don't Speak German

IDSG

Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's Joever! But there's no way to pun 'Kamala Harris' with 'beginning'. There just isn't. So we're probably fucked, as usual.

In another News Brief episode, hot on the heels of the last one for some unfathomable reason, Daniel and Jack - both mired in mixed feelings - chat about Biden quitting the 2024 Presidential race, Joe 'cheese pizza' Biden himself, the immediate 'annointing' of Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement on the Dem ticket, the Dems being effective (if cynical) for once, Trump (again), the assassination attempt (again), J.D. "couch and/or dolphin fucker" Vance (again), Project 2025, some of the Right's first attempts to find a line of attack on Harris...

All that junk.

P.S. Jack only just realised he unwittingly plagiarised the term 'News Brief' from the Citations Needed podcast. Please don't sue. And if you do, sue Daniel.

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0:00.0	In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate,
0:04.0	and equally important groups, the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys
0:08.6	who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. Here we talk about the far right, their fellow travelers and what they say to each other when they think we're not listening.
0:26.2	The show is hosted by Daniel Harper and me Jack Graham.
0:29.7	We're both he, him.
0:31.2	Be aware, we cover difficult, sometimes nasty subject matter, so content warnings
0:35.8	always apply.
0:36.8	Okay and welcome back to I don't speak German, it's another news brief episode and shit. and
0:45.0	it's been, it's another news brief episode and shit they say 24 hours is a long time in politics and it's been it's been more than 24 hours since we spoke but it feels like it's been a lot more than 24 hours since the last news brief episode.
0:54.8	Daniel, how the hell are you out there?
0:56.8	I'm making it. I'm just been, you know, kind of perusing Twitter more than I have in a while, but you know that's just the nature of any election year really and and you know this election year ten times as much because well, you know, the last episode of these we did was for the Trump assassination attempt slash the J.D. Vance nomination, VP pick by Trump, and boy, that feels like last year by the standards of what's happened since then.
1:29.4	So things, things, you know, it turns out, it turns out the Democratic Party can actually get things done when it means, you know, maintaining Citrus, a power base, you know.
1:39.4	Well, I think, I think Lenin said there are days when decades happen and been feeling a little bit like that lately with American politics
1:46.4	Definitely definitely it kind of rhymes doesn't it the last episode as you say was the Trump assassination attempt in the naming of
1:53.9	JD Vance as the as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate and I don't know it feels
2:01.7	a funny sort of way like Joe Biden's announcement that he wouldn't stand in the election.
2:08.6	And it's only like a hundred days away, isn't it?
2:10.7	Yeah.
2:11.7	Followed by Kamala Harris's swift presumptive nomination.
2:15.9	I mean she's got all the delegates that she needs now for conference to be named so she
2:20.3	effectively is already the nominee.
2:22.1	And then it feels like it kind of rhymes.
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