722: The Unreality of Now
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A quick warning. There are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show. If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, this American life.org. Hey, there, America. Can we just get this election over with already? We've had enough excitement, right? More than enough pot twist. The president getting coronavirus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying, the whole first debate, the alleged contents of Hunter Biden's hard drive, which are either totally unconvincing or deeply urgently important, depending on your point of view. We finally got to see the president's tax records after all these years. And it barely seemed to make a dent in anything. militia plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan. And then after that, the president's followers chanted lock her up. The president joking, not joking, told his supporters in North Carolina to go out and try to vote twice. And then after that, the attorney general declared on CNN. To Wolf Blitzer, the voting twice, might actually be legal. I don't know what the law in the particular state said. You can't vote twice. Well, I don't know what the law in the particular state says. And when that vote becomes fine, any state that says you can vote twice. Well, there's some, you know, maybe that you can change your vote up to a particular term. I don't know what the law is. I'm not going to offer it. He was saying, Attorney General William Barr looks amazingly relaxed as he says on this calm. Like nothing's out of the ordinary, nothing to see. He's a law officer watching him. It's hard not to think. Is this really happening? I got that same feeling looking at photos of the president's rallies where even now he's packing people in tons of people with no mass, not following CDC guidelines. He's doing this even after he, his wife, his son, his press secretary, his campaign manager, the chair of the Republican National Committee, White House, housekeeping and military staff, members of the vice president's staff, Stephen Miller, Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks all got coronavirus, even though cases are at an all time high and on the rise. Looking at the not socially distanced crowds, it's like, is this really happening? And now coming up is coming Tuesday. We're either going to have an election with a clear winner or apparently the vote will be contested. A contested election seems so possible because the president keeps saying over and over that he's way ahead in the polls. And they're supposed that we are always seeing on the news saying that he's way behind those are fake.
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