Jane Coaston: Trump's Racism Notches Another Win
6/26/20261 hr 11 min
The "eating the cats and dogs" blood libel worked so well that SCOTUS agreed to end humanitarian protections for Haitians. Justice Alito, who complained about the way Italian-Americans were depicted in "The Sopranos" just couldn't see any racism in Trump's repeated disparagement of Haiti or its immigrants. By the way, Megyn Kelly: You didn't do anything to build this country. And while JD thinks NIxon's Watergate crimes are now no big deal, the federal government just sentenced an American to 30 years in prison for moving anarchist zines out of his home. Plus, Jane's nostalgia theory explains why Vanilla Ice thinks the early 90s were the best era, Usha has emerged as a comedy queen, the white male obsession with Caitlin Clark, and the men who can't quit blaming the 19th Amendment for the country's ills.
Jane Coaston joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
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First 90 secondsJacob Goldstein0:00
Hey, it's Jacob Goldstein from Business History. In our new series, American Genius, we tell the stories of three great writers who changed the way business works in America. Our first episode is about Benjamin Franklin, who, among many other things, was a bestselling business writer. Take a listen. He's writing this much later in his life, consciously creating this image of himself. And I do wanna emphasize how unusual this model is at the time, this self-made man myth, because you don't wanna be self-made. It's low class to be self-made. You know, this idea that we have today is the opposite, right? And it comes from Franklin. Today, there is the derisive term nepo baby.
Speaker 20:45
Well, exactly right. And these days, if you are a billionaire, you had better have a Benjamin Franklin story about starting in a garage, coming up with the idea from nothing.
Jacob Goldstein0:56
And here is Benjamin Franklin inventing it right before our eyes. This has been brought to you by Odoo. To listen to more of our American Genius series, listen to Business History. New episodes release every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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