March 24, 2024
Bill Maher Slams Dems, Instagram Limits Politics, & Biden's Secret App Weapon
In this episode of the Ballot Podcast, we dive into Bill Maher's scathing critique of Democrats' identity politics obsession, Instagram's new policy limiting political content, and the Biden campaign's app designed to reach voters through friends and...
In this episode of the Ballot Podcast, we dive into Bill Maher's scathing critique of Democrats' identity politics obsession, Instagram's new policy limiting political content, and the Biden campaign's app designed to reach voters through friends and family. Join us for a humorous take on the week's top political stories, as we explore the ever-changing landscape of political messaging and voter outreach. Tune in for a lighthearted look at the serious business of politics!
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Calarogu Shark Media. Welcome back to
another edition of Ballot, your weekly dose
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00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.359
of politics minus the politics, and
boy do we have a jam packed show
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00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.719
for you today. First up,
Bill Maher is calling out Democrats for their
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00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.760
obsession with identity politics. He says
it's time for them to move on and
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focus on issues that actually matter to
voters. Groundbreaking stuff I know. Next,
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we'll dive into Instagram's new no politics
policy. That's right, the app
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that's responsible for countless heated debates in
the comments section is now saying thanks,
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but no thanks to unsolicited political content. It's like they finally realize that no
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one's mind has ever been changed by
an all caps rant on social media.
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And finally, we'll take a look
at the Biden campaign's secret weapon, an
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app that turns volunteers into digital door
knockers. They're hoping it'll help them connect
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with hard to reach voters, but
let's be real, the only thing harder
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to reach than a swing voter is
a teenager. When it's time to do
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the dishes, so grab your favorite
politically neutral beverage, settle in, and
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let's dive into the wild world of
politics. Donald Trump's lawyers ask the Supreme
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Court to rule that he has absolute
immunity from criminal charges stemming from his attempts
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to subvert the twenty twenty election.
Jimmy Kimmel joked that Trump also wants immunity
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from chlamydia, just in case.
His lawyers told the court denial of criminal
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immunity would incapacitate every future president with
de facto blackmail in extortion while in office
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and condemn him to years of post
office trauma at the hands of political opponents.
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Which sounds bad, right, And
yet somehow we've had forty four presidents
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before him that never happened to any
of them except for this one guy.
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A president could make some seriously crazy
stuff happen. If you're dumb and arrogant,
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you commit the crimes yourself on television, then you have a problem.
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Then you have to beg the Supreme
Court for something prepossible, like immunity.
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Turns out, the guy who bragged
to Billy Bush he can do whatever he
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wants thinks he should be allowed to
do whatever he wants. Trump is said
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to be considering a new hire Paul
Manifort, one of his former campaign advisors
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who went to prison for tax and
bank fraud and was pardoned by Trump in
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twenty twenty. Jimmy Fallon joked,
I think it's actually a good idea.
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Trump needs an advisor like Paul Manifort
to tell him not to hire guys like
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Paul Manifort. Bill Maher, the
guy who makes a living roasting both sides,
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just served the Democrats a big steaming
plate of hard truths. Apparently it's
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time for them to move on from
identity politics because shocker, it's not working.
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Mar pointed out how the Dems are
losing minority voters faster than Rudy Giuliani's
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hair dye running down his face.
I mean, when Chuck Schumer and Nancy
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Pelosi threw on some Kente cloth,
I don't think a single voter was like,
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damn. Those two must have some
powerful ties to Ghana. They've got
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my vote. Mar dropped some truth
bombs, quoting black select ebs like Idris
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Elba and Morgan Freeman, who basically
said, can we stop obsessing over race?
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I mean, when the guy who
played God is telling you to chill
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on the identity stuff, maybe listen. Mar said, we're all jelly roll
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now, we're sloppy, complicated and
contradictory. Two thirds of Republican voters support
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weed legalization, and forty one percent
of Democrats own or live with someone who
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owns a gun. Miss Marvel is
Pakistani and the winner of the last two
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NBA Dunk contests is white. The
new Captain America is black, and Spider
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Man is black and Puerto Rican,
just like Ai George Washington. Latinos make
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up half of the Border Patrol,
and the name of the coolest black dude
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on the planet is Lenny Kravitz.
RuPaul has a ranch in Wyoming that does
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fracking somehow. The leader of the
Village People was straight. The leader of
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the Proud Boys isn't an old white
guy. It's Enrique Tario, an Afro
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Cuban. Caitlyn Jenner is a pro
Trump transwoman who supports a ban on trans
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athletes competing in women's sports. Our
black president was half white and our black
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vice president is half Asian. My
point is, look, you're still building
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your politics around slicing and dicing people
into these fixed categories. Democrats need to
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get the memo that you can't win
elections anymore by automatically assuming you're going to
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get every voter who's not these guys, mar said while showing a photo of
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white men in suits from the nineteen
fifties. The more you obsess over identity,
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the more you ignore the bread and
butter issues that win and lose elections.
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The real issue is class, not
race, and the real gap is
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the diploma divide and the real future
of the party and maybe democracy depends on
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Democrats figuring that out well, folks. Looks like Instagram is putting the keybosh
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on unsolicited political content. Yep,
the app that's known for perfectly curated brunch
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picks and thirst traps is now saying
hard pass to proactively pushing politics. If
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you're the type who loves a good
political throwdown in the comments section, don't
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worry. You can still get your
fix, but you'll have to put in
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a little effort. Head over to
your settings, navigate to the content preferences
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section, and flip the switch on
political content. It's like telling Instagram,
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bring on the heated debates and questionable
memes baby. Instagram's head honcho Adam Mussi
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claims this move is all about preserving
the ability for people to choose to interact
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with political content. Translation, they're
tired of getting blamed for your uncle's unhinged
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rants about the government putting microchips in
the vaccines. Meta spokesperson Danny Lever wants
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to make it crystal clear that this
change does not impact posts from accounts people
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choose to follow. So if you're
actively seeking out political hot takes, knock
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yourself out. But for the rest
of us just trying to scroll in peace.
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Instagram's got our backs. At the
end of the day. Instagram's new
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approach to political content is like putting
a no soliciting sign on your front door.
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Sure, the passionate canvassers can still
ring your bell, but only if
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you've given them the green light.
As for everyone else, it's nothing but
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puppies, sunsets, and influencers hawking
teeth whitening kits. From here on out,
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Biden's campaign is getting creative in their
quest to connect with hard to reach
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voters. They're testing out a smartphone
app called Reach, which is like a
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matchmaker for your contacts and the Democratic
Party's voter database. It's a bit like
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setting up your friends on a blind
date with Joe Biden. Here's how it
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works. Volunteers download the app,
give it access to their address books,
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and voila, the app matches up
their contacts with the party's info on voting
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history. Then the app feeds the
volunteers a steady diet of pro Biden content
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that they can personalize and text directly
to their unsuspecting friends. Of course,
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there's always the creating an echo chamber
picture a room full of hardcore volunteers sending
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each other the same message back and
forth, like a game of political ping
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pong. But the Biden campaign is
all in on this new approach. They
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say people are tuned out and trust
in institutions is about as low as Rudy
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Giuliani's credibility, So the key is
to get friends and family to do the
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talking. It's like a political version
of a multi level marketing scheme, but
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instead of selling essential oils, they're
peddling hope and change. Only time will
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tell if this app will be the
secret weapon that helps Biden secure the White
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House or if it'll go down in
history as the political equivalent of the Yo
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App. But one thing's for sure. In the age of information overload and
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political burnout, campaigns have to get
creative if they want to break through the
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noise. Well, folks, that's
all the political shenanigans we have time for
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today to recap. Bill maher thinks
Democrats need to ditch the identity politics.
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Instagram is putting politics in time out, and the Iiden campaign is using an
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app to slide into voters dms.
But the real question is will any of
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this actually make a difference come November? Will voters be swayed by a slick
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app or will they just keep doom
scrolling past the political posts in search of
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cat videos. Only time will tell
one thing's for sure, though, No
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matter how much we try to avoid
it, politics has a way of worming
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its way into every aspect of our
lives. It's like that annoying song that
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gets stuck in your head, except
instead of humming along, you're arguing with
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your relatives at Thanksgiving dinner. But
hey, that's why we're here to help
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you navigate the crazy world of politics
with a smile on your face and a
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spring in your step. So until
next week, remember, when life gives
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you political lemons, make lemonade and
then spike it with something strong. Thanks
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for tuning into Ballot, your favorite
source for political news with a side of
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snark. Always vote with your heart
and maybe a little bit with your funny
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bone too,
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Calarogu Shark Media. Welcome back to
another edition of Ballot, your weekly dose
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00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.359
of politics minus the politics, and
boy do we have a jam packed show
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00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.719
for you today. First up,
Bill Maher is calling out Democrats for their
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00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.760
obsession with identity politics. He says
it's time for them to move on and
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00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:29.920
focus on issues that actually matter to
voters. Groundbreaking stuff I know. Next,
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we'll dive into Instagram's new no politics
policy. That's right, the app
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00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:38.920
that's responsible for countless heated debates in
the comments section is now saying thanks,
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but no thanks to unsolicited political content. It's like they finally realize that no
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one's mind has ever been changed by
an all caps rant on social media.
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And finally, we'll take a look
at the Biden campaign's secret weapon, an
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app that turns volunteers into digital door
knockers. They're hoping it'll help them connect
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00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.759
with hard to reach voters, but
let's be real, the only thing harder
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00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.679
to reach than a swing voter is
a teenager. When it's time to do
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the dishes, so grab your favorite
politically neutral beverage, settle in, and
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let's dive into the wild world of
politics. Donald Trump's lawyers ask the Supreme
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Court to rule that he has absolute
immunity from criminal charges stemming from his attempts
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to subvert the twenty twenty election.
Jimmy Kimmel joked that Trump also wants immunity
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from chlamydia, just in case.
His lawyers told the court denial of criminal
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immunity would incapacitate every future president with
de facto blackmail in extortion while in office
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and condemn him to years of post
office trauma at the hands of political opponents.
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Which sounds bad, right, And
yet somehow we've had forty four presidents
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before him that never happened to any
of them except for this one guy.
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A president could make some seriously crazy
stuff happen. If you're dumb and arrogant,
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you commit the crimes yourself on television, then you have a problem.
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Then you have to beg the Supreme
Court for something prepossible, like immunity.
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Turns out, the guy who bragged
to Billy Bush he can do whatever he
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wants thinks he should be allowed to
do whatever he wants. Trump is said
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to be considering a new hire Paul
Manifort, one of his former campaign advisors
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who went to prison for tax and
bank fraud and was pardoned by Trump in
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twenty twenty. Jimmy Fallon joked,
I think it's actually a good idea.
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Trump needs an advisor like Paul Manifort
to tell him not to hire guys like
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Paul Manifort. Bill Maher, the
guy who makes a living roasting both sides,
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just served the Democrats a big steaming
plate of hard truths. Apparently it's
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time for them to move on from
identity politics because shocker, it's not working.
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Mar pointed out how the Dems are
losing minority voters faster than Rudy Giuliani's
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hair dye running down his face.
I mean, when Chuck Schumer and Nancy
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Pelosi threw on some Kente cloth,
I don't think a single voter was like,
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damn. Those two must have some
powerful ties to Ghana. They've got
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my vote. Mar dropped some truth
bombs, quoting black select ebs like Idris
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Elba and Morgan Freeman, who basically
said, can we stop obsessing over race?
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I mean, when the guy who
played God is telling you to chill
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on the identity stuff, maybe listen. Mar said, we're all jelly roll
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now, we're sloppy, complicated and
contradictory. Two thirds of Republican voters support
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weed legalization, and forty one percent
of Democrats own or live with someone who
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owns a gun. Miss Marvel is
Pakistani and the winner of the last two
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NBA Dunk contests is white. The
new Captain America is black, and Spider
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Man is black and Puerto Rican,
just like Ai George Washington. Latinos make
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up half of the Border Patrol,
and the name of the coolest black dude
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on the planet is Lenny Kravitz.
RuPaul has a ranch in Wyoming that does
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fracking somehow. The leader of the
Village People was straight. The leader of
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the Proud Boys isn't an old white
guy. It's Enrique Tario, an Afro
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Cuban. Caitlyn Jenner is a pro
Trump transwoman who supports a ban on trans
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athletes competing in women's sports. Our
black president was half white and our black
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vice president is half Asian. My
point is, look, you're still building
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your politics around slicing and dicing people
into these fixed categories. Democrats need to
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get the memo that you can't win
elections anymore by automatically assuming you're going to
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get every voter who's not these guys, mar said while showing a photo of
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white men in suits from the nineteen
fifties. The more you obsess over identity,
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the more you ignore the bread and
butter issues that win and lose elections.
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The real issue is class, not
race, and the real gap is
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the diploma divide and the real future
of the party and maybe democracy depends on
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Democrats figuring that out well, folks. Looks like Instagram is putting the keybosh
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on unsolicited political content. Yep,
the app that's known for perfectly curated brunch
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00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:06.319
picks and thirst traps is now saying
hard pass to proactively pushing politics. If
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you're the type who loves a good
political throwdown in the comments section, don't
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worry. You can still get your
fix, but you'll have to put in
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a little effort. Head over to
your settings, navigate to the content preferences
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section, and flip the switch on
political content. It's like telling Instagram,
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bring on the heated debates and questionable
memes baby. Instagram's head honcho Adam Mussi
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claims this move is all about preserving
the ability for people to choose to interact
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with political content. Translation, they're
tired of getting blamed for your uncle's unhinged
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rants about the government putting microchips in
the vaccines. Meta spokesperson Danny Lever wants
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to make it crystal clear that this
change does not impact posts from accounts people
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choose to follow. So if you're
actively seeking out political hot takes, knock
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yourself out. But for the rest
of us just trying to scroll in peace.
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Instagram's got our backs. At the
end of the day. Instagram's new
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approach to political content is like putting
a no soliciting sign on your front door.
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Sure, the passionate canvassers can still
ring your bell, but only if
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you've given them the green light.
As for everyone else, it's nothing but
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puppies, sunsets, and influencers hawking
teeth whitening kits. From here on out,
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Biden's campaign is getting creative in their
quest to connect with hard to reach
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voters. They're testing out a smartphone
app called Reach, which is like a
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matchmaker for your contacts and the Democratic
Party's voter database. It's a bit like
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setting up your friends on a blind
date with Joe Biden. Here's how it
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works. Volunteers download the app,
give it access to their address books,
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and voila, the app matches up
their contacts with the party's info on voting
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history. Then the app feeds the
volunteers a steady diet of pro Biden content
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that they can personalize and text directly
to their unsuspecting friends. Of course,
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there's always the creating an echo chamber
picture a room full of hardcore volunteers sending
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each other the same message back and
forth, like a game of political ping
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pong. But the Biden campaign is
all in on this new approach. They
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say people are tuned out and trust
in institutions is about as low as Rudy
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Giuliani's credibility, So the key is
to get friends and family to do the
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talking. It's like a political version
of a multi level marketing scheme, but
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instead of selling essential oils, they're
peddling hope and change. Only time will
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tell if this app will be the
secret weapon that helps Biden secure the White
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House or if it'll go down in
history as the political equivalent of the Yo
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App. But one thing's for sure. In the age of information overload and
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political burnout, campaigns have to get
creative if they want to break through the
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noise. Well, folks, that's
all the political shenanigans we have time for
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today to recap. Bill maher thinks
Democrats need to ditch the identity politics.
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Instagram is putting politics in time out, and the Iiden campaign is using an
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app to slide into voters dms.
But the real question is will any of
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this actually make a difference come November? Will voters be swayed by a slick
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app or will they just keep doom
scrolling past the political posts in search of
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cat videos. Only time will tell
one thing's for sure, though, No
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matter how much we try to avoid
it, politics has a way of worming
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its way into every aspect of our
lives. It's like that annoying song that
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gets stuck in your head, except
instead of humming along, you're arguing with
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your relatives at Thanksgiving dinner. But
hey, that's why we're here to help
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you navigate the crazy world of politics
with a smile on your face and a
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spring in your step. So until
next week, remember, when life gives
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you political lemons, make lemonade and
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