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Jonathan V. Last

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2407 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

who called Emil Bove, the Justice Department staffer, a henchman, saying, we can't promote a henchman. He says, like, how can you, is this the term we're using when we're calling him a henchman? Is that fair? And I said, like, you're right. When you're in the war, right, you got to call a hench person or person experiencing hench. That's the real nice walk right term.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

So, you know, in a way there are all these parallels, but the language policing and the conscious obsessions with race. They like to claim sometimes that we're the race neutral people, but they're not race neutral. They're very, very conscious of race.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

So, you know, in a way there are all these parallels, but the language policing and the conscious obsessions with race. They like to claim sometimes that we're the race neutral people, but they're not race neutral. They're very, very conscious of race.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

So, you know, in a way there are all these parallels, but the language policing and the conscious obsessions with race. They like to claim sometimes that we're the race neutral people, but they're not race neutral. They're very, very conscious of race.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I want to give one example of this conscious obsession with race that's really kind of tragic that I want to talk about. Just really quick though for listeners. I did a late night chat with Patrick Gaspard who was on the show a couple weeks ago who was ambassador to South Africa where we kind of went more into the details about what's actually happening in South Africa. So folks,

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I want to give one example of this conscious obsession with race that's really kind of tragic that I want to talk about. Just really quick though for listeners. I did a late night chat with Patrick Gaspard who was on the show a couple weeks ago who was ambassador to South Africa where we kind of went more into the details about what's actually happening in South Africa. So folks,

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I want to give one example of this conscious obsession with race that's really kind of tragic that I want to talk about. Just really quick though for listeners. I did a late night chat with Patrick Gaspard who was on the show a couple weeks ago who was ambassador to South Africa where we kind of went more into the details about what's actually happening in South Africa. So folks,

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

If you want to listen to that, you can go check it out either on YouTube or on the Bulwark Takes feed. Patrick's really, really good. I was noticing this more in my comment section from both the woke left and the woke right. And so I just kind of wanted to weigh in on it because it's such a tragic story. There's a story out of Mississippi, out of Starkville.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

If you want to listen to that, you can go check it out either on YouTube or on the Bulwark Takes feed. Patrick's really, really good. I was noticing this more in my comment section from both the woke left and the woke right. And so I just kind of wanted to weigh in on it because it's such a tragic story. There's a story out of Mississippi, out of Starkville.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

If you want to listen to that, you can go check it out either on YouTube or on the Bulwark Takes feed. Patrick's really, really good. I was noticing this more in my comment section from both the woke left and the woke right. And so I just kind of wanted to weigh in on it because it's such a tragic story. There's a story out of Mississippi, out of Starkville.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

really annoying that the cowbells at the football game, it's very annoying, but it's, it is, it's America in Starkville. Okay. Casper Erickson. Uh, he came from Denmark. Maybe he's being targeted because as part of the pressure campaign against Denmark to give up Greenland, I don't know. He came from Denmark on a cultural exchange program in high school.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

really annoying that the cowbells at the football game, it's very annoying, but it's, it is, it's America in Starkville. Okay. Casper Erickson. Uh, he came from Denmark. Maybe he's being targeted because as part of the pressure campaign against Denmark to give up Greenland, I don't know. He came from Denmark on a cultural exchange program in high school.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

really annoying that the cowbells at the football game, it's very annoying, but it's, it is, it's America in Starkville. Okay. Casper Erickson. Uh, he came from Denmark. Maybe he's being targeted because as part of the pressure campaign against Denmark to give up Greenland, I don't know. He came from Denmark on a cultural exchange program in high school.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

One of these things where you come and do a semester abroad, went to high school in Starkville, uh, He meets an American girl there. They fall in love. He moves back to Denmark. They're pen pals. He comes back. They decide to get married. They have four kids, one on the way. The guy tries to fill out all the firms to become an American citizen. His wife's American. His kids are American.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

One of these things where you come and do a semester abroad, went to high school in Starkville, uh, He meets an American girl there. They fall in love. He moves back to Denmark. They're pen pals. He comes back. They decide to get married. They have four kids, one on the way. The guy tries to fill out all the firms to become an American citizen. His wife's American. His kids are American.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

One of these things where you come and do a semester abroad, went to high school in Starkville, uh, He meets an American girl there. They fall in love. He moves back to Denmark. They're pen pals. He comes back. They decide to get married. They have four kids, one on the way. The guy tries to fill out all the firms to become an American citizen. His wife's American. His kids are American.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I guess 10 years ago, one of the forms he did not fill out. There had been an oversight. He'd had many, many meetings with immigration in the intervening periods where they had not told him about this form that he'd forgot to fill out. He says it happened right after there was a stillbirth of their child. So there was a lot happening in the household. He went in for his immigration checkup.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I guess 10 years ago, one of the forms he did not fill out. There had been an oversight. He'd had many, many meetings with immigration in the intervening periods where they had not told him about this form that he'd forgot to fill out. He says it happened right after there was a stillbirth of their child. So there was a lot happening in the household. He went in for his immigration checkup.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

I guess 10 years ago, one of the forms he did not fill out. There had been an oversight. He'd had many, many meetings with immigration in the intervening periods where they had not told him about this form that he'd forgot to fill out. He says it happened right after there was a stillbirth of their child. So there was a lot happening in the household. He went in for his immigration checkup.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

He's still going through the process like you're supposed to do to become a citizen. The fucking ICE goons shackle him. And they send him to Louisiana. He's in a cell in Natchez now. He's been there for one month awaiting deportation while his pregnant wife is at home with the four kids.