Peter Rothpletz
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8,118 appearances
89 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Feb
Peter Rothpletz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Please, please.
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I'm going to get the stat slightly wrong because I didn't study this before the show, but it's a talking point I've tossed out a few times before.
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while I've been on.
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Of all the incumbent politicians who faced re-election in 2024, I want to say it was either 68 or 78 percent who lost.
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Which is not to say – and I know this seems circuitous, but bear with me.
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It's not to say that racism and sexism didn't play a huge reason in why Kamala Harris is not president right now.
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They did, 100 percent, 1,000 percent.
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But what I mean to suggest is that global inflationary forces were so severe and were so damaging to every incumbent politician and every incumbent government globally –
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that she was kind of doomed from the start.
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And then when you tie in the Biden debate and the whole Jake Tapper original sin of it all and all that conversation, she literally had not just one hand tied behind her back.
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I would argue she had both hands and one of her feet tied behind her back.
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And what did she still manage to do?
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She avoided what, according to internal White House data that Biden's people had that we now know of,
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She avoided like a 1980, 1984 style wipeout that would have kept Democrats out of any real legitimate power for like 20 years.
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So all this to say I think Kamala Harris is a fucking badass.
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She is a hero.
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Yes, we're not in a good place right now, but if she had not stepped in to run, we would be in a far, far more dire place.
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She deserves her flowers.
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I said at the time, if she wants the California governor's mansion, she deserves it.
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She does not.
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