These Walz Could Talk | Political Gabfest

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Juliette Kayyem of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to discuss the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz; Google’s search monopoly and antitrust trial loss; and the guilty-plea deals in three 9/11 cases undone by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Here are this week’s chatters:
Juliette: NBC: Paris 2024 and International Olympic Committee: Olympic Channel
Emily: International Olympic Committee: Table tennis rules, scoring system and all you need to know; Jake Rossen for Mental Floss: Why Do Some Olympic Athletes Wear Paper Numbers?; International Olympic Committee: Sports Swap; and Maia Hjelmar for GQ Australia: 16 Olympic athletes who succeeded in more than one sport
David: Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson in The New York Times: Ten Meter Tower
Listener chatter from Fraser Ronald in Ottawa, Canada: Ari Berkowitz for Scientific American: Is Your Nervous System a Democracy or a Dictatorship?
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and Juliette talk about RFK Jr. and The Bear. See Clare Malone for The New Yorker: What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?
In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Roland Allen about his book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.
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[@humanhelp3969]

Love the Blush 😳 talk.

[@MsTranthihai71]

Thanks ❤

[@lollyschiffman2569]

David’s question about the difference in looks between Harris and Walz was a stupid, sexiest question. The highly accomplished and educated women should have shut that down immediately but instead giggled and instead talked about makeup tips. Just nonsense , continues to propagate the trivialization of women and no longer acceptable to burden women with this kind of inane judgement.
Issues are important, cognitive function is important, accomplishments are important, values are important, policy is important. Inclusivity is important. Harris and Walz, irrespective of their appearances, excel on those.
The sexism and ageism expressed by all the speakers was shocking and inappropriate.

[@emiiii]

These people have been pissing me off with their out of touch commentary since 2016 🤦🏻