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Episode 436: Outsourcing Empathy

🕑 Added 2018-09-29 05:01:39 +0000 UTC

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25:30 in should skip the Kavanaugh main discussion. And the trump press conference and the Jehova's witness story are, I think, really funny.

Reynold Hall

Can't say as I blame you.

Nicole Ramirez Lambeth

I'm going to be honest, this may be a skip week for me. I see the thumbnail of the Kavanaugh testimony, and I am already bracing for what I'm going to hear. The last several days have been really hard for several of us, men and women alike. I'm having a visceral response of dread just looking at his angry face. I think I might actually lose it if I listened to him too. Is anyone else kinda terrified of feeling emotion right now, because you know you're skating around an absolute emotional breakdown? I don't want my kids to see me cry the way I feel like I need to. I don't want to traumatize them with my own actions. Again, it's just been a hard week. I need a break for a bit.

Tom Hail

Also there was a way to force consensus on a nominee. The filibuster could be used to block a nominee that was too controversial like Kavanaugh and that required a 2/3 vote to break. That died with the Gorsuch/Garland bullshit the the GOP killing that rule.