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114: Dahlia Lithwick is BACK!

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Importance of Being Able to Lie and Be Checked

The performance of being able to lie and not caring is like a real cornerstone of how autocrats do it. Every single time he either speaks over her or he reasserts the same lie that she's called him out on what he's actually doing is proving that lying is his superpower and that he doesn't care. It's interesting because when he dismisses the fact finding of a unanimous jury that both found him to be a sexual abuser and a defamer, right? A person who lies under a really high standard,. Like the standard for defamation is almost unmetable and he went ahead and met it. That I think is very profound and true and I can't get my brain to

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