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Date: 2023-12-09
We can’t say we were not warned about what is happening in our politics today. In 2016 we were trying to talking and singing songs about what could happen. 7 years later we are living with the fall out. Here are 3 examples of the a conversation, a song, a speech. Where you exposed to any warning signs of what the future would hold?
October 21, 2016 This American Life episode - Seriously
Donald Trump is one of the consequences of the Obama presidency. And we've been talking about how that's probably a thought that's occurred to the president. But, as far as we can tell, he has not spoken about that publicly. And so wondering what his thoughts might be, we decided to try something. We asked a songwriter, Sara Bareilles, to write a song imagining Barack Obama's thoughts on that and on Trump, and we present that now.
Sarah puts out albums of her own, but she also wrote a Broadway show, Waitress, and she invited a Broadway colleague to sing this, Leslie Odom Jr., one of the stars of Hamilton. Here's the song.
-— excerpt from transcript of This American Life transcript
Song Seriously by Sara Bareilles and sung by Leslie Odom, Jr. Song - Seriously
Hillary Clinton in 2016 on #45
He is too dangerous and unstable to have the nuclear codes
We have been talking about if for 7 years. The only real question for today is “What do we do about it?”
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