3400 - Why Harris Chose Tim Walz; How QAnon Destroyed Families w/ Ettingermentum, Jesselyn Cook (M)

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It’s an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with blogger Ettingermentum of the "Ettingermentum Newsletter" on SubStack, to discuss Kamala Harris's campaign now that she's selected Tim Walz as her running mate. Then, she speaks with Jesselyn Cook, writer at NBCNews and HuffPost and 2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, to discuss her recent book The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family. First, Emma runs through updates on Harris’ presidential candidacy and platform, the GOP’s failing attacks on Tim Walz, Trump’s legal woes, Israel’s slaughter of Gaza, Cybertruck controversy, fascist and anti-fascist protests in the UK, and climate change, before watching Harris’ disappointing response to pro-Palestine protesters interrupting her. Next, she is joined by Ettingermentum as they briefly admire Nancy Pelosi’s recent politicking, before parsing through the concerning reports on the Biden team’s internal dialogue over the past two years, including a complete commitment to poll-denialism and putting Biden on a pedestal. Next, they look at Harris' replacement candidacy, tackling the quality of her resumé compared to alternatives and what to make of her selection of Tim Walz as running mate, wrapping up with an assessment of the important distinctions between him and Shapiro, particularly when it comes to Israel. Jesselyn Cook then joins, walking Emma through her first introduction to covering the world of Q Anon at a 2020 rally, unpacking the surprising revelations she had about the people she found there, and the genuinely human experiences and unmet needs that led them to getting manipulated by this movement. Cook explores the stories of real people who’ve been hijacked by this movement, highlighting the social insecurities caused by genuine sociopolitical failures that made their indoctrination possible, and why it comes from a desire to manifest meaning rather than a failure of intellect, before wrapping up by exploring what it takes to rescue someone from this pipeline.

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