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Episode 790
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This isn't playing out the way Warren's consultants thought.
Episode 789 |
Politico reported that Sanders' team sent out messaging that attacked Warren. Let's unpack the report, the accusation, and the realities.
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Joe Biden's war record comes under fire. Let's discuss this.
Episode 788 |
Donald Trump rally is a masterclass on bigotry, hatred, and the cult-of-personality. Listen to both the incoherent ramblings of a megalomaniac as well as the pure hatred teeming from the roaring crowd of sycophants.
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I had the chance to cover an organizing event here in Atlanta last night and believe me when I tell you: Organizers matter more than all of us in independent media combined.
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Matt Gaetz, Republican from Florida, decided to defend the Constitution over Trump and now Trumpsters are ripping him apart.
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I regret to inform you -- Epstein didn't kill himself.
Long nights make for late morning. Here's today's show. I'll write more tomorrow. LOL
A lot happened last night. Let's discuss.
Episode 785 |
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TV star, Judge Judy, is filthy rich with a net worth of $400 million. Yesterday she endorsed the billionaire in the race, Michael Bloomberg. This is what class solidarity looks like.
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Nikki Haley thinks Democrats are bad because, as she accuses them, they "mourn" the death of Iranian general Qasim Sulemani. Democrats have actually prevaricated as much as they could to make sure everyone knows they couldn't possibly say a good thing about a man our country just assassinated. But that's never enough for Republicans.
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Mitch McConnell gave a heart-warming speech in the Senate chamber yesterday about unity. Mitch McConnell is by far the most devious political machiavellian whose machinations are on the scale of Senator Palpatine.
Episode 784 |
Trump is taking us into war based on his ego and his ignorance. Evangelicals are giving him a religious covering. Congress will now receive their notifications about war via Twitter. Folks, we're living in the worst timeline imaginable.
Episode 783 |
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Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general as he left the Baghdad airport en route to meet with Shia militias in Iraq. The attack has stoked fears of armed conflict with Iran. The question now is, how will Iran respond and what will be the United States' response to their retaliation?
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War profiteers have been making billions of dollars off of non-stop war since 2001. We often mistake the faux-patriotism of "support our troops" and the "red, white and blue" with what it really is: a windfall-profit scheme that pours trillions into the hands of defense contractors trying to hit their quarterly profit targets.
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Voicemail: Ben Shapiro's followers are turning on him. Let's discuss.
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Special Note: Sorry for the late episode. We got back from Savannah this morning at 4 AM!
Episode 782 |
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Fundraising numbers are in and Bernie Sanders has broken records. Mayor Pete raised a lot of money with billionaires but wants to convince you that he has a grassroots campaign. Elizabeth Warren has fallen behind but still posts impressive numbers.
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A video of Joe Biden taken out of context has gone viral and now everyone is apologizing for it. At least the Left is willing to correct itself. Unfortunately, this places us all at a major disadvantage when dealing with Right-wingers who have no regard for the truth.
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Fires in Australia highlight the impending climate disasters. Meanwhile, a new UN report shows that we can buy ourselves 20 years with just $300 billion. That's just the net worth of Bezos, Gates, and Buffet combined -- so it's not really that much. But odds are, the world will end before we tax the rich sufficiently.
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Finally, compare Joe Biden's track record on economic policy to that of Bernie Sanders. Biden was groomed in Ronald Reagan's trickle-down, neoliberal economic theory. Sanders has been calling out the resulting concentrated wealth that those theories create for at least 33 years.
We're old. We're tired. And we have no life. lololololl
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