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Episode 771 |
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Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party suffered a devastating defeat against the Conservative Party. Let's discuss what this means for the NHS, the global Left, and American politics.
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Mike Huckabee trolls America with a tweet about heading up the 2024 campaign for Donald Trump. But all things considered, we can't take this as a joke.
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Finally, the fight we're in, we may be behind. But it's the fight for all humanity and we CAN WIN!
Episode 770 |
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Election day in the UK. This is the first salvo in the resurgence of the global Left.
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Michelle Obama says she has the same values as GW Bush. Really?
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We like to think America is a meritocracy. If that was the case, there is a list of people in the American limelight that we'd otherwise never have heard of.
Episode 769 |
-- Rise and Grind, Progressive Army!--
Have your episode with a cup of coffee and let's sit down and discuss.
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A new Quinnipiac poll shows that 52% of Democrats under 35 support Bernie Sanders. The future is Progressive!
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Donald Trump is slated to use an executive order to designate Judaism as a nationality. This is in efforts to crush the BDS movement. Of course, we don't expect "Free Speech Absolutists" on the Right to say anything about this because this is a part of their overall strategy.
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Democrats are failing at every stop. Let me be more precise, the old vanguard of Democrats are failing at every stop. It's time for a new breed of Democrats.
Episode 768 |
The Horowitz report and the subsequent competing interpretations is the perfect muse for us to understand why there may be no hope for America or humanity. LOL. Sorry to be so dramatic, but we are at the point where the people are demanding that our leaders and our media LIE to them. We're in trouble.
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Nancy Pelosi is impeaching Donald Trump and simultaneously working out a trade deal with him. What is their problem?
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Bernie Sanders is ready to cancel all student and medical debt. That would be what we consider in the church, "The Year of Jubilee" for most of America.
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Listen, I'm fully aware of the fact that White, Evangelical Christianity is devoid of anything that could be remotely considered Christlike. But that there is not a single, organized resistance to Donald Trump and, quite to the contrary, a full embrace of him as some messiah figure blows my mind.
Episode 767 |
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AOC showed us that we don't have to engage in corporate America's race to the bottom. It's time these businesses start paying their fair share!
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Donald Trump went on an antisemtic rant. Here's the gag: no one is going to say anything about it.
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Youtuber, Jimmy Dore, decided he and his wife wanted to interrogate Kamala Harris' blackness. The caucacity.
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Finally, everywhere we turn Black people have our intelligence and question and our agency challenged. Enough's enough.
Episode 766 |
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Mayor Peter thinks the Democrats don't "worry enough" about the deficit. Nevermind the fact that every Democratic president has lowered the deficit after inheriting it from their Republican predecessors. Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC was not having it. Neither was I.
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A police shooting yesterday in Miami claimed the lives of four people including a UPS driver who was a hostage and an innocent bystander. Enough is enough!
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A new poll shows that 43% of Republicans think the President could be more efficient if he didn't have to wait on Congress or the Courts. Basically, a dictator.
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A few voicemails for you!
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Finally, a "last word" from Senator Sanders.
See you next week,
- Ben
Episode 765 |
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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has called for the chairman of the committee leading the impeachment proceedings to draft articles of impeachment. Trump responded. Are we living in two different realities where half of America can see the direct need for impeachment and the other half swears there is nothing there?
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Rand Paul wants you to use your retirement to pay off student debt. Here's the gag: most Americans don't have a retirement. 66% of millennials don't have retirement.
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The Trump administration has moved to cut SNAP benefits and school lunches which could lead to nearly 3.7 million people losing their benefits. All this to save $5.5 billion dollars over 5 years. This is basically a rounding error in the wealth of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. This is smaller than a rounding error for the Defense budget.
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George Zimmerman is still living able to terrorize the family of his victim, Trayvon Martin. That he is free to sue the family of Martin for $100 million suggests very loudly to me that the moral arc of the universe does not necessarily lean towards justice: we have to fight like HELL for justice!
Episode 764 |
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Two prosecutors in the race. Only one got labeled a cop. The other hasn't been touched by this narrative. Why this matters and what we should learn from this.
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Tulsi Gabbard has 5 points in New Hampshire. Sanders is down by only 3. Time for Tulsi to drop out and endorse Senator Sanders.
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A brief note to young, Black progressives. It's just my experience and I want to share it with you. What I will say can be applied to any identity that doesn't control the reigns of power. But I only have one identity that isn't in power: Black. I'm a man. I'm Christian. So that part of my life is easy. But there are some experiences I want to share with young, Black progressives that I feel they should know.
Listen in.
-- Ben
Episode 763 |
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Kamala Harris' team just announced that she is out of the running as she no longer has the funds necessary to compete for the presidency. This is breaking news.
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The Middle-Class Squeeze is a real thing, and people need to understand that even if you're making $250,000 a year, you have more in common with minimum wage earners than people living off capital gains.
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The UK is facing the grim possibility of losing the NHS system to America's vulture healthcare industry. Let's discuss.
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And white supremacist, Richard Spencer, shared a clip of Malcolm X. Here's why.
Episode 762 |
Mayor Pete is pushing hard against providing college for the rich kids of CEOs. This is a disingenuous argument that creates a means-tested program destined to collapse in the future. It is also an argument that leaves the families that make between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without free college.
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The way Pete is able to make this argument is the same way Democrats and Republicans have been able to make this argument for years: people who think they're rich but really aren't are the ones who bare the brunt of these means-tested programs. This inevitably sows dissent and discord around the program. It eventually leads to more animus between the working class and people who think they're rich but they're really not.
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Ross Douthat of the New York Times put out a piece championing a case for Bernie Sanders based on the idea that Sanders will not stoke the wedge issues of social liberalism (abortion, LGBTQ rights, Race issues, etc.) The problem is, Republicans will still label Bernie a social radical and, even if he is, would we want him to go mum on these issues to appeal to social conservatives?
Let's discuss.
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