its xmas eve eve and congress has agreed on a $600 check, we ask how close we're getting to running AI as politicians, trump calls for $2000 checks in an act of lame duck theatre, the function of the democratic party as an opposition party, how spending on war and imperial projects abroad is tied to austerity and a police state at home, trump pardons homicidal Blackwater mercenaries and more. Recorded December 23, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com