If I never hear the name Joe Manchin again it will be too soon. Why has no one told him his career is over unless he stops holding up progress for 327 million Americans. Does no one have dirt on him, and if not, why not? Because they don't care in the end, it's not about them. It's only about you, and you are lost in all of it. Plus, I saw @Zola and …. Well, listen in to see. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com

Nicole Sandler 12 - 20 - 21 What's News Extended by Progressive Voices

"When Marx was writing, just under 200 years ago, jobs were still a relatively new and contentious concept. "Wage slavery "as the liberal economists of the day called it, forced people to rent their labor out to others - at a loss. It wasn't slavery, but it wasn't freedom, either. ...."

Related episode to check out: This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything

Omicron - what more or little do we know this week? It boils down to health vs the economy and an action-thriller guessing game. Should we turn up the heat on restrictions at risk of the collapse of entire industries, like hospitality or Performance Arts?

Ukraine vs Russia. How much do we really know about this complex tussle, and who says the Ukraine belongs to Russia just because Russia says it does? While the Parent/Teen relationship between these countries continues to fester, their ever-meddling Uncle [Sam] seems to think sanctions will make a difference.

It's a 'Wrap' from Team Intersection...Wishing you and yours the very Best of Health as we welcome a New Year full of Hope.

With the Senate announcing they’re heading into recess without passing the Build Back Better Act, we figured why not get out of the news cycle for Off-Kilter’s last episode of the year and instead have a far more good-news conversation that Rebecca Vallas has been meaning to have for a while with her dear friend Rebecca Cokley of the Ford Foundation.

Legendary British LGBTQI+ faith activist Jayne Ozanne. A survivor of ex-gay therapy and religious trauma before finally coming out, the high profile Evangelical has served in leadership positions in business and government – all while suppressing who she really is.

Also, Ryan Stollar writes that Overturning Roe V. Wade would be just the beginning of a cascade of unintended consequences regarding what rights the current Supreme Court is likely to recognize – and what it likely won’t!

Another day in the United States of Serfs and Lords.

US Senate Recesses for the Year Without Build Back Better, Voting Rights

DeJoy Nets Massive Bonus Amid Mail Delays and Rampant Wage Theft From Carriers

Republican traitors won't quit.

We discuss the madness.

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FYINation's Thomas Reynolds calls in to talk about Republicans doing another NAZI imitation and blaming COVID on immigrants.

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Some more compassionate CONservatism for you! Bar Rescue Host and Laura Ingraham Discuss Cutting Unemployment Aid to Make Workers “Hungry” Like an “Obedient Dog”

We discuss the madness.

CELINE-MARIE PASCALE, professor of sociology at American University, is a leader in examining how deep inequalities can be normalized through the language we use to describe them. Her book LIVING ON THE EDGE: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life offers the voices of people who struggle to make ends meet, reveals a system that profits from their struggles, and presents a vision for change from the working people who know that the economy we have is unsustainable for most of the U.S. population.

Leslie is joined by Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union.

The two discuss:

1. Seven Highlights from AAM's 50-State '2021 Made in America Holiday Gift Guide'

2. AAM Statement on the 20th Anniversary of China’s WTO Ascension

3. AAM: "Senate Passes Legislation to Ban Imports from China’s Xinjiang Region" (by AAM's Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch)

The website for AAM is AmericanManufacturing.org and their Twitter handle is @KeepItMadeInUSA. Scott's handle is @ScottPaulAAM.

Karel Cast Dec 17 How To Function In The Middle Baby

Karel begins with a gospel song from a movie you’ll never guess, segues in to the predecessor for on of Obama’s favorite movies, and then gets real with the extreme world we live in: on one end, complete government incompetence and gridlock, and a coup that may not be over; on the other, the lives we want and need to be living. And us? In the middle. So, we need to figure out the new normal, because things aren’t going back to anything any time soon as Covid rages. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com