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

Episode 781 |
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At least twice a year, a group of white, conservative, men and the white women who love them -- plus Candace Owens -- come together to celebrate their collective victimhood and oppression at the hands of Black and Brown, gay and trans, atheist and agnostics. Because as we all know, the most marginalized group in our country are white, Christian men who somehow have the most economic and political power of all other groups combined.
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Joe Biden says that he'd be willing to pick a Republican as a VP/running mate. Need I say more?
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Neera Tanden has been, for some time, one of the most influential Democratic operatives in the nation. Today she is trending on Twitter and I believe it's because she's absolutely terrified of losing that influence to a rag-tag group of progressives.

Episode 780 |

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Another day, another shooting. This time a shooter took the lives of two churchgoers during communion.
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Andrew Yang's latest commercial claims he's supporting Medicare for All when his actual plans don't even support a public option. What's going on here?
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An antisemitic attack in New York has led to accusations of anti-Semitism against Bernie Sanders. Let's unpack this weird contortion of logic.
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Boots on the Ground. I'm thinking of discussing with my partners evolving Progressive Army into a team of volunteers who will be sent to assist organizers in their own city. What do you think?

Episode 779 |
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The Intercept exposed billionaire presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg, for using prison labor to make phone calls for his campaign. The use of prison labor for profit is nothing new. But the fact that a billionaire running for president has been caught exploiting that labor is amazingly apropos.
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The Washington Post details a story of a struggling dairy farm family fighting to survive amid changes in demand for their product but very directly because of Donald Trump's trade war. But despite the direct impact of his policies, the barriers to getting assistance, and the concentration of the farm bailout going to the top 10%, these farmers are standing by their man.

Episode 778 |

I'm getting over a cold and sound pretty ridiculous. Just wanted you to know. lol
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Listen, Joe Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump. Anyone telling you otherwise is being grossly irresponsible with the future of our country and our planet.
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In response to Christianity Today coming out against Donald Trump, the Christian Post (another magazine) has come out to defend Donald Trump. This has led to the resignation of their editor. Let's discuss this.
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Have a great holiday, Christmas, a day off -- whatever you celebrate or don't celebrate, enjoy some time with friends and family. And if you don't have friends or family, come hang out with me on Twitter.

Episode 777 |
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Pete is pushing back against the wine cave issue. But Axios just released a story showing that Pete is doing exactly what everyone is concerned with: selling influence to rich donors.
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UK artist, Stormzy, just called the UK 100% racist. Ironically, some of the same people pushing back against him called the Labour party racist. Centrists, no matter where you find them, know how to weaponize calling people racist but conveniently ignore it when it's their own.
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200:1. 200 pastors signed a letter decrying Christianity Today which, so far, is the only major group of conservative evangelicals who dared to call out Donald Trump. 200:1 ratio.