Carl Zha (@CarlZha), host of the Silk and Steel Podcast (https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel) fills Dan (@DarnArckerman) and Peter (@Parenthestein) in on some history and context to the current Hong Kong protests before we jump into the tough questions that accompany any protest movement in the world of Great Power politics.

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Links:

All-too-common Pepe

https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/23/20827041/pepe-the-frog-hong-kong-protests-china-dota-2-the-international-2019

Fuck the Popo

https://twitter.com/Dystopia992/status/1172320596140552192

Resist Beijing -- Liberate Hong Kong!

https://twitter.com/cheriechancy/status/1173119149616140288

Rally at the US consulate in Hong Kong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fugZvuyR9GU

Marco Rubio with Patten and Wong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAwsIsLWFO0

US national anthem at the consulate rally

https://twitter.com/Snow_Fang2/status/1173147209245741057

Jimmy Lai

https://www.fdd.org/events/2019/07/08/protests-crack-downsand-the-future-of-hong-kong-a-conversation-with-jimmy-lai/

Poon Hiu-wing killed by in Taiwan

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2137067/hong-kong-man-19-arrested-after-being-suspected-killing-his

A little perspective

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/17/hong-kong-protest-washington-nativism-violence/

On NED funding (with a Carl tweet of a Pepe sign!)

https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protest-united-states-destabilize-china/261712/

Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions role in protests

https://twitter.com/chinahand/status/1159884666054201344

Locust ad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Kong_Qingdong_incident

Functional constituency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_Kong)

Corporate voting

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1638964/abolish-corporate-voting-make-hong-kong-elections-fairer

Regime change Avengers

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1171581570655780864

West Papua

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1169433895084818432

Tim Shorrock on Korea

https://twitter.com/TimothyS/status/1167825922667536386

Marginal Violence Theory in the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/opinion/hong-kong-protests-police-violence.html

Locust World song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNr7mfFZu8

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Dan (@DarnArckerman) and Peter (@Parenthestein) stare into the abyss of media coverage of Bernie Sanders and find... themselves...

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Timestamps:

0:00: Epstein poisoned our vapes

14:18: Trump primary challenges

26:29: On the Bernie Media

Links:

Raprock Obama

https://twitter.com/betaodork/status/1166808746544250882 

Old Town Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD24oApjci8& 

Joi Ito's idea of "restorative justice"

https://twitter.com/DarnArckerman/status/1169448887276507138

Ronan Farrow on Ito, Eptsein, and Bill Gates

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein

WaPo anti-Sanders bias

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/15/if-youre-looking-evidence-wapo-media-bias-against-bernie-sanders-here-it

Glenn Kessler's Pulitzer nom

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/07/glenn-kessler-fact-checker-washington-post-pulitzer/

Katie Halper in Jacobin on Sydney "Fire Emoji" Ember

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/07/bernie-sanders-sydney-ember-new-york-times

Rolling Stone on the Fact Check

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-medical-bankruptcy-washington-post-fact-check-878120/ 

Greenwald on "Spygate"

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/the-fbi-informant-who-monitored-the-trump-campaign-stefan-halper-oversaw-a-cia-spying-operation-in-the-1980-presidential-election/

A good fact-check on the fact-check

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/31/sanders-campaign-demands-washington-post-retract-fact-check-medical-bankruptcies

Some more

https://bernie.substack.com/p/bernie-2020-demands-retraction-of

Lev Stesin in Haaretz on Bernie as "Jewish Bolshevik"

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-i-rage-at-bernie-sanders-the-last-jewish-bolshevik-but-i-can-t-hate-him-1.7774291

Warren <3 Clinton

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/warren-clinton-talk-behind-scenes-2020-race-intensifies-n1049701

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Peter (@Parenthestein) and Dan (@DarnArckerman) come back from their August sabbatical just in time for blood to burst out of Biden's face on live TV! We missed this!!!

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Timestamps:

0:00: OH-DEHHH

2:29: Biden's bloody eye

8:29: Brexit

Links:

Biden's bloody eye 2019https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1169411710396096518  

Biden's bloody eye... in 2013!!!

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-02-13/joe-biden-zombie-eye-glasses-go-viral-state-union  

OH-DEHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1168996965541171204  

Lebanese Parliament

https://twitter.com/Ali_Kourani/status/1169291960051490818  

The original Bret bedbug email

https://twitter.com/davekarpf/status/1166159027589570566 

Biden's bloody eye... in 3019 of the Third Age!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l84Jamv0xyE

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Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) and Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) throw Al Franken in the water one more time and find that he still floats. We're never going to be free of Franken or the culture he represents. Might as well listen to TNNE while we rot in this pyramid!

Speaking of rot, we talk Boris Johnson in Overtime!:

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Timestamps:

0:00: The Baby Boomers' Cultural Mausoleum

6:02: Peter makes Dan watch the CATS trailer

17:39: Mueller hearing

20:45: Jane Mayer's Al-Franken-Did-Nothing-Wrong article

Links:

Franken as Hussein

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Franken_Iraq_4.jpg

Jane Mayer's Al-Franken-Did-Nothing-Wrong article

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

Franken resignation speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdGuJNYI83Y

Franken's Christmas in Kuwait 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYHQ69r4Lk

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Alisa Raisis returns to scream in unison with Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) and Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) about how good Midsommar was. Folk horror, body horror, heterosexuality horror, the horror of anarcho-primitivism, we've got you covered.

We tried to talk about the Pelosi/Squad feud in Overtime, but we mostly ended up talking about The Lion King:

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Timestamps:

0:00: Intros, Red Scare, and other nonsense

10:44: Midsommar review really starts

Willow's Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcwiA6hH7U

Häxan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLCpxD4VZQI

Peter Herman (@TweeterHerman) can't stay away when Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) and Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) delve into Jeff Ross's roast dialectic. The rest of the week folds out from that single point of energy, from Aziz Ansari's new Netflix special to Jeffrey Epstein's arrest to Hunter Biden's all-American failed search for meaning.

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Timestamps:

0:00: Intros, historical roasts, & other bullshit

15:06: Aziz Ansari's new special

34:30: Jeffrey Epstein

51:19: Hunter Biden

Links:

One of the many Epstein pieces:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks

Hunter Biden's NYer profile:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign

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Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) and Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) had the day off to burn a flag on July 4, but they're back to recap last week's debate and talk about more of the ethnic cleansing horrors that this country is committing. Fun...

There's a rumble in the right wing on Overtime!:

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Links:

Biden's eulogy at Strom Thurmond's funeral

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4790947/joe-biden-eulogy

Learn more about the Free Heartland Kids campaign

https://freeheartlandkids.com/

Listen to Dan and Sarah Gourevitch on the Midwest Socialist podcast

https://soundcloud.com/midwestsocialist/free-heartland-kids

Night 2 Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7hni-zGD8

Zach Carter on Pelosi

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats_n_5d155cece4b07f6ca57ac4cb

CBP Facebook group

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes

The Intercept archived some of the posts

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/05/border-patrol-facebook-group/

Wayfair walkout

https://www.thenation.com/article/wayfair-workers-walk-out/

I don't understand

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/i-dont-understand-the-wayfair-walkout/

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Peter Herman (@TweeterHerman) joined Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) and Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) a week or two or ten ago, and we're just getting the ep up now. It's been a tough couple of weeks, but we should be back to our regular schedule pretty soon. For now, enjoy this TNNE classic combo before the debate tonight, and we've got an exclusive Yasmin Nair interview for our loyal Galaxy Brain clubbers. Thanks for sticking with us! We owe you!

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Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) and Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) are back to pick up the trash in Elizabeth Warren's policy shop. From a No Child Left Behind plan for hospitals to Green Imperialism, we try to parse the other left candidate and her various schemes. Plus some talk about the ever-worsening ethnic cleansing crisis in the US.

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Timestamps:

0:00: Intro

1:33: Immigration and detention

20:55: Warren's got a plan

51:18: Sanders in the Times

Links:

Sheik Khalid scrap yard

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_Sheik_Khalid_scrap_yard.jpg

​Breakfast Club interview with Warren (20:00 for Native American issue; 26:25 for Republican issue)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVoXVwriOM

No Child Left Behind for hospitals

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/the-problem-with-elizabeth-warrens-maternal-mortality-plan.html

Pod Save Warren

https://twitter.com/jackallisonlol/status/1112707719562051584?s=12

Apolitical judges

https://theweek.com/articles/845319/buttigiegs-busted-court-plan

Mark Ames on Tiananmen

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1136272833989009409

Alexander Burns & Sydney Ember: "Mayor and 'Foreign Minister'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/bernie-sanders-burlington-mayor.html

Sydney Ember: "I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/bernie-sanders.html

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Join Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) and Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) as they say farewell to the show that blossomed fully in the Trump era. We talk, too, about the coming war with Iran, the wind-down of the hot coup in Venezuela, and lib gotcha rhetoric.

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Timestamps:

0:00: Intro and Peter's Weird Twitter celeb sighting

2:31: Venezuela coupdates

9:39: The pivot to Iran

17:07: An interlude on abortion and sharia

23:30: Back to Iran

33:06: R.I.Veep.

Links:

The astroturfed VZ embassy mob

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/16/guaido-mob-venezuelan-embassy/

Clinton: "We will attack Iran"

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/731551/us-election-president-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-world-war-iran-russia-putin

Cenk Uygur on sharia

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1126859018633338887

Adam Curtis on Yes Minister (35:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y97Ywl7RtUw

Warren Wilhelm on Con Don

https://www.politico.com/video/2019/05/16/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-announces-presidential-bid-calls-trump-con-don-068122

Palin at the turkey slaughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbiVoYGPHaA