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Jeffery Mays, New York Times reporter covering politics with a focus on New York City Hall, and Kelly Mena, Spectrum News NY1 political reporter, talk about the candidates' strategies to beat Zohran Mamdani in the general election this fall, as some big unions have announced their support for the Democratic nominee, while some big-name Democrats have withheld endorsements. 

In today's episode we discuss how the Iran-Israel war ended and what the future of the Middle East is. Will there be peace between the USA and Iran?We also discuss Zohran Mamdani's win and the Democratic Establishment, Marco Rubio calling Shahbaz Sharif, PTI in fighting and forced conversions in Sindh.Uzair Younus and Shehzad Ghias do the round up of this week's news in our new show 'This Week in Pakistan. Watch all episodes of This Week in Pakistan:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTU8aQikWU&list=PLlQZ9NZnjq5rCn6IgBjTRXnRjsS03Ty8OThe Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceTo support the channel:Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912Patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceAnd Please stay in touch:https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperiencehttps://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperienceThe podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikhFacebook.com/Shehzadghias/Twitter.com/shehzad89Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44l9XMwecN5nSgIF2Dvivg/join

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Mara Gay — an opinion writer at The New York Times, a former member of The Times' Editorial Board, and a longtime New York journalist who has covered New York and national politics — joined the show to discuss Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor, the flaws in the Democratic establishment, the role of the Times, and what comes next. (Ep 314)

So why did Harris lose in 2024? For one very big reason, according to the progressive essayist Bill Deresiewicz: “because she represented the exhausted Democratic establishment”. This rotting establishment, Deresiewicz believes, is symbolized by both the collective denial of Biden's mental decline and by Harris' pathetically rudderless Presidential campaign. But there's a much more troubling problem with the Democratic party, he argues. It has become “the party of institutionalized liberalism, which is itself exhausted”. So how to reinvent American liberalism in the 2020's? How to make the left once again, in Deresiewicz words, “the locus of openness, playfulness, productive contention, experiment, excess, risk, shock, camp, mirth, mischief, irony and curiosity"? That's the question for all progressives in our MAGA/Woke age. 5 Key Takeaways * Deresiewicz believes the Democratic establishment and aligned media engaged in a "tacit cover-up" of Biden's condition and other major issues like crime, border policies, and pandemic missteps rather than addressing them honestly.* The liberal movement that began in the 1960s has become "exhausted" and the Democratic Party is now an uneasy alliance of establishment elites and working-class voters whose interests don't align well.* Progressive institutions suffer from a repressive intolerance characterized by "an unearned sense of moral superiority" and a fear of vitality that leads to excessive rules, bureaucracy, and speech codes.* While young conservatives are creating new movements with energy and creativity, the progressive establishment stifles innovation by purging anyone who "violates the code" or criticizes their side.* Rebuilding the left requires creating conditions for new ideas by ending censoriousness, embracing true courage that risks something real, and potentially building new institutions rather than trying to reform existing ones. Full Transcript Andrew Keen: Hello, everyone. It's the old question on this show, Keen on America, how to make sense of this bewildering, frustrating, exciting country in the wake, particularly of the last election. A couple of years ago, we had the CNN journalist who I rather like and admire, Jake Tapper, on the show. Arguing in a piece of fiction that he thinks, to make sense of America, we need to return to the 1970s. He had a thriller out a couple of years ago called All the Demons Are Here. But I wonder if Tapper's changed his mind on this. His latest book, which is a sensation, which he co-wrote with Alex Thompson, is Original Sin, President Biden's Decline, its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Tapper, I think, tells the truth about Biden, as the New York Times notes. It's a damning portrait of an enfeebled Biden protected by his inner circle. I would extend that, rather than his inner circle protected by an elite, perhaps a coastal elite of Democrats, unable or unwilling to come to terms with the fact that Biden was way, way past his shelf life. My guest today, William Deresiewicz—always get his last name wrong—it must be...William Deresiewicz: No, that was good. You got it.Andrew Keen: Probably because I'm anti-semitic. He has a new piece out called "Post-Election" which addresses much of the rottenness of the American progressive establishment in 2025. Bill, congratulations on the piece.William Deresiewicz: Thank you.Andrew Keen: Have you had a chance to look at this Tapper book or have you read about Original Sin?William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I read that piece. I read the piece that's on the screen and I've heard some people talking about it. And I mean, as you said, it's not just his inner circle. I don't want to blame Tapper. Tapper did the work. But one immediate reaction to the debate debacle was, where have the journalists been? For example, just to unfairly call one person out, but they're just so full of themselves, the New Yorker dripping with self-congratulations, especially in its centennial year, its boundless appetite for self-celebration—to quote something one of my students once said about Yale—they've got a guy named Evan Osnos, who's one of their regulars on their political...Andrew Keen: Yeah, and he's been on the show, Evan, and in fact, I rather like his, I was going to say his husband, his father, Peter Osnos, who's a very heavy-hitting ex-publisher. But anyway, go on. And Evan's quite a nice guy, personally.William Deresiewicz: I'm sure he's a nice guy, but the fact is he's not only a New Yorker journalist, but he wrote a book about Biden, which means that he's presumably theoretically well-sourced within Biden world. He didn't say anything. I mean, did he not know or did he know?Andrew Keen: Yeah, I agree. I mean you just don't want to ask, right? You don't know. But you're a journalist, so you're supposed to know. You're supposed to ask. So I'm sure you're right on Osnos. I mean, he was on the show, but all journalists are progressives, or at least all the journalists at the Times and the New Yorker and the Atlantic. And there seemed to be, as Jake Tapper is suggesting in this new book, and he was part of the cover-up, there seemed to be a cover-up on the part of the entire professional American journalist establishment, high-end establishment, to ignore the fact that the guy running for president or the president himself clearly had no idea of what was going on around him. It's just astonishing, isn't it? I mean, hindsight's always easy, of course, 2020 in retrospect, but it was obvious at the time. I made it clear whenever I spoke about Biden, that here was a guy clearly way out of his depth, that he shouldn't have been president, maybe shouldn't have been president in the first place, but whatever you think about his ideas, he clearly was way beyond his shelf date, a year or two into the presidency.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, but here's the thing, and it's one of the things I say in the post-election piece, but I'm certainly not the only person to say this. There was an at least tacit cover-up of Biden, of his condition, but the whole thing was a cover-up, meaning every major issue that the 2024 election was about—crime, at the border, woke excess, affordability. The whole strategy of not just the Democrats, but this media establishment that's aligned with them is to just pretend that it wasn't happening, to explain it away. And we can also throw in pandemic policy, right? Which people were still thinking about and all the missteps in pandemic policy. The strategy was effectively a cover-up. We're not gonna talk about it, or we're gonna gaslight you, or we're gonna make excuses. So is it a surprise that people don't trust these establishment institutions anymore? I mean, I don't trust them anymore and I want to trust them.Andrew Keen: Were there journalists? I mean, there were a handful of journalists telling the truth about Biden. Progressives, people on the left rather than conservatives.William Deresiewicz: Ezra Klein started to talk about it, I remember that. So yes, there were a handful, but it wasn't enough. And you know, I don't say this to take away from Ezra Klein what I just gave him with my right hand, take away with my left, but he was also the guy, as soon as the Kamala succession was effected, who was talking about how Kamala in recent months has been going from strength to strength and hasn't put a foot wrong and isn't she fantastic. So all credit to him for telling the truth about Biden, but it seems to me that he immediately pivoted to—I mean, I'm sure he thought he was telling the truth about Harris, but I didn't believe that for one second.Andrew Keen: Well, meanwhile, the lies about Harris or the mythology of Harris, the false—I mean, all mythology, I guess, is false—about Harris building again. Headline in Newsweek that Harris would beat Donald Trump if an election was held again. I mean I would probably beat—I would beat Trump if an election was held again, I can't even run for president. So anyone could beat Trump, given the situation. David Plouffe suggested that—I think he's quoted in the Tapper book—that Biden totally fucked us, but it suggests that somehow Harris was a coherent progressive candidate, which she wasn't.William Deresiewicz: She wasn't. First of all, I hadn't seen this poll that she would beat Trump. I mean, it's a meaningless poll, because...Andrew Keen: You could beat him, Bill, and no one can even pronounce your last name.William Deresiewicz: Nobody could say what would actually happen if there were a real election. It's easy enough to have a hypothetical poll. People often look much better in these kinds of hypothetical polls where there's no actual election than they do when it's time for an election. I mean, I think everyone except maybe David Plouffe understands that Harris should never have been a candidate—not just after Biden dropped out way too late, but ever, right? I mean the real problem with Biden running again is that he essentially saddled us with Harris. Instead of having a real primary campaign where we could have at least entertained the possibility of some competent people—you know, there are lots of governors. I mean, I'm a little, and maybe we'll get to this, I'm little skeptical that any normal democratic politician is going to end up looking good. But at least we do have a whole bunch of what seem to be competent governors, people with executive experience. And we never had a chance to entertain any of those people because this democratic establishment just keeps telling us who we're going to vote for. I mean, it's now three elections in a row—they forced Hillary on us, and then Biden. I'm not going to say they forced Biden on us although elements of it did. It probably was a good thing because he won and he may have been the only one who could have won. And then Harris—it's like reductio ad absurdum. These candidates they keep handing us keep getting worse and worse.Andrew Keen: But it's more than being worse. I mean, whatever one can say about Harris, she couldn't explain why she wanted to be president, which seems to me a disqualifier if you're running for president. The point, the broader point, which I think you bring out very well in the piece you write, and you and I are very much on the same page here, so I'm not going to criticize you in your post-election—William Deresiewicz: You can criticize me, Andrew, I love—Andrew Keen: I know I can criticize you, and I will, but not in this particular area—is that these people are the establishment. They're protecting a globalized world, they're the coast. I mean, in some ways, certainly the Bannonite analysis is right, and it's not surprising that they're borrowing from Lenin and the left is borrowing from Edmund Burke.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I mean I think, and I think this is the real problem. I mean, part of what I say in the piece is that it just seems, maybe this is too organicist, but there just seems to be an exhaustion that the liberal impulse that started, you know, around the time I was born in 1964, and I cite the Dylan movie just because it's a picture of that time where you get a sense of the energy on the left, the dawning of all this exciting—Andrew Keen: You know that movie—and we've done a show on that movie—itself was critical I guess in a way of Dylan for not being political.William Deresiewicz: Well, but even leaving that aside, just the reminder you get of what that time felt like. That seems in the movie relatively accurate, that this new youth culture, the rights revolution, the counterculture, a new kind of impulse of liberalism and progressivism that was very powerful and strong and carried us through the 60s and 70s and then became the establishment and has just become completely exhausted now. So I just feel like it's just gotten to the end of its possibility. Gotten to the end of its life cycle, but also in a less sort of mystical way. And I think this is a structural problem that the Democrats have not been able to address for a long time, and I don't see how they're going to address it. The party is now the party, as you just said, of the establishment, uneasily wedded to a mainly non-white sort of working class, lower class, maybe somewhat middle class. So it's sort of this kind of hybrid beast, the two halves of which don't really fit together. The educated upper middle class, the professional managerial class that you and I are part of, and then sort of the average Black Latino female, white female voter who doesn't share the interests of that class. So what are you gonna do about that? How's that gonna work?Andrew Keen: And the thing that you've always given a lot of thought to, and it certainly comes out in this piece, is the intolerance of the Democratic Party. But it's an intolerance—it's not a sort of, and I don't like this word, it's not the fascist intolerance of the MAGA movement or of Trump. It's a repressive intolerance, it's this idea that we're always right and if you disagree with us, then there must be something wrong with you.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, right. It's this, at this point, completely unearned sense of moral superiority and intellectual superiority, which are not really very clearly distinguished in their mind, I think. And you know, they just reek of it and people hate it and it's understandable that they hate it. I mean, it's Hillary in a word. It's Hillary in a word and again, I'm wary of treading on this kind of ground, but I do think there's an element of—I mean, obviously Trump and his whole camp is very masculinist in a very repulsive way, but there is also a way to be maternalist in a repulsive way. It's this kind of maternal control. I think of it as the sushi mom voice where we're gonna explain to you in a calm way why you should listen to us and why we're going to control every move you make. And it's this fear—I mean what my piece is really about is this sort of quasi-Nietzschean argument for energy and vitality that's lacking on the left. And I think it's lacking because the left fears it. It fears sort of the chaos of the life force. So it just wants to shackle it in all of these rules and bureaucracy and speech codes and consent codes. It just feels lifeless. And I think everybody feels that.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and it's the inability to imagine you can be wrong. It's the moral greediness of some people, at least, who think of themselves on the left. Some people might be listening to this, thinking it's just these two old white guys who think themselves as progressives but are actually really conservative. And all this idea of nature is itself chilling, that it's a kind of anti-feminism.William Deresiewicz: Well, that's b******t. I mean, let me have a chance to respond. I mean I plead guilty to being an old white man—Andrew Keen: I mean you can't argue with that one.William Deresiewicz: I'm not arguing with it. But the whole point rests on this notion of positionality, like I'm an older white man, therefore I think this or I believe that, which I think is b******t to begin with because, you know, down the street there's another older white guy who believes the exact opposite of me, so what's the argument here? But leaving that aside, and whether I am or am not a progressive—okay, my ideal politician is Bernie Sanders, so I'll just leave it at that. The point is, I mean, one point is that feminism hasn't always been like this. Second wave feminism that started in the late sixties, when I was a little kid—there was a censorious aspect to it, but there was also this tremendous vitality. I mean I think of somebody like Andrea Dworkin—this is like, "f**k you" feminism. This is like, "I'm not only not gonna shave my legs, I'm gonna shave my armpits and I don't give a s**t what you think." And then the next generation when I was a young man was the Mary Gates, Camille Paglia, sex-positive power feminism which also had a different kind of vitality. So I don't think feminism has to be the feminism of the women's studies departments and of Hillary Clinton with "you can't say this" and "if you want to have sex with me you have to follow these 10 rules." I don't think anybody likes that.Andrew Keen: The deplorables!William Deresiewicz: Yes, yes, yes. Like I said, I don't just think that the enemies don't like it, and I don't really care what they think. I think the people on our side don't like it. Nobody is having fun on our side. It's boring. No one's having sex from what they tell me. The young—it just feels dead. And I think when there's no vitality, you also have no creative vitality. And I think the intellectual cul-de-sac that the left seems to be stuck in, where there are no new ideas, is related to that.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and I think the more I think about it, I think you're right, it's a generational war. All the action seems to be coming from old people, whether it's the Pelosis and the Bidens, or it's people like Richard Reeves making a fortune off books about worrying about young men or Jonathan Haidt writing about the anxious generation. Where are, to quote David Bowie, the young Americans? Why aren't they—I mean, Bill, you're in a way guilty of this. You made your name with your book, Excellent Sheep about the miseducation...William Deresiewicz: Yeah, so what am I guilty of exactly?Andrew Keen: I'm not saying you're all, but aren't you and Reeves and Haidt, you're all involved in this weird kind of generational war.William Deresiewicz: OK, let's pump the brakes here for a second. Where the young people are—I mean, obviously most people, even young people today, still vote for Democrats. But the young who seem to be exploring new things and having energy and excitement are on the right. And there was a piece—I'm gonna forget the name of the piece and the author—Daniel Oppenheimer had her on the podcast. I think it appeared in The Point. Young woman. Fairly recent college graduate, went to a convention of young republicans, I don't know what they call themselves, and also to democrats or liberals in quick succession and wrote a really good piece about it. I don't think she had ever written anything before or published anything before, but it got a lot of attention because she talked about the youthful vitality at this conservative gathering. And then she goes to the liberals and they're all gray-haired men like us. The one person who had anything interesting to say was Francis Fukuyama, who's in his 80s. She's making the point—this is the point—it's not a generational war, because there are young people on the right side of the spectrum who are doing interesting things. I mean, I don't like what they're doing, because I'm not a rightist, but they're interesting, they're different, they're new, there's excitement there, there's creativity there.Andrew Keen: But could one argue, Bill, that all these labels are meaningless and that whatever they're doing—I'm sure they're having more sex than young progressives, they're having more fun, they're able to make jokes, they are able, for better or worse, to change the system. Does it really matter whether they claim to be MAGA people or leftists? They're the ones who are driving change in the country.William Deresiewicz: Yes, they're the ones who are driving change in the country. The counter-cultural energy that was on the left in the sixties and seventies is now on the right. And it does matter because they are operating in the political sphere, have an effect in the political sphere, and they're unmistakably on the right. I mean, there are all these new weird species on the right—the trads and the neo-pagans and the alt-right and very sort of anti-capitalist conservatives or at least anti-corporate conservatives and all kinds of things that you would never have imagined five years ago. And again, it's not that I like these things. It's that they're new, there's ferment there. So stuff is coming out that is going to drive, is already driving the culture and therefore the politics forward. And as somebody who, yes, is progressive, it is endlessly frustrating to me that we have lost this kind of initiative, momentum, energy, creativity, to what used to be the stodgy old right. Now we're the stodgy old left.Andrew Keen: What do you want to go back to? I mean you brought up Dylan earlier. Do you just want to resurrect...William Deresiewicz: No, I don't.Andrew Keen: You know another one who comes to mind is another sort of bundle of contradictions, Bruce Springsteen. He recently talked about the corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous nature of Trump. I mean Springsteen's a billionaire. He even acknowledged that he mythologized his own working-class status. He's never spent more than an hour in a factory. He's never had a job. So aren't all the pigeons coming back to roost here? The fraud of men like Springsteen are merely being exposed and young people recognize it.William Deresiewicz: Well, I don't know about Springsteen in particular...Andrew Keen: Well, he's a big deal.William Deresiewicz: No, I know he's a big deal, and I love Springsteen. I listened to him on repeat when I was young, and I actually didn't know that he'd never worked in a factory, and I quite frankly don't care because he's an artist, and he made great art out of those experiences, whether they were his or not. But to address the real issue here, he is an old guy. It sounds like he's just—I mean, I'm sure he's sincere about it and I would agree with him about Trump. But to have people like Springsteen or Robert De Niro or George Clooney...Andrew Keen: Here it is.William Deresiewicz: Okay, yes, it's all to the point that these are old guys. So you asked me, do I want to go back? The whole point is I don't want to go back. I want to go forward. I'm not going to be the one to bring us forward because I'm older. And also, I don't think I was ever that kind of creative spirit, but I want to know why there isn't sort of youthful creativity given the fact that most young people do still vote for Democrats, but there's no youthful creativity on the left. Is it just that the—I want to be surprised is the point. I'm not calling for X, Y, or Z. I'm saying astonish me, right? Like Diaghilev said to Cocteau. Astonish me the way you did in the 60s and 70s. Show me something new. And I worry that it simply isn't possible on the left now, precisely because it's so locked down in this kind of establishment, censorious mode that there's no room for a new idea to come from anywhere.Andrew Keen: As it happens, you published this essay in Salmagundi—and that predates, if not even be pre-counterculture. How many years old is it? I think it started in '64. Yeah, so alongside your piece is an interesting piece from Adam Phillips about influence and anxiety. And he quotes Montaigne from "On Experience": "There is always room for a successor, even for ourselves, and a different way to proceed." Is the problem, Bill, that we haven't, we're not willing to leave the stage? I mean, Nancy Pelosi is a good example of this. Biden's a good example. In this Salmagundi piece, there's an essay from Martin Jay, who's 81 years old. I was a grad student in Berkeley in the 80s. Even at that point, he seemed old. Why are these people not able to leave the stage?William Deresiewicz: I am not going to necessarily sign on to that argument, and not just because I'm getting older. Biden...Andrew Keen: How old are you, by the way?William Deresiewicz: I'm 61. So you mentioned Pelosi. I would have been happy for Pelosi to remain in her position for as long as she wanted, because she was effective. It's not about how old you are. Although it can be, obviously as you get older you can become less effective like Joe Biden. I think there's room for the old and the young together if the old are saying valuable things and if the young are saying valuable things. It's not like there's a shortage of young voices on the left now. They're just not interesting voices. I mean, the one that comes immediately to mind that I'm more interested in is Ritchie Torres, who's this congressman who's a genuinely working-class Black congressman from the Bronx, unlike AOC, who grew up the daughter of an architect in Northern Westchester and went to a fancy private university, Boston University. So Ritchie Torres is not a doctrinaire leftist Democrat. And he seems to speak from a real self. Like he isn't just talking about boilerplate. I just feel like there isn't a lot of room for the Ritchie Torres. I think the system that produces democratic candidates militates against people like Ritchie Torres. And that's what I am talking about.Andrew Keen: In the essay, you write about Andy Mills, who was one of the pioneers of the New York Times podcast. He got thrown out of The New York Times for various offenses. It's one of the problems with the left—they've, rather like the Stalinists in the 1930s, purged all the energy out of themselves. Anyone of any originality has been thrown out for one reason or another.William Deresiewicz: Well, because it's always the same reason, because they violate the code. I mean, yes, this is one of the main problems. And to go back to where we started with the journalists, it seems like the rationale for the cover-up, all the cover-ups was, "we can't say anything bad about our side. We can't point out any of the flaws because that's going to help the bad guys." So if anybody breaks ranks, we're going to cancel them. We're going to purge them. I mean, any idiot understands that that's a very short-term strategy. You need the possibility of self-criticism and self-difference. I mean that's the thing—you asked me about old people leaving the stage, but the quotation from Montaigne said, "there's always room for a successor, even ourselves." So this is about the possibility of continuous self-reinvention. Whatever you want to say about Dylan, some people like him, some don't, he's done that. Bowie's done that. This was sort of our idea, like you're constantly reinventing yourself, but this is what we don't have.Andrew Keen: Yeah, actually, I read the quote the wrong way, that we need to reinvent ourselves. Bowie is a very good example if one acknowledges, and Dylan of course, one's own fundamental plasticity. And that's another problem with the progressive movement—they don't think of the human condition as a plastic one.William Deresiewicz: That's interesting. I mean, in one respect, I think they think of it as too plastic, right? This is sort of the blank slate fallacy that we can make—there's no such thing as human nature and we can reshape it as we wish. But at the same time, they've created a situation, and this really is what Excellent Sheep is about, where they're turning out the same human product over and over.Andrew Keen: But in that sense, then, the excellent sheep you write about at Yale, they've all ended up now as neo-liberal, neo-conservative, so they're just rebelling...William Deresiewicz: No, they haven't. No, they are the backbone of this soggy liberal progressive establishment. A lot of them are. I mean, why is, you know, even Wall Street and Silicon Valley sort of by preference liberal? It's because they're full of these kinds of elite college graduates who have been trained to be liberal.Andrew Keen: So what are we to make of the Musk-Thiel, particularly the Musk phenomenon? I mean, certainly Thiel, very much influenced by Rand, who herself, of course, was about as deeply Nietzschean as you can get. Why isn't Thiel and Musk just a model of the virility, the vitality of the early 21st century? You might not like what they say, but they're full of vitality.William Deresiewicz: It's interesting, there's a place in my piece where I say that the liberal can't accept the idea that a bad person can do great things. And one of my examples was Elon Musk. And the other one—Andrew Keen: Zuckerberg.William Deresiewicz: But Musk is not in the piece, because I wrote the piece before the inauguration and they asked me to change it because of what Musk was doing. And even I was beginning to get a little queasy just because the association with Musk is now different. It's now DOGE. But Musk, who I've always hated, I've never liked the guy, even when liberals loved him for making electric cars. He is an example, at least the pre-DOGE Musk, of a horrible human being with incredible vitality who's done great things, whether you like it or not. And I want—I mean, this is the energy that I want to harness for our team.Andrew Keen: I actually mostly agreed with your piece, but I didn't agree with that because I think most progressives believe that actually, the Zuckerbergs and the Musks, by doing, by being so successful, by becoming multi-billionaires, are morally a bit dodgy. I mean, I don't know where you get that.William Deresiewicz: That's exactly the point. But I think what they do is when they don't like somebody, they just negate the idea that they're great. "Well, he's just not really doing anything that great." You disagree.Andrew Keen: So what about ideas, Bill? Where is there room to rebuild the left? I take your points, and I don't think many people would actually disagree with you. Where does the left, if there's such a term anymore, need to go out on a limb, break some eggs, offend some people, but nonetheless rebuild itself? It's not going back to Bernie Sanders and some sort of nostalgic New Deal.William Deresiewicz: No, no, I agree. So this is, this may be unsatisfying, but this is what I'm saying. If there were specific new ideas that I thought the left should embrace, I would have said so. What I'm seeing is the left needs, to begin with, to create the conditions from which new ideas can come. So I mean, we've been talking about a lot of it. The censoriousness needs to go.I would also say—actually, I talk about this also—you know, maybe you would consider yourself part of, I don't know. There's this whole sort of heterodox realm of people who did dare to violate the progressive pieties and say, "maybe the pandemic response isn't going so well; maybe the Black Lives Matter protests did have a lot of violence"—maybe all the things, right? And they were all driven out from 2020 and so forth. A lot of them were people who started on the left and would even still describe themselves as liberal, would never vote for a Republican. So these people are out there. They're just, they don't have a voice within the Democratic camp because the orthodoxy continues to be enforced.So that's what I'm saying. You've got to start with the structural conditions. And one of them may be that we need to get—I don't even know that these institutions can reform themselves, whether it's the Times or the New Yorker or the Ivy League. And it may be that we need to build new institutions, which is also something that's happening. I mean, it's something that's happening in the realm of publishing and journalism on Substack. But again, they're still marginalized because that liberal establishment does not—it's not that old people don't wanna give up power, it's that the established people don't want to give up the power. I mean Harris is, you know, she's like my age. So the establishment as embodied by the Times, the New Yorker, the Ivy League, foundations, the think tanks, the Democratic Party establishment—they don't want to move aside. But it's so obviously clear at this point that they are not the solution. They're not the solutions.Andrew Keen: What about the so-called resistance? I mean, a lot of people were deeply disappointed by the response of law firms, maybe even universities, the democratic party as we noted is pretty much irrelevant. Is it possible for the left to rebuild itself by a kind of self-sacrifice, by lawyers who say "I don't care what you think of me, I'm simply against you" and to work together, or university presidents who will take massive pay cuts and take on MAGA/Trump world?William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if this is going to be the solution to the left rebuilding itself, but I think it has to happen, not just because it has to happen for policy reasons, but I mean you need to start by finding your courage again. I'm not going to say your testicles because that's gendered, but you need to start—I mean the law firms, maybe that's a little, people have said, well, it's different because they're in a competitive business with each other, but why did the university—I mean I'm a Columbia alumnus. I could not believe that Columbia immediately caved.It occurs to me as we're talking that these are people, university presidents who have learned cowardice. This is how they got to be where they got and how they keep their jobs. They've learned to yield in the face of the demands of students, the demands of alumni, the demands of donors, maybe the demands of faculty. They don't know how to be courageous anymore. And as much as I have lots of reasons, including personal ones, to hate Harvard University, good for them. Somebody finally stood up, and I was really glad to see that. So yeah, I think this would be one good way to start.Andrew Keen: Courage, in other words, is the beginning.William Deresiewicz: Courage is the beginning.Andrew Keen: But not a courage that takes itself too seriously.William Deresiewicz: I mean, you know, sure. I mean I don't really care how seriously—not the self-referential courage. Real courage, which means you're really risking losing something. That's what it means.Andrew Keen: And how can you and I then manifest this courage?William Deresiewicz: You know, you made me listen to Jocelyn Benson.Andrew Keen: Oh, yeah, I forgot and I actually I have to admit I saw that on the email and then I forgot who Jocelyn Benson is, which is probably reflects the fact that she didn't say very much.William Deresiewicz: For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, she's the Secretary of State of Michigan. She's running for governor.Andrew Keen: Oh yeah, and she was absolutely diabolical. She was on the show, I thought.William Deresiewicz: She wrote a book called Purposeful Warrior, and the whole interview was just this salad of cliches. Purpose, warrior, grit, authenticity. And part of, I mentioned her partly because she talked about courage in a way that was complete nonsense.Andrew Keen: Real courage, yeah, real courage. I remember her now. Yeah, yeah.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, she got made into a martyr because she got threatened after the 2020 election.Andrew Keen: Well, lots to think about, Bill. Very good conversation, as always. I think we need to get rid of old white men like you and I, but what do I know?William Deresiewicz: I mean, I am going to keep a death grip on my position, which is no good whatsoever.Andrew Keen: As I half-joked, Bill, maybe you should have called the piece "Post-Erection." If you can't get an erection, then you certainly shouldn't be in public office. That would have meant that Joe Biden would have had to have retired immediately.William Deresiewicz: I'm looking forward to seeing the test you devise to determine whether people meet your criterion.Andrew Keen: Yeah, maybe it will be a public one. Bread and circuses, bread and elections. We shall see, Bill, I'm not even going to do your last name because I got it right once. I'm never going to say it again. Bill, congratulations on the piece "Post-Election," not "Post-Erection," and we will talk again. This story is going to run and run. We will talk again in the not too distant future. Thank you so much.William Deresiewicz: That's good.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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Thank you Dick Horn, The AudhDreamer, catherine coppolino, Penelope Lane, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.* AOC exposes the real fraud in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. The truth about layoffs, tax cuts, and more: Firing government workers do little to mitigate waste, fraud, and abuse. The fraud and abuse of tax cuts, defense contracting, and more. [More]* Sanders Warns Musk's Call for $700 Billion in Cuts Is a ‘Prelude' to Social Security Privatization: “Why do you lie so much about Social Security? To get people to lose faith in the system, and then you can give it over to Wall Street,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. [More]* United progressive activists must do what the Democratic Establishment has failed to do: We must not sit back and will the Democratic Establishment into action. They seem unable to cope with the new political paradigm shift. It is a new battle, and the old guard is resistant to addressing it head-on. [More] To hear more, visit egberto.substack.com

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Seth takes a closer look at the progressive political world pointing fingers over Trump's victory, with Bernie Sanders saying Democrats abandoned the working class and pundits saying Democrats were too woke. Jim Parsons talks about the decision to grow out his beard, performing in two Broadway shows in a row and never having seen Our Town before being cast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thomas Frank is a political analyst and writer. He wrote the book “Listen, Liberal”, a thorough but fair dissection of the failures of the Democratic Establishment and in particular, the Obama Administration. He also wrote “The People, No”, which provides a factual analysis on what populism actually is. In the contemporary political landscape we're living in, he's one of the most important thinkers out there. I try not to be too topical with this show, as that's not the theme, but we recorded this a week after Donald Trump's 2024 victory. Whether you're listening the day it drops, or years from now, I hope it's a solid snapshot of where we are, or were.

How the Democratic Establishment handed victory to Donald Trump. With Jeremy Cohan in New York. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go to https://expressvpn.com/winston and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free!Donald Trump's conclusive MAGA victory is a rebuke of totalitarian woke ideology. Or so says Michael Shellenberger, one of America's foremost investigative journalist and founder of PUBLIC.We sit down in NYC in the aftermath of the conclusive election results to discuss what VP Kamala Harris' loss means for the Democrat Party, and what the Trump victory means for America.Michael lays down the White Pill - an optimists celebration of what has happened. What does this mean for woke ideology, the politics of envy, political correctness, and the suffocating Progressive politics of the last 20 years.We examine the results themselves, the demographics, the numbers compared to previous elections and the psychological motivations of the different political movements.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Linktree: https://linktr.ee/winstonmarshall-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SUBSCRIBE: If you're liking the show and want to stay updated, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Simply hit the 'Subscribe' button below the video, and then click the bell icon to ensure you get all our notifications. Thanks for your support!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Substack: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/X: https://twitter.com/mrwinmarshallInsta: https://www.instagram.com/winstonmarshallLinktree: https://linktr.ee/winstonmarshall----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters00:00 - Michael Shellenberger on the 2024 Presidential Election04:58 - Emotional Reactions and Media Fracturing06:03 - Democratic Establishment and Woke Culture32:57 - Media Fragmentation and Political Realignment41:24 - Elon Musk and the Future of Free Speech55:57 - Economic Challenges and Political Dynamics1:01:20 - The Role of Podcasting & The Future Of The Democrats1:15:12 - The Impact of the Election on Global Politics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When I found my way to Trump's rallies in the Summer of 2020, I felt like I had crawled out of a desert searching for signs of life. No one could know my discovery. I had to keep it a secret. If anyone found me out, I would be MAGA. I would be a Trump supporter, and that would be the end of my career and most of my relationships.Despite how often I'd become the target of the fanatical mobs that rule over social media and the Left writ large, I'd knew not to cross the Trump Line. That would be the last straw. I would be shunned, I knew.Yet, every time I got that notification from Right Side Broadcasting's YouTube channel that Trump was about to take the stage, even now, four years after I first began watching them, my mood was immediately lifted.I love those people, I would always think. I didn't belong anywhere but I somehow belonged there. They still had their senses of humor well intact. They loved this country and were proud of their heritage and patriotism. They were every skin color, every gender, even gay and trans - all under the same tent, an Island of Misfit Toys - all MAGA.Once I figured out what great people they were, how their time with Trump was precious, I began to worry. What was going to happen them, I wondered. My side had all of the power. They were the Empire and they wanted nothing but the total obliteration of MAGA and especially Trump.I thought, if only they could thaw out their systematic dehumanization campaign, if I could somehow break the spell cast upon them by the media and their social media feedback loops, then they could just shrug and move on with their lives.But that isn't what happened. We summoned a hungry beast that needed to be fed. It was anger at having a political enemy, but there was more to it than that. It was a sadistic, indulgent bacchanalia of hatred that united the Left and became its main form of entertainment.Who are Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert if they aren't sucking on the bones of Trump night after night? Whatever audience now remains to watch their terrible shows or the MSNBC power lineup is there for one reason and one reason only. The beast is hungry, and the beast must be fed.I too once felt the hate within me. It connected me to my community online. It seemed like nothing else mattered all of a sudden except this rising hysteria none of us could manage. We began purging anyone accused of assault or racism. There was no due process. It was simply a matter of tossing them out of utopia.We'd be fine after that, at least for a little while. But the beast always got hungry again; sooner or later, it would return to Trump.We were winners when it was just us, Obama, and our online paradise. Now, we were holding back the inevitable pendulum swing, desperate to cling to the past, unable to relinquish our war on Trump. If only we could stop him for good and destroy him forever, things would return to normal.But they never did. For me, the hatred began to feel like toxic sludge in my veins. I couldn't take it, not for one more minute. I knew enough about history to know what we were doing was wrong. Yet, how do you convince the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Hollywood, and the entire Democratic Establishment that what they're engaging was not just bad for our country but dangerous?It didn't occur to me until much later, long after I escaped the bubble of the Left, that they needed to hate Trump because it was the only way they could feel something, anything.Their addiction meant they needed a stronger and stronger hit. It wasn't enough to call him a rapist or racist. It had to get all the way to dictator, all the way to a threat to end American democracy as we once knew it.Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 2001 that “newspapers of Utopia … would be terribly dull.” And that's what's happened to culture on the Left. It's boring without Trump. They kept dragging him back to their cable news shows daily, dragging him back to the headlines in the New York Times. On X, Trump humiliation was the only fun they seemed allowed to have.Trump, then, was their release valve. They were dancing with the Devil and they liked it, they liked it. It became an abusive relationship for them, with Trump's defiance keeping them engaged in the fight. The more he fought back, the more satisfying it was to see him crushed.Here is Megyn Kelly: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

Two weeks ago, California was hit by devastating, unprecedented storms. The National Weather Service in San Francisco issued its first ever hurricane force wind warning since records have been kept, and then Los Angeles received more than 60% of an entire year's rainfall in one day. The question of how to avert the impending climate catastrophe, and what it will take to dramatically change course in order to salvage a livable planet, is absolutely central to building the overall working-class fightback internationally against capitalism. What's clear is that the capitalist elite have completely failed to even begin to address the crisis, and in fact, have been doubling down with trillions more dollars in corporate handouts for fossil fuels. The planet just had its hottest year on record in 2023 and this past January was the warmest ever recorded. The crucial 1.5-degree-Celsius benchmark that scientists have warned about for decades, the benchmark that the Paris Climate Agreement was meant to prevent, has been breached.  In the face of climate disaster, how do working and young people build a fightback? What will it take to win victories on the scale of what is so urgently needed? We're joined by Jed, Los Angeles resident and Workers Strike Back activist, to discuss these questions! On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

In this episode, Alex starts out angry. He talks about both Michelle and Barack Obama are now sounding the alarm on 2024 and worry about the outcome of the election. Alex argues that the Democratic Establishment has been too late to respond and is still inept and resolving these issues; it now seems like it is too late to pivot, even as Obama has met with Biden to recommend some changes. Next, Alex looks at a new House Democrats report that provides evidence of Trump bringing in millions of dollars from foreign governments and organizations. All of this is happening as House Republicans continue their fishing expedition (impeachment inquiry) into Joe Biden. It seems like Trump can dodge actual evidence while Biden can't evade false attacks from any side. Finally, Alex looks into some troubling reports out of Illinois. Breaking from tradition, Trump hasn't signed an Illinois pledge that states that a candidate for president will not engage in an attempt to overthrown the government. Trump campaign spokespeople say this is because he will win, but what happens if he doesn't win? 

Is TikTok to blame for youth hating Biden? Are these 3rd Party candidates hurting Biden? Is it really Ageism that's hurting Biden? I try and explain what's being missed by the Democratic Establishment.

The SubStackLand community gains another valuable member. We welcome him to the NFL SubStackLand:Key Insights:* Bing-AI says “Brian Beutler” is pronounced “Bryan Bootler”—that is, rhymes with “lion shooter”, which shows how far political incorrectness has penetrated Silicon Valley…* Noah has figured out a solution to his problem of losing the screws to his microphone stand: duct tape…* This started with Brad poking Brian on his belief there was a golden age of comity, common purpose, and energy in the left-of-center political sphere back in 2005 to 2008—saying that this misconceived as all mourning for a lost golden age is misconceived…* Noah and Brad today welcome Brian to SubStackLand, he having just created a substack and done 16 substantive posts in two weeks, which is a trult amazing rate of production…* Brian's key insight is that since the start of 2019 Democrats have been amazingly, alarmingly, disappointingly timid in not aggressively going after every corner of TrumpWorld for its corruption, and doing so again and again and again…* Brian is, in a sense, the quantum-mechanical antiparticle to some combination of Matt Yglesias and David Schor…* Brian believes he coined the term “popularism”…* Back in 2005-2008 nobody said that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were sabotaging their own party by encouraging Barack Obama to run in the primaries…* Judging by results, the current strategy of the Democratic Establishment is doing rather well: a plus three standard-deviation outcome in the 2022 midterms, for example…* That midterm result may be because, by our count no fewer than seven of the nine justices had assured senators that Roe v. Wade was “settled law”. And four of those seven then voted to overturn it in Dobbs…* Biden really cares about safeguarding democracy, and his actions should all be viewed with that in mind…* Hexapodia!References:* Brian Beutler: Off Message SubStack * Scattered Thoughts On Israel, Hamas, Gaza, And Related Matters: A possibly ill-advised post* VIDEO: How Trump Normalization Really Works: Why the political media slept on Trump's call for Mark Milley's death and other baffling decisions* Charts To A Gun Fight: How the Fighting Democrats of 2007 became the timid, focus-grouped party of today.* Trump Reaches A Fateful Crossroads: We should welcome it, but acknowledge the peril* Thursday Thread And AMA: Kind of a lot's happened since the last one* "The Most Important Issue In Our Politics": A Q&A with John Harwood on his interview with Joe Biden about threats to democracy* Five Thoughts On Karmic McCarthy: For now, we schadenfreude* VIDEO: How Profit Motive Distorts The News: And why liberals and Democrats should talk about it* The Era Of Hostage Taking And Small Ransoms: Republicans made Ukraine aid the price of avoiding a shutdown. Where does it end?* The Democrats' Lost September: You guys awake?* Breaking Down The GOP Debate: Reaction chats with Matthew Yglesias and Crooked Media's What A Day podcast* Wednesday Debate Thread: Let's watch Republicans be weird and scary together!* Baggage Check: Life disclosures, so readers can know me, and where I come from, a little better* VIDEO: Why The News Struggles To Say Republicans Are Responsible For The Government Shutdown: And why the public is likely to catch on anyhow* Biden Should Work The Media Refs On Impeachment: Everyone knows the impeachment is b.s., so he should say that* Welcome to Off Message: Refuge from a world gone mad* Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius at the Bridge * Plutarch: Life of Tiberius Gracchus +, of course:* Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep Lost Past Golden Ages:Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius at the Bridge: ‘[Then] Romans in Rome's quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old.Then none was for a party; Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great:Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold:The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.Now Roman is to Roman More hateful than a foe,And the Tribunes beard the high, And the Fathers grind the low.As we wax hot in faction, In battle we wax cold:Wherefore men fight not as they fought In the brave days of old…Plutarch: Life of Tiberius Gracchus: ‘Formerly the senate itself, out of goodwill, conceded many things to the people, and referred many things to them for deliberation; and the magistrates themselves, even when they had no need of the people, summoned them to assemblies, and communicated with them on public affairs, not wishing them to feel that they were excluded from anything or insulted. But after the people had made the authority of the tribunes too great, and through them had tasted arbitrary power, then indeed there was no longer any room for deference or concession on the part of the senate; but they were forced to fight for everything as for a prize... Get full access to Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality at braddelong.substack.com/subscribe

Many share the same sentiment that Julian Castro articulates here. It is best that this is addressed now because it could bite us when we have no recourse. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/support

The Democratic Party is about to get pummeled in the mid-term elections next week. Scott and Bob followed up on their recent discussion with Noam Chomsky on the devolution of the Democrats and their abandonment of working class issues since the 1970s (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Ngm...) by discussing the their failure to offer up a real resistance to the Republicans. We take a historical approach--talking about the GOP-stolen election of 2000 and the Democrat's failure to fight in Florida when Bush had people in the streets and Gore rejected any suggestion to have similar protests. We talk about the failure of Barack Obama to help anyone win office other than himself and point out that the Democratic Party suffered huge losses in state races throught the Obama years. We also talked about the weak and timid responses to the GOP's attacks on the Democrats emphasizing the Crime and Inflation issues. And of course we discussed the way the Democratic Establishment punches left, blaming Sanders, The Squad, the Greens, and others while never taking responsibility for their own failures. And we finish by paying tribute to the great Mike Davis ---------------------- Outro// "Lifestyles of the Rich and Comfortable" By Piss Control Links// Beto vs. Greg Abbott (https://bit.ly/3FHKG6I) WaPo: Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats (from 2020) (https://wapo.st/3t06jrb) Texas Bail Reform Reduced Jail Time and Crime, New Study Says (https://bloom.bg/3fvr773) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MU4QrxAY Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies. With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one! Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com. This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.

Tulsi Gabbard once stood on principle and bucked the Democratic Establishment to stand as an agent of change. But now she stands alongside those who stand for everything she claimed to hate. Is it a search for relevance, or a political play at something down the road? Two former Gabbard 2020 staffers, Reed and David, join the show to talk about the turn of events that has seen Tulsi forgo her own principles. follow at https://www.linktr.ee/subversivepod #libertarian #tulsi #newhampshire --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justin-odonnell0/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justin-odonnell0/support

You might call this the Peach Pundit Podcast Sports Edition as the guys talk about the changes in the Athletic Department at Georgia Tech, as well as the pending rules changes in baseball, but political junkies can relax, there's plenty of politics in this episode as well. Topics include: - Peach Pundit is under new management. - Condolences to Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan and his family on the passing of his Mother. - Georgia Tech fires the football coach and athletics director, and Duncan's name surfaces - The Water Wars are over and we won! - Ahead of Hurricane Ian, Governor Kemp issues a State of Emergency - Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin comes to the ‘Burbs and stumps for Kemp. - Democratic nominee for State Superintendent of Schools is getting the cold shoulder from Abrams and the Democratic Establishment. - Baseball's World Champions visit the White House, spurring discussion about the name “Braves” but ignoring the work the Braves do with the Native American community. - The Braves haven't bunted yet this season, does it matter? Be sure to subscribe to the Peach Pundit Podcast on Apple Podcasts (bit.ly/PeachPunditPod), Spotify (bit.ly/PeachPunditSpotify), and Patreon (www.patreon.com/peachpundit). We're grateful for our growing list of Patreon subscribers.

June 29, 2022 - We analyze the Democratic primaries for statewide offices and consider what comes next with Neal Kwatra, founder of Metropolitan Public Strategies.

In this highly-anticipated episode, Ernest talks about the progressive smack down of the PA primaries, Black Lives Matter's questionable money spending, Darius Crooks in hot water, the demise of From Privilege to Progress, and much more. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation on Monday, giving a lengthy speech in which he aired national grievances and laid out the historical claims he believes Russia has to Ukraine. Tulsi Gabbard's newly-announced speaking appearance at CPAC draws ridicule. Trump's new social media app has 'technical problems.' Michigan coach Juwan Howard punched a Wisconsin Coach. A proposed Tennessee bill would designate some gun owners as law enforcement. Progressive Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is shaking up the Democratic Establishment.Hosts: Cenk Uygur, David Shuster See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

India Walton was the Socialist shoe-in to the Mayor's office in Buffalo. But thanks to some Establishment chicanery, she lost. The Democratic Establishment partnered with Republicans to force a write-in campaign for Byron Brown. #IndiaWalton Written, Edited & Filmed by Krish Mohan Music: "Arms Race" by Jesse Jett Download their album: https://jessejett.bandcamp.com Follow, Subscribe & Donate: https://linktr.ee/KrishMohanHaha Thanks to our current Patrons: Adam & Swarna, Aiden, Lee & Eleanor, Eduardo, Gregory W., Gregg, Hayley, Jason, Joseph, Michael, Uli, Vickie, Jay, Kathryn, Zack, Patrick, Bharat, Andrew S., Jay Jackson, Martha, Sara, Teri, Marisa, Kathy, Dustin, Nancy, Ryan R., Michael S., & Don!

India Walton was the Socialist shoe-in to the Mayor's office in Buffalo. But thanks to some Establishment chicanery, she lost. The Democratic Establishment partnered with Republicans to force a write-in campaign for Byron Brown. #IndiaWalton Written, Edited & Filmed by Krish Mohan Music: "Arms Race" by Jesse Jett Download their album: https://jessejett.bandcamp.com Follow, Subscribe & Donate: https://linktr.ee/KrishMohanHaha Thanks to our current Patrons: Adam & Swarna, Aiden, Lee & Eleanor, Eduardo, Gregory W., Gregg, Hayley, Jason, Joseph, Michael, Uli, Vickie, Jay, Kathryn, Zack, Patrick, Bharat, Andrew S., Jay Jackson, Martha, Sara, Teri, Marisa, Kathy, Dustin, Nancy, Ryan R., Michael S., & Don!

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As the world is ablaze, Biden virtue signals to progressives, but will he actually do anything?

The crew discusses the results of the primary elections in New Jersey and Virginian and looks at the debate playing out between the two parties over how much wealthy Americans and corporations should be paying in taxes. They also consider whether a new poll showing that America's reputation has rebounded abroad is a good or bad use of polling.

We discuss the sweeping victory of the DSA-backed slate in the Nevada Democratic Party races, the finalization of the covid relief bill without a minimum wage hike, and more. support the show: patreon.com/duedissidence

Sagar 'J' Kamnani & Uday Mehta discuss what President-Elect Joe Biden can get done without a Senate majority (4:30), the infighting between progressives and the Democratic Establishment (22:30), how far demographic change can carry the party (39:00), the three types of Trump voters in 2020 (45:30), and the culture of politics through the lens of 'Borat 2' and Dave Chappelle's 'SNL' monologue (53:30). Help out in Georgia Senate races: www.votesaveamerica.com/adopt-a-state/

The boys sit down to discuss the Lincoln Project grift, breaking down the election results to show what impact the Lincoln Project had on voters and how the election results demonstrate an unequivocal rejection of the Democratic Establishment. Reddit Shoutouts: r/leftistveterans & u/StaceyEve Smash that subscribe button, drop us 5 Stars on Apple, and check out our patreon to support the show patreon.com/realpolitik

Megyn Kelly is joined by journalist and host of "Useful Idiots," Matt Taibbi, to discuss the legacy media and the rise of independents, cancel culture, the Democratic establishment, why "White Fragility" is "the dumbest book ever written," the stories the media has gotten wrong in the Trump Era, his journalism background and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShowFind out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Megyn Kelly is joined by journalist and host of "Useful Idiots," Matt Taibbi, to discuss the legacy media and the rise of independents, cancel culture, the Democratic establishment, why "White Fragility" is "the dumbest book ever written," the stories the media has gotten wrong in the Trump Era, his journalism background and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I got to know Professor Michael Crispin Miller when he wrote to tell me how much he enjoyed my remarks at the Mises Institute's Jekyll Island conference on the lockdowns and the rest of the disastrous government response to COVID. When I found out, first, that he'd been targeted in the classroom for proposing that students consider more than one point of view on the subject of masks, and second, that he's an interesting leftist who opposes the lizard people as much as you and I do. I knew we would have an interesting discussion -- and not just about COVID -- and I was right.

I discuss what the Democratic Establishment wants and the actions taken to get it. I talk about what we citizens want and what we must do to achieve it. I give my thoughts and conclusion on the matter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/james-fauntleroy/support

I talk about how they lied on purpose and no matter what people want to say it's the Democratic party fault. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/christopher-ckarke5/support

The Democratic Establishment is worried. At least they should be.

AOC was up against the machine in a grudge match. Wall street was dumping money into the race fueling her establishment rival Michelle Caruso CabreraBut the establishment Democrats failed and MCC was unable to muster the support she needed to win proving the far left now controls the Democratic party and its only a matter of time before the corporate Democrats are gone for good.This doesn't necessarily mean Republicans and Trump will lose though. Many leftists argue this proves America is progressive and wants more far left policy. But all this proves is that the Democratic party itself wants AOC and says little about moderate and independent voters.If this trend continues and the polls are correct however, this could be the end of conservatives in this country forever. Trump is not guaranteed to win and so far things are looking bad for him.#AOC#Democrats#RepublicansSupport the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

The crew looks at the dynamic between Democratic upstarts and the establishment as primary voters head to the polls in New York and Kentucky.

On today’s show… Progressive Candidate, Lauren Ashcraft, will join us to discuss her primary challenge against longtime incumbent, Carolyn Maloney, in New York’s 12th Congressional district. Heather “Digby” Parton will, once again, help us get through the news of the week… And we will re-air our interview with Mondaire Jones, who is running in an open seat in New York’s 17th District.

This isn't just about lockdowns and riots. This is about a long-standing plan to deconstruct America. This is a revolution. At least that's what the radical left hopes it is.

Are you tired of voting for Democrats who promise change but keep the status quo? Are you tired of being shamed for bringing up alternatives? Don't agree with the statement "vote blue no matter what?" Well good news! Malcolm X was tired of it too!  We invite activists and poets AM Pressman, A Scribe Called Quess and Matt Sedillo to discuss the relevance of Malcolm X's seminal speech "The Ballot or the Bullet." Follow on IG @MatrixPodcast Like us on facebook.com/MatrixPodcast Email questions, comments, show topics & troll posts to ExitTheMatrixPodcast@gmail.com  

The chaos seems to be slowing but Trump still finds a way to act like a bratty child. In The State Of Things, we get into a novel take on bailouts, Trump's exchanges with the media, and Michigan's lockdown protests. On The Rundown, I explore the idea that maybe the Democratic Establishment doesn't want to win the election in 2020. For more righteous content, find me on; * Instagram - @connerwanders ( https://www.instagram.com/connerwanders/ ) * Youtube - Conner Moore ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsundjxh2AdBTR0lHJh2S6A ) * TikTok - @connerwanders ( www.tiktok.com/@connerwanders )

Stimulus Payments:https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/non-filers-enter-payment-info-hereSnowden: Government, privacy, and Coronavirushttps://nypost.com/2020/03/30/snowden-coronavirus-pandemic-could-lead-to-extended-government-surveillance/Bernie Sanders vs Democratic Establishment:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/31/bernie-sanders-election-trump-democratic-establishment?fbclid=IwAR2bTNGTqeIIjZDnig9a80pqIcOJU3g2RekW0KORbLRKfz9iVkniVYBCPfIBloomberg's Firm Bidding to run Biden's Campaignhttps://theintercept.com/2020/04/10/bloomberg-hawkfish-biden-campaign/VICE Interview with Snowdenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjnveyJo

Lindsey Boylan is running for US Congress in in New York’s District 10 as a primary challenger against establishment figure, Jerry Nadler. During our conversation Mrs Boylan shares what motivated her to become politically active and her reasons for running for US Congress in particular. With concerns for the future regarding the climate, income inequality, … Continue reading S04E05: Taking On The Establishment And COVID 19, with Lindsey Boylan

Progressives seek a constitution that provides wealth redistribution, controls human behavior, and dictates financial markets. With the Democratic Establishment working hard to defeat the stated democratic socialist in favor of one they call moderate; the scale of moderate is the real question. In today’s episode, we’ll explore how Joe Biden’s vision for America is one more of autocracy and less liberty. I’ll present evidence from JoeBiden.com that suggests Joe is just a different flavor of democratic socialist and clearly highlights his Progressive tendencies. Be sure to share today’s episode with your friends because the media is hiding the truth and it is up to us to shine the light of liberty on the move to remake America.

In this week's episode of the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure," hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss the intensifying spread of the Coronavirus and its impact on countries throughout the world.    Rania highlights the latest escalation in the war in Idlib in Syria and why it escalated. Later in the show, Rania and Kevin react to the results from Super Tuesday and the power move the Democratic Party establishment executed against Senator Bernie Sanders, which worked incredibly well for elites. The episode concludes with a debate: Kevin takes the position of an optimistic "Bernie Bro" while Rania articulates the view of a cynical person, who may still support Sanders but does not think there is any chance the Democratic Party will ever allow Sanders to have their party's nomination.

*** Twice the content. None of the ads. Patreon.com/thebpdshow ***Let me tell you a story of one of my experiences with the "Black Democratic Establishment" to demonstrate the absurdity of what Biden and his staffers are trying to do: protect the Establishment from critique by rolling out their Black pokemon.--The Democratic Establishment has coalesced around a man who is suffering from severe cognitive decline. I know it seems "unseemly" to discuss this, but this is a serious vulnerability that Trump will absolutely exploit. And so we'd be irresponsible not to discuss.

On this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, to talk about Joe Biden's huge victories in key Super Tuesday states, what the lack of Black voter turnout for Sanders says about broader failures of the progressive movement to engage with Black communities, and how Bloomberg's withdrawal from the race and rapid endorsement of Joe Biden looks to impact the electoral prospects of both Biden and Sanders.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Pablo Vivanco, a Chilean-Canadian journalist and former director of Telesur English, to talk about the mass arrests of protesters in Chile this weekend, how the timing of the uptick in protest activity is related to the upcoming Constitutional referendum in April, what Chilean football clubs have to do with this latest re-intensification of the uprising, and the role of Chile's fascist right wing in mobilizing against the Constitutional referendum amid a broader campaign of violence and intimidation against leftists. In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Raymond Caldwell, Producing Artistic Director of Theater Alliance in Washington, DC, to talk about the new play “This Bitter Earth” currently running at Theatre Alliance through March 22, how the play's dissection of the relationship of a biracial couple struggling to understand their place within society and social movements, the ways the play explores the limits of traditional "allyship" from white supporters of racial justice, why he feels it's so important to emphasize stories of Black love in a cultural landscape dominated by Black trauma, the need for cultural experiences to translate into social practice, and how Theater Alliance is using its roots in the historically Black and working-class Anacostia community to critically address social and systemic issues.Later in the show, Jacquie and Sean are joined by Bryan Weaver, Founder and Executive Director of Hoops Sagrado, to talk about Shaq's new and unfortunate hairline, how the Democratic establishment pulled off one of their greatest upsets of US political history, what may be motivating Elizabeth Warren's continued participation in the nomination race, whether Bernie Sanders still has a viable path to securing the nomination and if his rules suggestion (that the candidate with a plurality of votes at the convention be given the nomination) may come back to bite him, whether Jim Clyburn's role in manufacturing Biden's momentum is being overstated, why every campaign but Biden's seemed to be suffering from a lousy ground game, why Sanders' lack of youth voter turnout spelled disaster for his nomination hopes, whether over-confidence among Sanders' supporters had anything to do with his poor numbers, which of Trump's latest bullying victims had it coming, and what separates a good basketball movie from a "turrible" one.

BV discusses how the Dem Establishment Empire strikes back with Klobuchar and Buttigieg drop out and endorse Biden. Is this too late to stop Bernie Sanders? On News Radio KKOB.

On today's podcast we get into the Godfather-esque culling of the field by the Democratic Party establishment to bolster Joe Biden against Bernie Sanders. Also, Biden makes another embarrassing gaffe, Democrats politicize coronavirus, and Chris Matthews is out at MSNBC. First Tom Steyer dropped out, then Pete Buttigieg, and now Amy Klobuchar has quit, all right before Super Tuesday. Why now? Because the Democratic Party establishment is moving to consolidate support for Joe Biden to counter the rise of Bernie Sanders. Will it work? Can Biden hold it together long enough to win, or at least make sure Sanders doesn't get enough delegates to win? The former Vice President got off to a rocking start on that front, making a major, embarrassing gaffe on the same day he gained the support of former rivals. We cover it all. As Democrats insist it's Republicans who are politicizing coronavirus, we have a montage of them doing just that themselves. Finally, Chris Matthews is out at MSNBC. At one point, Hardball was must see TV - an honest and engaging news discussion program where all opinions were welcome and respected. It devolved into a left-wing choir-preaching show, like the rest of the network, and became unwatchable. None of that was a problem for the brass at the network, but when Matthews fell out of favor with the liberal mob, he had to go. We have the story.

Air Date 3/3/2020 Today we take a look at the election through the lens of billionaire politics, from the candidates in both parties to the heads of media organizations to the way a pro-billionaire mentality trickles down to the establishment class on the media and Democratic Party. And what has all of this money been able to buy in terms of opposition research and narrative building against Bernie Sanders? Red-baiting at its most naked and pathetic. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) EPISODE SPONSORS: Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Bernie Sanders’ Rise Prompts Media Meltdown, Establishment Panic: A Closer Look - Late Night with Seth Meyers - Air Date 2-25-20 Seth takes a closer look at some pundits and members of the Democratic establishment panicking after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus in a landslide. Ch. 2: Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of Bernie Sanders - CounterSpin - Air Date 2-28-20 The embarrassing journalistic choices by the mainstream media in their coverage of the primary elections. Ch. 3: Michael Bloomberg Is Buying the Election - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 2-19-20 Intercepted investigates the multitude of problematic and harmful aspects of Michael Bloomberg. Ch. 4: The Billionaire Election with Anand Giridharadas - Democracy Now - Air Date 2-26-20 Anand Giridharadas discusses Bloomberg buying his way to the Democratic nomination Ch. 5: Sanders & Socialism Debate Between Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman & Socialist Economist Richard Wolff - Democracy Now - Air Date 2-24-20 A debate on Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism featuring two well-known economists, Paul Krugman and Richard Wolff. Ch. 6: Bernie's Fight Against Trump, the GOP, The Democratic Establishment, and Corporate Media - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 2-26-20 Jeremy discusses the establishment's resistance to Bernie. Ch. 7: The state of the race - The Bugle - Air Date 2-29-20 A comprehensive explanation of the state of the Democratic Primary race VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Get a message going! - Jeff from Charlotte, NC Ch. 9: What do we do if Bernie gets screwed over again? - Anonymous FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments on navigating the post-primary election landscape MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Middle - American Moon Bicycle That Horse Ithica - Sketchbook One Dirty Sleeve - Wax Museum Skyway - The Balloonist Wingspan - Bayou Birds Cicle DR Valga - Cicle Kadde Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Facebook!

The Democratic Party Is CRUMBLING, Super Tuesday Is The Day We Watched The Democrats Collapse. Joe Biden is the official frontrunner, the best the Democratic Establishment could offer.A man who can barely speak and could barely win without establishment support. What makes Democrats think that Sleepy Joe will be able to win against Trump?NothingBut Bernie is worse in the eyes of the Democrats. The fracturing of the left and conflict with far left activists has left them no choice. The only option establishment Democrats have at this point is to sabotage their own party with a weak and ineffective b team candidate in an effort to stifle Bernie Sanders.Meanwhile Trump is coasting by as usual, laughing all the way as Republicans enjoy party unity under the current president.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

Joe Biden won the first primary state ever in his third attempt at the presidency and the establishment continues to will him as the candidate to topple progressives via Bernie Sanders.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jodi Dean, a professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a commentator on political issues, whose latest book is called “Comrade.”Super Tuesday is tomorrow, with voters in 14 states and American Samoa going to the polls to cast votes for Democratic candidates for president. California and Texas are the big prizes, with about a third of all delegates necessary for the nomination between them. The Democratic Party elite are desperate to stop Sanders. A second American has died of the coronavirus, this time a man in his 70s from Kirkland, Washington. The virus apparently is more virulent than previously thought, and its victims likely have been undercounted in the United States because of delays in testing. Meanwhile, the disease is spreading across Europe and the United States. Mike Wong, the Vice President of the San Francisco chapter of Veterans for Peace, joins the show. The United States and the Taliban signed an agreement over the weekend laying out a 14-month timetable for full US troop withdrawal in exchange for the prevention of attacks against the US and allied foreign forces. Both sides pledged to support a lasting peace between the Taliban and the Afghan government. But this morning, Taliban forces attacked a football match in Khost Province and said that they had no intention of ceasing operations against government forces. Brian and John speak with Dr. Marvin Weinbaum, the Scholar-in-Residence and director of the Middle East Institute’s Center for Pakistan and Afghanistan Studies. Turkey shot down two Syrian fighter jets over the weekend hours after Syria shot down a Turkish drone. The Syrian Army also captured a major highway in Idlib Province that had been controlled by extremists. Turkish president Erdogan announced that he would meet with Russian president Putin in Moscow on Thursday to discuss Syria. And in the meantime, Turkish police arrested and harassed a Sputnik News journalist and released him only after intervention from President Putin. Ambassador Peter Ford, the former British Ambassador to Syria, joins the show. Monday’s segment “Education for Liberation with Bill Ayers” is where Bill helps us look at the state of education across the country. What’s happening in our schools, colleges, and universities, and what impact does it have on the world around us? Bill Ayers, an activist, educator and the author of the book “Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto,” joins Brian and John. In this segment, The Week Ahead, the hosts take a look at the most newsworthy stories of the coming week and what it means for the country and the world, including Joe Biden’s victory in south carolina, why Pete Buttiegeg actually dropped out of the race just two weeks after CNN proclaimed him the front runner, tomorrow’s Super Tuesday vote, the intensifying conflict between Turkey and Syria and Russia, and more. Sputnik News analysts and producers of this show Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek join the show.Monday’s regular segment Technology Rules is a weekly guide on how monopoly corporations and the national surveillance state are threatening cherished freedoms, civil rights and civil liberties. Web developer and technologist Chris Garaffa and software engineer and technology and security analyst Patricia Gorky join the show.

Why did Michelle Obama Stop? “MMF – The Clarity Hotline” remembers how Michelle Obama first started -and then stopped talking about food and how it relates to health and weight. Industry insiders believe that the powerful food lobbyist forced this shift. The die is cast - Michelle immediately stops talking about sugar and runs out to play on the "Jimmy Fallon Show". America's Covert Attacks on Relationships! “MMF – The Clarity Hotline” starts miniseries examining covert mainstream attacks on traditional relationships? What is today's "Cointelpro" relationship agenda? Bernie Sanders and the term Socialist! Why is the "Democratic Establishment" insisting the Bernie Sanders cannot win the presidency? Who actually taught Americans especially African Americans to hate socialism and prefer capitalism? Black Talk Media Project desperately needs your help to continue BTRN's 2020 media operation so please make a tax-deductible donation today!

As Bloomberg launches a massive attack ad campaign against Sanders ahead of the South Carolina and Super Tuesday primaries, Sanders is facing a multi-pronged battle against the most powerful political and economic forces in the country. From Columbia, South Carolina, Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the red-baiting of Sanders, offers his views on Democratic Socialism, and suggests Bloomberg should have run against Trump in the Republican primary. Jackson, who won the South Carolina primary in 1984 and 1988, discusses his presidential runs and Joe Biden’s claims of involvement with the civil rights movement.  Intercepted producer Laura Flynn and Intercept journalist Aída Chavez report from Nevada on how the Latinx community propelled Sanders to victory. Plus, Jeremy Scahill takes on the red-baiting scare tactics being deployed against Sanders.

Bernie is up in two of the biggest Super Tuesday states & he's on top of the national polls. What will Democratic Establishment do? Democrats will choose.

A Coding Error in a New App Creates Chaos in Iowa; The Company That Supplied the App's Ties to the Democratic Establishment; Who Is Best to Campaign on Pocketbook Populism? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Adam Schiff's Eloquence Falls on Deaf Ears in the Senate; The Likely Backlash to a Sanders' Victory From the Democratic Establishment; An Update on the Global Spread of the New Coronavirus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Happy Palindrome Day. The One After 909. President Trump's Super Bowl Lightning Round -- A Political Genius At Work. Notes on the Communist Bernie Sanders, new Democrat frontrunner. Democratic Establishment panics, piles on poor Bernie, rigging things all over again. Fallout from the Sanders People? Puny Mini-Mike Bloomberg demands "boxes" to stand on for the Dem Debates. CNN tries to deny it. But we know the score. Where's Hunter? Needs specialty Burisma plates on his Porsche Panamera. A caller describes life behind the Iron Curtain. Loretta Lynn declares Country Music "dead." Is she right? A musical celebration of palindrome history. Bernie's heart in Havana. With Listener Calls & Music via Camila Cabello, They Might Be Giants, The Beatles, Loretta Lynn and Dwight Yoakam.

Too Much Monkey Business. Schiff's Groundhog Impeachment Summarium. Team Trump's Six-Point Defense. Crisply rendered. Setting the record straight on Jason Crow's struggles with the facts. Colorado's own Impeachment Manager Crow gets calmly and professionally dismantled by Trump Attorney Jay Sekulow. Meanwhile, Socialist Bernie Sanders pulls ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire. Panic from the Democratic Establishment. Warren, Hillary and Obama all pile on Poor Bernie. As does Norah O'Donnel of CBS, who blasts Sanders for not knowing how much all his Free Stuff Socialism actually costs. Kleptocrat Biden still hanging on. Democrats in quite the pickle for 2020. The Bowl of Cold Oatmeal. Wild World. A Way to Survive. I'm Only Sleeping. With Listener Calls & Music via The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Jamey Johnson, Cat Stevens, Chris Cornell and Redd Volkaert. 

Episode 772 | I signed up for Obamacare this weekend and LORD these prices. **NOTE** Twice I mistakenly said "copays" when I meant "deductible." **The real problem with Obamacare is that it didn't address the profit motive in the insurance industry.--New Jersey freshman Congressman Jeff Van Drew was the pick of the Democratic Establishment and the DCCC. The establishment jumped into the primaries to prop him up and suppressed a Black woman progressive. Well, Jeff Van Drew is converting to the Republican Party.--Bernie Sanders retracts his endorsement of Cenk from TYT. It's a big mess and it sucks. But part of me feels like they should have had foresight enough to know this was going to happen. --Looks like I need to address weaponized identity politics again.

Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) came out swinging against Hillary Clinton’s charge that she is a “Russian asset” who will throw next year’s presidential election to President Donald Trump by running as a third-party candidate. Read the article here!

Corporatist Democrats through centrist orgs like Third Way are developing messages to sabotage M4A in the minds of Democrats. They are playing with fire.

The gang is back. They talk about: 1. The Last Czars on Netflix 2. The Democratic Establishment's new war against the AOC quartet and Saikat Chakrabarti in particular 3. The last half of the episode is an interview with Ryan Grim about his new book "We've Got People" available here: https://strongarmpress.com/catalog/weve-got-people/

Establishment support for Biden sexist. While Biden is ahead in the polls, it is by design and if he accidentally wins the primary, Trump wins.

Is the Democratic Establishment pulling one over the base by allowing GOP's three-dimensional fear of Biden chess? And Tamara Shealey discusses the reparation debate.

Is the Democratic Establishment pulling one over the base by allowing GOP's three-dimensional fear of Biden chess? And Tamara Shealey discusses the reparation debate.

Interview with Mike Gravel --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/statuscoup/support

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss several major global stories and how reporting by independent journalists informs the public beyond what is put forth by mainstream media. The situation in Venezuela, Brexit, and protest movements can take on a different image depending on who is reporting on the story.Guests:Alexander Mercouris - Editor-in-Chief at TheDuran.com | The Brexit Party, UK Politics & European Union ElectionsTed Rall - Political Cartoonist & Syndicated Columnist | 2020 Presidential Candidates and Foreign Policy Jamarl Thomas - Progressive Political Commentator | Contentious US-China Trade Relations Ford Fischer - Independent Journalist | Events at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC & Covering the News as an Independent JournalistDuring the first hour of the show, the hosts are joined by Alexander Mercouris, Editor-in-Chief at TheDuran.com, for a wide ranging conversation about various foreign policy topics with a focus on Brexit & the politics of the United Kingdom. How has 'The Brexit Party' under the leadership of Nigel Farage gained a great deal of support in recent months, and how are the upcoming European Union elections impacting the political landscape in the UK and around Europe?Despite the important role that foreign policy plays in the direction of the United States, many Presidential candidates tend to spend a limited amount of time discussing these issues. Ted Rall, a Political Cartoonist & Syndicated Columnist, returns to the show to discuss the different foreign policy positions of the Democratic 2020 Presidential candidates, how the progressive vote could be split amongst these candidates, and how the Democratic Establishment will attempt to navigate their upcoming Presidential Primary.Trade disputes between the US and China have contributed to recent market fluctuations and economic uncertainty. Progressive political commentator Jamarl Thomas joins the program to give his take on the US-China trade situation, foreign policy issues involving both Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the issue of increasing online censorship.For the final two segments, Garland and Lee are joined in-studio by Independent Journalist Ford Fischer to talk about his coverage of recent events at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC. Additionally, they will discuss past rallies and protests that Ford has covered along with how he chooses to cover the news as an independent journalist.

After an unintentional hiatus, John is part of the problem on Twitter. The NRA comes to Indianapolis. Elizabeth Warren takes the lead on the student loan debt crisis. And the most exciting presidential candidate enters the field #GravelGang Plus, Tulsi Gabbard takes on the Democratic Establishment, CNN sandbags Sanders (again!) and the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile make a guest appearance. Follow John: @shrekjohn Upcoming live dates: shrekjohn.com

Joshua Collins, who is running for Congress in Washington's 10th Congressional District, on challenging the Democratic establishment, why Congress needs more young people, building a progressive party, increasing the minimum wage to $24 and passing a Green New Deal. The Hardy Report is a political news and current affairs podcast, bringing you interviews with a range of activists, campaigners and politicians from across the political spectrum in the United States and the United Kingdom. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehardyreport/support

Today we are talking to Rafael Khachaturian again about the DSA or Democratic Socialists of America. You may have heard the name, but aren't sure what it is. You may, like me, be familiar with the DSA but remain skeptical of its goals, its effectiveness, or just the word "socialism." Rafael, whose been involved with the DSA in Bloomington, IN and Pittsburgh, PA is here to allay those fears. Democratic Socialists of America Eliza Griswold, "The Hard-Left Candidate Taking On the Democratic Establishment in Southwestern Pennsylvania," New Yorker (May 11, 2018). Eliza Griswold, "A Democratic-Socialist Landslide in Pennsylvania," New Yorker (May 16, 2018). The Public Sphere is a podcast from Contrivers Review. Visit www.contrivers.org to read great essays and interviews. You can also sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, or like our Facebook page. If you have a suggestion for the podcast, or an essay or review you'd like to pitch, get in touch with us through social media or email. The Public Sphere is on iTunes where you can rate and review us. Please consider supporting The Public Sphere and Contrivers' Review on Patreon. Thanks for listening.

On the biggest primary day of the year, with voters going to the polls in eight states, the national Democratic establishment got the last laugh.

Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for Governor of Ohio. We chat about his positions on issues and his relationship to the Democratic establishment

Recorded June 8, 2016. (After all state primaries, with DC yet to be heard.) There's a group that has been suppressing the vote, suppressing free speech with executive orders, and blocking information about the media's Superdelegate-picked presidential nominee. No, not those scary Republicans; this is the work of those "pragmatic progressives" (also known as Establishment Democrats). How deceptive do they have to be and how much devastation must their policies wreak before someone will tell the truth? Leave it to people like us (like you?), because apparently Establishment Democrats and progressive media are too busy cowering in the corner at the mention of Trump to speak it. Long after this election is over, Bernie's transformative movement will continue. The movement will continue fighting for the disenfranchised, for those less fortunate, for criminal justice reform ...even if the Democratic Establishment, bound by the wishes of their corporate donors, only pays lip service to these issues. We persevere in our support of candidates who are Not For Sale, and join with progressives organizing to return the reins of government to the 99%. And right now, over at the What Would Bernie Sanders Do podcast, we continue to inform you how you can support progressive candidates and organize to fight the Establishment. Keep learning how you can not only Feel The Bern but Be The Bern!   The What Would Bernie Sanders Do Podcast is Dr. Barry Kaufman with Host Darren Stephens and is produced in Chicago by Ruth Kaufman. Information on the podcast is supported by the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatwouldberniesandersdo/. Learn more about how you can help the campaign by going to www.berniesanders.com. Find us on Twitter and Instagram @wwbsdpodcast. Music by Robin Bienemann http://robinb.org/music.html.