#1245 Don't call it a shutdown
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 January 2019
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Air Date: 1/29/2019
Today we take a look at the planned chaos and fever dream governing style cooked up by the radical, anti-government conservatives running the country, otherwise known as the shutdown
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Trump will take the blame - @offkiltershow - Air Date 1-9-19
We break down everything you need to know about the shutdown with Sam Berger
It's not a "government shutdown", it's a liberal government shutdown––or, more precisely, a backdoor rightwing coup. Our words should reflect that.
Ch. 3: The First Shutdown - Planet Money - Air Date 1-15-19
In 1879, Congress and the President were locked in a battle over the rights of African-Americans. It led to the first government shutdown.
Ch. 4: Why the shutdown hits the poor the hardest - @tmbsfm with @_michaelbrooks - Air Date 1-14-19
We break down the government shutdown affects the working-class and how government welfare programs regulate the poor.
We discuss how the discourse around the shutdown takes for granted that government functions like the military are sacrosanct, while government functions that provide services to the poor must constantly be justified and deliberately funded.
Trump’s government shutdown is seriously impacting national parks, federal scientific research, public health and safety.
Ch. 7: Fact-checking Trump’s Shutdown - Mother Jones - Air Date 1-22-19
Host Jamilah King is joined by Angie Drobnic Holan, the editor of Politifact, to help you separate fact from fiction as the shutdown continues.
Ch. 8: The politics of government shutdowns - Past/Present - Air Date 1-29-18
The history of government shutdowns.
Ch. 9: Norm Ornstein on the nihilism of the anti-government right - Diane Rehm Show - Air Date 1-17-19
The government shutdown, week four. Diane talks to longtime political analyst Norm Ornstein, one of the most prolific chroniclers of Washington's descent into partisan dysfunction.
Ch.10: This is planned chaos - Gaslit Nation - Air Date 1-8-19
We discuss the cornered panicked criminal in the White House, the dangerous vulnerabilities of Trump’s shutdown and his American carnage TV ratings grab.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on idealism, pragmatism and chasms
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| 0:52.0 | episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts in which we shall learn about the planned |
| 0:56.2 | chaos cooked up by the radical anti-government conservatives running the country otherwise |
| 1:01.2 | known as the shutdown. But don't call it a shutdown. Cook today come from off-kilter, |
| 1:06.8 | citations needed, planet money, the Michael Brooks show, deleture account, the Green News |
| 1:12.0 | report, Mother Jones Radio, past present, the Diane Reamshow and Gaslit Nation. |
| 1:18.4 | How did we get here? Why are we in shutdown, Sam? So, Democrats and Republicans had come |
| 1:31.2 | together on a bipartisan agreement to keep funding the government. They'd struck the agreement, |
| 1:37.4 | the Trump administration was on board. And then unfortunately, somebody let Trump watch |
| 1:42.9 | TV that night. And people said some mean things about him on Fox News. And he thought the |
| 1:48.1 | best way to handle this situation was to blow up the whole deal, shut down the government |
| 1:51.8 | and hard millions of people. And this is all back in December. This is all back in December. |
| 1:55.8 | You know, and it was interesting. A lot of times elected officials will sort of try and, |
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