#1271 The moderates are coming! (Beto, Biden and Buttigieg)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 5/10/2019
Today we take a look at the three moderate white guys sending a shiver up the collective legs of the members of the Democratic Party establishment and the mainstream media
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Sam Does a Deep Dive on Beto - The Majority Report - Air Date 3-20-19
Beto brags about his small donor contributions. His voting record is terrible for a Democrat. Former staffers came forward about working for the faux progressive.
Ch. 2: Is Pete Buttigieg Progressive with Ana Kasparian - #NoFilter - The Young Turks - Air Date 4-8-19
Buttigieg's views seem great on paper, but he's not clean about them. He has problematic industries funding him, has worked for big pharma and doesn't understand working poor.
Biden's legislative history include the 1990's crime bill disaster that fueled mass incarceration and his insistence that common people who are tricked into credit card debt be forced to pay for it forever.
Ch. 4: Just Say No to Joe Biden with Zach Carter - The Michael Brooks Show - Air Date 4-7-19
Biden is a crusader against working people, and he doesn't understand the new progressive left. He's tied to banks, corporations and one of the most regressive crime bills in history.
Ch. 5: Can Progressives Stop Biden, the Credit Card Candidate? - The Real News - Air Date 4-28-19
Norman Solomon and Jaqueline Luqman discuss Joe Biden and his problematic voting record. He is an agent of racism and corporate America, in the short term he might beat Trump, but it won't change anything.
The past behavior of former Vice President Joe Biden toward women has sparked conversation around the boundaries governing physical contact and consent. Biden has said that norms have evolved since he entered the public sphere.
Ch. 7: Biden, Autonomy and Consent with Vanessa A. Bee. - Humorless Queers - Air Date - 4-7-19
Biden loves giving women rubs and smelling their hair, without their consent. Many women are coming forward about his actions and he needs to be held to a better standard. Not being Trump isn't enough.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: The accelerationist strategy of Bernie or Bust didn't work - Anthony from Utah
Ch. 10: Continuing the strategy discussion for electing the most progressive candidate possible - Laura from Alameda, CA
Ch. 11: Renewed hope for the future - Corey from New Jersey
Ch. 12: Thoughts on the state of the election - Sarah from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 13: Final comments on the ebbs and flows of political energy and the effects of outrage fatigue
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Joe Biden Isn’t the Answer(The Cut)
What Happened When Pete Buttigieg Tore Down Houses In Black And Latino South Bend(Buzzfeed)
Beto 2020 Has No Reason to Exist(Slate)
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so huge thanks to everyone who contributes |
| 0:07.9 | on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:10.3 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall be |
| 0:14.7 | looking at three of the white guys who say they're here to save the day. |
| 0:18.7 | We start off with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, followed by Beta O'Rourke, and the rest on Joe Biden. |
| 0:24.6 | Clips today come from the Majority Report, The Young Turks, Democracy Now, The Michael |
| 0:29.3 | Brooks Show, The Real News Network, The PBS NewsHour, and Humorless Quares. |
| 0:40.4 | The interesting thing about Beta O at this point is, and we're going to have more time to |
| 0:45.5 | see if he comes out with... |
| 0:49.2 | He's obviously going to come out with a platform, he's obviously going to get to some degree |
| 0:53.4 | more specific. |
| 0:56.3 | He has a different problem than Kamala Harris has. |
| 1:00.9 | Kamala Harris, her policy, her platform to the extent that she has a record has been in |
| 1:10.1 | the minority in the Senate, not the same opportunity to vote for or against things necessarily |
| 1:18.8 | over the years, but has to a certain extent in the Senate. |
| 1:24.1 | It has a fairly good voting record, nothing, you know, for what it's worth, has a fairly |
| 1:31.3 | good voting record, not such a great record as a prosecutor. |
| 1:36.7 | Beta O'Rourke does not have a good voting record as a Democratic lawmaker, and in fact, |
| 1:45.9 | he has a bad one from the perspective of a Democratic voter. |
| 1:52.1 | I think from the perspective of a Republican voter, probably a pretty good one, if you |
| 1:58.6 | were a rational person in a Republican party, if that would even make sense anymore. |
| 2:04.3 | And so he's going to be a little bit evasive, and now there are some people coming out. |
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