#1457 GOP Authoritarianism Will Likely To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 November 2021
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Summary
Air Date 11/24/2021
Today we take a look at the state of the ever-increasingly authoritarian Republican Party as they hack the media by being too terrible to hold to account, hack the democratic process through gerrymandering and endlessly rebrand because in their core they stand for nothing.
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SHOW NOTES
A Denver journalist is taking on the incredibly low standards the media has set for GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), focusing on the “the cruel, false, and bigoted things she says for attention and fundraising.”
As the world grapples with the humanitarian fallout in Afghanistan, former four-star U.S. General Stanley McChrystal is watching it unfold knowing all too well what's on the line.
Ch. 3: The Unmistakable Drumbeat of Authoritarianism - The BradCast - Air Date 11-16-21
The drumbeat of rising authoritarianism in the U.S. is getting ever louder. Republican-controlled state legislatures employ extreme partisan gerrymandering in Ohio and Georgia, robbing minority voters of representation and positioning the GOP to take over
“The elites are out to get you and your hard-earned pay.” “We’re spending too much on protecting foreign nations and not enough defending our own borders against immigrant invaders.” “China is taking your job and will soon take over your phone.”
Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton & Nick Hauselman discuss Steven Bennon turning himself in to the FBI briefly before holding a press conference to threaten Democratic leadership.
“We should be concerned about what it means in terms of the safety of members of Congress and the nature of the modern Republican Party. But what it means for the very health of our American democracy,” says Chris Hayes in the wake of Rep. Gosar’s censure
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
"Presidents are not kings, and the plaintiff is not president." These were the words of a U.S. Federal judge rejecting former President Donald Trump's request to withhold records about the January 6th insurrection.
Republican Senator John Kennedy made a complete fool of himself while attempting to hammer Saule Omarova, Joe Biden's pick to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which regulates banks.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Aging and Conservatism - Quai from North Carolina
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on toughness philosophy vs the ever-raising baseline
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:06.8 | take a look at the state of the ever increasingly authoritarian Republican Party as they hack |
| 0:12.4 | the media by being too terrible to hold to account, hack the democratic process through |
| 0:18.2 | gerrymandering, and endlessly rebrand because in their core they stand for nothing. |
| 0:24.8 | Clips today are from the majority report, Amon Porin Company, the Bradcast, citations |
| 0:30.6 | needed, the Muckrake political podcast, and all in with Chris Hayes, with additional members |
| 0:35.8 | only clips from Amon Porin Company and the rational national. |
| 0:46.7 | Lauren Bobert, Congressperson from Colorado, this is really important. |
| 0:51.4 | You know, actually, you wonder, card before the horse, Colorado is like, it's not teetering |
| 0:59.0 | in the way that like Virginia is. |
| 1:01.8 | And I don't think that's a coincidence based upon like sort of like the history of things |
| 1:09.6 | like racism and whatnot. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, my understanding is the CRT stuff particularly didn't do terribly well in Colorado. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | And I think, you know, I think if there was a way to map and it probably is like, what |
| 1:22.6 | was it? |
| 1:23.9 | The roots, what was that book that we had where you could actually see voting patterns |
| 1:28.1 | based upon the number of slaves to slave owner ratio, deep roots, I think it was called. |
| 1:39.0 | But one wonders if the changes in Colorado bring this about or what the cause and causation |
| 1:46.9 | is for a local newscaster to have this sort of revelation and articulate it on local TV |
| 1:55.0 | in Denver. |
| 1:57.0 | This is a guy named Kyle Clark, I don't know anything about him, but this is I think a |
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