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The Al Franken Podcast

184: YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on his new book Shameless

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Content creator Brian Tyler Cohen joins the podcast for the first time to talk about his new book Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy.  In the book, he discusses the many ways that the Republican Party uses confusion, artificial slogans and, of course, flat out lies to remain in power. We also discuss the myth of the liberal media and how so many of Donald Trump's lies are allowed to flourish in the right wing echo chamber. 


Subscribe to Brian's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/briantylercohen

Subscribe to Brian's podcast No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: https://briantylercohen.com/podcast/

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today, you know, for a change.

0:09.5

Brian Tyler Cohn, who has over 3 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, is my guest.

0:16.3

That's more than 10 times the number that I have, which reminds me, if you're listening to this on

0:21.6

YouTube, please subscribe. Anyway, if you're like me, you're feeling a lot more optimistic

0:26.6

about the election than you did when the, you know, Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

0:32.8

came to a close. And conversely, Republicans are feeling a lot less confident about the sure thing

0:38.8

they thought they had coming. What a difference a month makes. It's going to be a close race,

0:44.2

but now Harris is leading in six of the seven battleground states, all seven within the margin of

0:50.7

error. But this is a very different story than it was just a few weeks ago.

0:56.2

A lot can happen in the next two and a half months, both nationally and internationally.

1:01.0

We do not know where this is going, but the trends are such that Donald Trump is looking

1:06.6

a lot less confident and I'd say even a bit panicked.

1:10.7

It appears from the data that Harris has picked up support. a lot less confident, and I'd say even a bit panicked.

1:16.2

It appears from the data that Harris has picked up support among people of color,

1:20.0

women and young people, which makes perfect sense.

1:23.0

And so the Republicans are going to cheat.

1:30.4

They're giving local election officials the power to certify or not certify vote totals.

1:37.8

Normally, say town officials or county officials will simply count votes and report the totals onto the state.

1:43.1

And that's where the totals are certified by the Secretary of State. In Georgia, it appears that local voting

1:46.3

officials are claiming the right to certify, setting up possible mischief, and by that I mean

1:52.7

cheating. And it appears that they're trying that in other battleground states. We're going to

1:58.6

have Mark Elias back on the podcast soon to look at all the voter

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