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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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-- Neil Vallelly, Lecturer in Sociology and Rutherford Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and author of the book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" joins David to discuss neoliberalism, capitalism, utilitarianism, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3lKUu7O
-- Anti-transgender bills sweep the nation, becoming the latest moral panic among conservatives
-- 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley appears on Sean Hannity's Fox News show and is unable or unwilling to cite a single policy difference with her opponent, failed former President Donald Trump
-- 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley's first campaign event goes bad quickly, even involving radical right wing Pastor John Hagee
-- 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley hilariously demands a cognitive test for politicians age 75 and over, and Donald Trump happens to be 76 years old
-- Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is now copying how Donald Trump says "China"
-- Failed former President Donald Trump slams his 2024 Republican primary opponent Nikki Haley in a strange campaign email
-- An increasingly desperate Donald Trump claims he only hired Nikki Haley as Ambassador to the United Nations in order to help South Carolinians by getting her out of her Governorship
-- Arizona Republican State Senator Wendy Rodgers claims that Kari Lake will soon be instated a governor
-- Voicemail caller asks David how he celebrates Christmas, despite the fact that he is Jewish
-- On the Bonus Show: Sex-trafficking investigation into Matt Gaetz dropped, new childhood obesity guidance raises worries over eating disorder risk, Lauren Boebert has a 2024 challenger, much more...
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0:00.0 | MUSIC |
0:16.0 | Anti-transgender bills are sweeping the country. |
0:19.2 | Brightwingers are obsessed. |
0:20.7 | This is what they call a culture war. |
0:23.8 | We call it a campaign of persecution |
0:27.4 | and a move in the continued authoritarian direction |
0:30.6 | that these right wingers have gone in for some time. |
0:33.2 | But it is anti-transgender sentiment |
0:36.8 | that is now fueling much of what we are seeing |
0:39.9 | among cultural right wingers. |
0:41.6 | I don't even want to call them cultural conservatives. |
0:44.1 | Cultural conservatism might be like, |
0:46.4 | oh, I don't know. |
0:47.2 | My wife makes dinner four out of seven weeks, |
0:50.6 | four out of seven days of the week or whatever. |
0:52.5 | Like this is not cultural conservatism. |
0:55.0 | This is something very, very different. |
0:56.6 | And vice has a report on new data released |
0:59.9 | by the trans legislation tracker. |
1:02.5 | There are, it's February. |
1:04.3 | There are already twice as many anti-trans bills |
1:08.1 | making their way through state legislatures |
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