(2016/05/27) Trump and those who surround him (Fascism Watch)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 May 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1016
Today we take a look at the Trump campaign’s building trend toward fascism and white supremacy based on his actions and those of the people he keeps around him
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Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: One of the major problems with governing people - Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Ch. 3: Song 1: Hitchhikers Guide Theme Song
Ch. 4: Act 2: Ignoring the signs of creeping fascism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 4-1-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Here Comes The Wave (instrumental) - Silence Is Sexy
Ch. 6: Act 3: The ONE Trait That Predicts Who Supports Trump - The @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 01-22-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Question Authority - Fran Archer
Ch. 8: Act 4: Donald Trump's Top Foreign Adviser, Joseph Schmitz, is a Former Blackwater Executive - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 03-25-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Crusader - Saxon
Ch. 10: Act 5: Heidi Beirich from @SPLCenter on White Supremacy and the Trump campaign Part 1 - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 3-4-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: A Dose of White Supremacy - Neffe Odom Kragh-Muller
Ch. 12: Act 6: Kathleen Frydl (@kfrydl): Sorry folks, it's fascism - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 3-26-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Call It Even - Scott Simons
Ch. 14: Act 7: Democrats Beware: You Don't Want Trump as President! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-05-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Consequences - The Robert Cray Band & The Memphis Horns
Ch. 16: Act 8: Trump's List of Supreme Court Picks Is an Utter Disaster - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 05-19-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: Worlds Apart (feat. Kerli) - Seven Lions
Ch. 18: Act 9: Trump Ally’s Not So Subtle Threats - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-23-16
Ch. 19: Song 9: All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Ch. 20: Act 10: How Not To Normalize Trump - On the Media - Air Date: 5-13-16
Ch. 21: Song 10: Tomorrow Never Knows - Alison Mosshart & Carla Azar
Ch. 22: Act 11: Elizabeth Warren has Some Thoughts of Donald Trump - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-05-16
Voicemails
Ch. 23: Resisting the urge to buy - Eammon from La Habra, California
Ch. 24: Remember the landfill - Zach from Atlanta
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 25: Final comments on third-party voting as a prisoner's dilemma game theory problem
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | We have to recognize that within the United States, |
| 0:03.0 | we've given rise to things that if they don't qualify |
| 0:06.6 | under the specific definition of fascism, |
| 0:09.0 | that's hardly any consolation. |
| 0:11.1 | I mean, they come awfully, awfully close. |
| 0:17.2 | This program is made possible by the members |
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| 0:24.5 | Now, welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast |
| 0:27.0 | with Hubsiday from CounterSpin, |
| 0:29.0 | the David Pakman show, Democracy Now, |
| 0:31.2 | Humorless Queers, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:33.6 | The Young Turks, and on the media. |
| 0:35.6 | But we start with some words of wisdom from Douglas Adams. |
| 0:45.9 | The major problem, one of the major problems |
| 0:48.8 | for those several, one of the major problems |
| 0:50.7 | with governing people is that of whom you get to do it, |
| 0:53.6 | or rather of who manages to get people |
| 0:56.4 | to let them do it to them. |
| 0:58.3 | To summarize, it is a well-known fact |
| 1:00.2 | that those people who most want to rule people |
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