(2017/02/03) Witnessing an Emerging Autocracy (Trump’s America)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1077
Today we look briefly at Trump’s cabinet, his communication style, his inaugural speech and the foreboding nature of it all
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump's Dark Money Cabinet Is Going To Deconstruct The American Dream! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-28-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Free Education (feat. Treez & Young DJ) - Jawaan Larue
Ch. 4: Act 2: Trump's Cabinet Poised To Loot The Country - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-28-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Crook - Niel Nasset
Ch. 6: Act 3: Masha Gessen on the rules for surviving autocracy - Trumpcast from @Slate - Air Date 11-14-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Ch. 8: Act 4: A Taxonomy of Trump Tweets - On the Media - Air Date 1-13-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Misinformation - Silvanus
Ch. 10: Act 5: We Need To Talk About That Donald Trump Press Conference - Jay Smooth (@jsmooth995) - Air Date 1-12-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Tobacco Road - Common Market
Ch. 12: Act 6: Examining Trump's inauguration speech - The Bugle (@hellobuglers) - Air Date 1-20-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Supervillain - Schaffer The Darklord
Ch. 14: Act 7: The mood of the inauguration - @EdgeofSports w Dave Zirin - Air Date 1-25-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: Fake - Dhiego Ferraz
Ch. 16: Act 8: Trump's team exhibits classic abuser behavior - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 1-23-17
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Followup after receiving some advice - Matt from Pittsburg, PA
Ch. 18: How Trump is tearing people apart - Evan from Texas
Ch. 19: Thoughts on the cis-centeredness of the women's march - Megan from Seattle
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on Mr. Money Mustache and, unrelatedly, the divide within feminism
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:20.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast with Coups today from the Tom |
| 0:24.6 | Hartton program, The Young Turks, The Trumpcast, On the Media, The Bugle, Edge of Sports |
| 0:30.0 | Radio with Dave Zyron, and The Bradcast with guest host Angie Coyote Roach. |
| 0:38.7 | It looks like we're about to enter into a brand new era. |
| 0:41.5 | I want to read to you a piece that was published, this was back in 2008. |
| 0:51.9 | And actually I think it was before that. |
| 0:54.4 | I did something like this on the air, just kind of pulled it out of my head. |
| 0:58.9 | And then a guy named John Gray and Cincinnati, Ohio, did a much more elegant version of |
| 1:03.3 | it. |
| 1:05.1 | And I have no idea if his followed mine or if it was just great minds think alike or if |
| 1:09.3 | we were all thinking in those terms back then, because this was just a month after George |
| 1:15.7 | W. Bush, excuse me, after Barack Obama. |
| 1:19.4 | No, this was at the end of the term of George W. Bush. |
| 1:24.2 | Obama was running for president, but there had not yet been election. |
| 1:27.5 | But here it is. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a day in the life of Joe middle class Republican. |
| 1:32.3 | And I want to share this with you and then contrast it with what Trump is trying to do. |
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