(2017/02/14) If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu (Trumpian Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 February 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1079
Today we look at the plans being cooked up by Trump and the GOP to screw the people and enrich the corporations
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans To Kill Elizabeth Warren's Greatest Accomplishment - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-18-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Rip-Off - Jimmy Cliff
Ch. 4: Act 2: David Dayen On Trump's Infrastructure Plan - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 11-25-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Destructive - Sentry.
Ch. 6: Act 3: Trump's tax plan and how the world may react - Economic Update w @profwolff - Air Date 12-15-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Screwed - Kid Cudi
Ch. 8: Act 4: Trump’s Anti-Regulatory Agenda Will Cost Economy Billions - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date: 12-18-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Monday - Jon Brion
Ch. 10: Act 5: Trump DESTROYED Goldman Sachs During Election, Now Will Be Goldman Sachs President - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date 12-22-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Bamboozled - Omar and the Howlers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Why we need the fiduciary rule that Trump wants to stop - Economic Update w: @profwolff - Air Date 2-10-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Working Reward - The Haymarket Squares
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell Your Senators to Support & Protect the #FiduciaryRule via @IndivisibleTeam - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: This fickle world - Theo Bard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Extreme Vetting for People, But Not for Banks (w/Guest William Black) - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 02-07-17
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Long commutes equals unhappiness - Travis in Ft. Worth, TX
Ch. 18: Trump supporters with a license for bigotry - V from Central New York
Ch. 19: A perspective from the south - Kevin from Louisiana
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on why facts are not enough to win an argument
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
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Call your Representatives and Senators to demand they publicly support and protect the Fiduciary Rule: 202-224-3121 (Capitol switchboard number)
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Fiduciary Rule is Now in Question. What's Next for Investors? (The New York Times)
Indivisible Guide Twitter Moment: Call Your Members of Congress on the Fiduciary Rule (Indivisible Guide)
Elizabeth Warren's Letter to Acting Secretary of Labor, Edward Hugler, On the Fiduciary Rule (Warren.senate.gov)
A hot investing startup wrote an open letter to Donald Trump, and is setting the stage for a battle on Wall Street (Business Insider)
Market Recap - Executive Actions Planned for Dodd-Frank and Fiduciary Rule (Personal Capital)
"You Might Die Younger" Without the Fiduciary Rule (Personal Capital Blog)
Retirement Plans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO)
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| 0:00.0 | The swamp is not being drained. |
| 0:01.6 | Make America great again because Hillary was the Goldman Sachs candidate. |
| 0:06.1 | Multiple Goldman Sachs people brought on to Trump's administration. |
| 0:10.4 | You've been bamboozled, Trump supporters. |
| 0:12.6 | I hate to break it to you. |
| 0:17.3 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:20.1 | To support the work we do, get commercial free versions of every episode |
| 0:23.6 | and members-only bonus content, |
| 0:25.2 | visit the Contribute tab at bestofaloft.com. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today |
| 0:31.6 | from the Young Turks, the Majority Report, Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolf, |
| 0:36.0 | Ring of Fire, the David Pakman Show, and the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:46.4 | When President-elect Donald Trump was campaigning, |
| 0:49.4 | one of the things that people were able to brush under the rug was his bigotry, |
| 0:54.1 | his sexism, his misogyny, because they believed as working-class Americans, |
| 0:59.2 | he was the only candidate that would look out for them. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, fast-forward to today, and it seems as though the individuals that he is working with, |
| 1:07.3 | and people that he plans on filling his cabinet with, |
| 1:10.1 | have no interest in protecting the working class, or consumers in America. |
| 1:15.1 | Case in point, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, |
| 1:18.1 | which was created in 2010 and is the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:23.2 | Now, a number of Republicans are pushing to basically dismantle |
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