#43 How The Fu*k Did We Get Here? Pt.1

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sami, Alise and Bryan are back, just in time for vacation. This week they give you a brief history about how today’s American political climate has become what it is in part 1 of "How The Fu*k Did We Get Here?". At 3:08, Sami breaks down the circulation of dirty money throughout the political system, from the top 1 percent owning 25 percent of all the income in the country, to the NRA’s backing of Republicans. At 17:30 Alise breaks down the courts discussing Citizens United and Mitch McConnell’s use of the nuclear option regarding the Supreme Court. At 39:30 Bryan examines Gerrymandering and backlash to the election of Barack Obama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Betches-Up podcast I'm Elise for Alice
0:07.1	I'm Sammy Fishbine. I'm Brian Russell Smith and for those of you who are just
0:10.6	tuning in the Betches- sub podcast is usually your weekly
0:14.9	rundown of all the crazy shit that's happened in the news explained by your
0:17.8	two funniest friends but today it's three funniest friends but that going to be different this week because this episode was
0:25.4	pre-recorded. Yes. Right now we're all on vacation. If you're listening to this we are
0:31.1	on vacation. Yeah so fuck the news. I have taken
0:35.6	Twitter off of my phone. Yes BBC news has been deleted as well. I
0:39.8	specifically got... Yeah BBC very fair and balanced. Yeah I mean I just try and get you know the facts I specifically got a hotel in Berlin because that's where I am thank you
0:57.5	That makes you pay for Wi-Fi so I'm like going to try to not be on Wi-Fi. So you're like capitalizing on your own frugality. Yes exactly.
1:01.6	Usually we read the news so you don't have to but this week you're on your own.
1:06.0	Read the news yourself. We did read a lot of news in preparation for this.
1:10.0	It wasn't just, it's not topical news.
1:12.8	Yes.
1:13.8	Okay, so what we're doing in this episode is we're basically doing an episode that's kind of themed.
1:19.0	How the fuck do we get here?
1:21.0	Like, how do we get into this position in America?
1:23.4	And it didn't just pop up, like, Donald Trump didn't just, like,
1:26.4	meet Vladimir Putin yesterday.
1:28.6	This has been going on for a long time.
1:30.8	So, and I think a lot of times when we report the news weekly it gets
1:34.1	lost yeah the reasons for things the background behind why they happen gets a
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