#44 How The Fu*k Did We Get Here? Pt.2

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sami, Alise and Bryan continue their deep dive into today’s American political climate with part 2 of “How The Fu*k Did We Get Here?”. At 1:45 Alise dissects the culture war which includes the rise of Fox News, Infowars and Breitbart. At 25:00 Bryan rehashes the 2016 election and why Hillary lost, citing Trump out maneuvering her in the media, Bernie Sanders assaulting her character during debates, and the Comey letter. At 41:50 Sami breaks down Russia’s tampering in American politics from the rise of Putin as a dictator, to Trump’s involvement in Russian real estate and the US government's utter ineptitude in understanding cyber warfare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the vet's us up podcast I'm Elise Rallis I'm Sammy
0:06.7	Fish-Bine I'm Brian Russell Smith and for those of you who just tuning in this is
0:10.8	part two of our how the fuck did we get here series if you haven't
0:16.4	listened to part one I mean you could still listen to this part but you should
0:20.2	probably listen to part one yeah like it would be I really do I mean you
0:24.7	could listen to them out of order but we put them in this order for a reason yeah I
0:28.3	and it's it's sequential yeah each action has a equal and what's
0:33.7	I don't know what is that what is science
0:37.1	media company
0:38.7	I don't know about science or philosophy
0:41.4	right
0:42.1	what are facts I think last episode was a bit more academic and this one is a bit more emotional.
0:50.0	Emotional. Emotional.
0:51.0	Yes.
0:52.0	I'm
1:00.3	I know so we ended the last episode with Brian talking to us about the rise of the tea party the loss of local
1:03.6	elections gerrymandering and sort of like this rise of like the conspiratorial
1:08.0	psychos.
1:08.7	Psycho wing.
1:10.1	Yeah, remember Glenbeck.
1:11.9	Oh my God.
1:13.9	He's like kind of like reconciled,
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