A Fabulous Episode w/Nelson Lichtenstein

Pod Damn America

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4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Anders talks to Labor Historian Nelson Lichtenstein about his new book, "A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism." Book info: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691245508/a-fabulous-failure Live Show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-w-the-antifada-pod-damn-america-tickets-691958234707

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,
0:16.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:19.0	No, no, no, not God bless America.
0:21.6	God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
0:26.6	God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.
0:31.6	God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
0:43.9	Hello and welcome to Pod Damn America.
0:48.8	Anders Lee here.
0:50.6	I have hijacked the podcast this week.
0:54.0	That's right.
0:55.0	Jake and Alex are tied up in the corner,
0:57.9	and I am doing a solo episode on one of my favorite topics,
1:02.3	and that is the Clinton administration.
1:06.5	Now, some of you scratch your heads at home,
1:08.1	you're thinking, what pre what pray tell relevance does the
1:11.6	Clinton White House have to my life in the year 2023 and the things we care about on this podcast
1:18.2	and here's the thing I finished a book which is not something I get to say very often
1:26.3	a few times a year I read a lot of books,
1:30.5	finish you of them. I have a thousand hustles going on right now. That's what I call books
1:36.2	that I'm reading. Just all these pages being turned throughout the week in different places,
1:44.0	one at a time.
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