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🗓️ 14 April 2025
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0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
0:05.0 | She has already done a 180 inside the Trump administration. |
0:10.0 | Lake was tapped to leave Voice of America, which delivers news to audiences around the world. |
0:14.0 | But shortly before she took the helm, Trump gutted both Voice of America and its parent, the U.S. Agency for Global Media. |
0:23.3 | So now, and this is according to The Washington Post, |
0:26.1 | Carrie Lake has been reassigned to the State Department to help oversee the dismantling of the organization she almost led. |
0:32.1 | Talk about government efficiency. |
0:33.6 | Yeah, I find it amusingly stupid that they decided to put in charge of dismantling the voice of democracy, an election denier, which tells you everything you need to know about... |
0:46.3 | You find it stupid or two on the nose? |
0:48.3 | Well, that too. I mean, because it's just all of it, all of it. I mean, it is a fundamental. |
0:54.8 | It goes back to the last conversation. |
0:56.8 | You've got a budget analyst who these people in this Doge world and Trump world think is woke |
1:05.5 | because he's looking at numbers and deciding how best to deliver services to people who need them, whether |
1:14.1 | it's end of life care, whether it's whatever, right? And so the same is true with what |
1:20.8 | we see with our global presence, which we were talking about at the beginning of the show. |
1:26.4 | The voice of America is the voice of America around the |
1:29.8 | globe. |
1:30.8 | It is a soft power which levels up our influence in a way that hard power cannot, even sometimes |
1:38.2 | diplomatic power cannot, because why is touching real people who are sitting there listening on their radios or on the |
1:46.8 | internet so to put carry lake in charge of that to dismantle it tells you everything you need to know |
1:53.8 | about how silly and stupid these efforts are in the end because there are nothing more than |
2:00.4 | performative destruction of |
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