Bernie Fears, Troops and Tanks in Cities, and the Dismantling of National Intelligence

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the unnecessary freakout within the Democratic Primary and the events that should be freaking out everybody: namely the rise of fascism and authoritarianism that is going largely unnoticed.

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0:00.0	When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did?
0:05.0	He had a massive literacy program.
0:07.0	Is that a bad thing?
0:08.0	Even though Fidel Castro did he?
0:10.0	A lot of dissidents imprisoned in-
0:12.0	That's right, and we condemn that.
0:14.0	So the president has a pick, a new pick, to lead all 17
0:19.0	different arms of the intelligence community and yet has no intelligence
0:23.6	experience.
0:24.6	I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and the general
0:30.6	Renault calls up Churchill and says, it's over.
0:34.5	And Churchill says, how can it be?
0:36.0	You've got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over? He said it's over. And Charles said, how can it be? You've got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?
0:38.9	He said it's over.
0:43.7	Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week's Muckrake political podcast, your political podcast that is all about
0:50.7	freaking out over the political moment. And Nick,
0:54.2	how are you doing?
0:55.5	I am freaking out by so many different things.
0:58.4	I don't even know what I,
0:59.9	what is freaking me out specifically anymore.
1:02.8	It's so bad that I watched the beginning of Up last night.
1:06.4	And I was just weeping into a,
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