Brazil Votes For Democracy While SCOTUS Does Not

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the ramifications of the Brazilian election for president, as Bolsonaro loses by 5 points and is priming the country to reject the second round election later this month. They then pivot to the Supreme Court's docket this fall and how undemocratic they can make the country before exposing Elon Musk for the ineffectual tech boy wannabe that he is.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Moncrank podcast. Guess what? Nick Houselman's back.
0:08.6	You're back. You missed you. We missed terribly. How are you doing, Nick? I'm well. I'm well. I'm in Chicago and, you know, still, still traveling, but here to talk about what's going on right now.
0:20.2	Yeah, you were, you were missed terribly this week.
0:22.3	I always like when you come back, we get to renew what we're doing.
0:26.8	And then the good news, Nick, is we get to talk about things like elections and coups.
0:32.8	And wait, my notes can't be right here.
0:35.0	Sex robots.
0:36.4	Oh, I like that.
0:37.7	You know me.
0:39.7	You know, there's nothing wrong with talking about.
0:41.7	You know, I told you about my whole West, not West Wing.
0:44.4	West World.
0:45.0	West World, right?
0:45.6	That's the show.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.0	I want to go there.
0:50.8	You want to go hang out in West World.
0:53.0	I got news for you.
0:53.8	I don't know how far long you are in that show. It doesn't work out well. Yeah. I mean, no, I haven't gotten to that part yet. Okay. Well, let's not spoil anything for Nick. But we going ahead and jumping into the news, our first story today, we have to go to Brazil, one of the world's largest democracies. I had talked about
1:13.0	it on last week's weekend or episode. If you want to listen to that, go over to patreon.com
1:17.8	slash muckreg podcast. Gain full access to that. What are you waiting for? Come on. And I had talked
1:23.0	about the conditions that were in place for a possible violent coup in which president of Brazil,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CLNS Media Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CLNS Media Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.