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🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 105 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Matt Taiyoby. And we are here to pump you up. I always want to say that. |
0:16.0 | We have a great show. We have a great show. Who's on the show? |
0:19.2 | Jank Yuga, founder of the Young Turks. Right. And he's running for Congress. Right, future member of Congress. |
0:25.4 | Yeah. So the next time we interview him, he's probably going to be on the other side of the equation where he's like the enemy. |
0:30.4 | He's a politician. Yeah, we're going to hold his feet to the fire. Right. Because you're going to get that great useful idiot's podcast bump. That's right. |
0:37.6 | That, you know, chase a buddhin guy and that Andrew Yang got in donations after you appeared on this show. |
0:43.6 | Right. And that maybe if Mark Ruffalo comes on the show, he'll do some recognition. Yeah, a one-and-a-scar. |
0:49.0 | Right. He's saying, yes, we have a fantastic show. |
0:51.1 | And we have a lot to get to so we should just get to it. Yeah. |
0:54.0 | For-for-groups or public and suck. I mean, I know it's boring to do Donald Trump. |
0:58.8 | I know, but we don't do him a lot. We don't do we don't do him a lot. So basically, he's got a new law that's it's an executive order. |
1:05.8 | Basically declaring a Judaism to be a nationality. So here, let's look at a clip briefly with an interview with Senator Richard Blumenthal. |
1:14.0 | Today, the president is going to sign an executive order, which effectively makes Judaism a nationality in regards to students at college and protected college speech. |
1:26.6 | What he's trying to do is crack down on anti-Semitism, some anti-Semitism on college campuses. |
1:32.0 | In doing that, the 1964 civil rights law, you basically have to say that Judaism is a nationality. |
1:38.5 | There are some people who don't doubt the motivations here, but that's a precarious label in this case. |
1:46.6 | The Soviet Union did that, for instance, called Judaism and Nation. It's a religion. |
1:52.9 | What's the risk reward there? Is this something you support? |
1:56.3 | I am very, very, wary as a Jew of labeling Judaism as a nationality. |
2:03.6 | It's smacks not only of what happened in the Soviet Union, but also Nazi Germany, that my own father escaped in 1935. |
2:13.5 | I'm an American. I am an American. My religion is Judaism, and my allegiance is to the United States of America. |
2:23.0 | So what do you think? |
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