Clown Politics w/ Vijay Prashad

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Director of the Tricontinental Institute For Social Research, author of Washington Bullets, and trained mime Vijay Prashad joins the boys to talk mass movements in India and how to find hope in your politics. We also listen to that Madison Cawthorn abortion speech everyone was so mad about. MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/poddamnamerica COME TO PAID PROTEST ON 12/10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paid-protest-comedy-show-dsa-fundraiser-tickets-214770322817

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, bills 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
0:21.5	God damn America
0:23.5	That's in the Bible
0:24.9	For killing innocent people
0:26.9	God damn America
0:28.6	For treating her citizens
0:30.2	as less than human
0:31.7	As long as she
0:34.7	tries to act like she is hard Okay Three, two, one. Madam Speaker, imagine you just walked out of this chamber. And outside of Okay.
0:38.3	Three photo
0:40.3	One.
0:41.3	Madam Speaker, imagine you've just walked out of this chamber.
0:45.3	And outside is a gorgeous sunset.
0:49.3	You have a Polaroid camera and you snap a beautiful picture and the gray photo
0:53.3	pints out the front you hold it and shake
0:55.8	it waiting for the picture to appear but suddenly someone walks by and snatches your photo what the
1:01.4	hell you're stunned you cry why did you destroy my foot my picture the person replies oh it wasn't a picture
1:08.6	it wasn't fully developed yet.
1:12.4	Ah, metaphor.
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