David Sirota vs Pete Buttigieg

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Or find us on Locals at http://usefulidiots.locals.com Click here for the full interview with David Sirota: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/david-sirota-vs-pete-buttigieg?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Join the Absurd Arena live chat with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/chat Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Biden https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/brave-brave-brave-brave-sir-biden?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For all the Pete Buttigieg-defending Democrats who say that the chemical explosion in East Palestine, Ohio isn’t the chief regulator’s fault because Donald Trump repealed the Brake Rule, and for all the Trump-defending Republicans who argue that the Brake Rule wouldn’t have helped this crash because Obama sided with the chemical lobby to narrow safety requirements, David Sirota has good news for you all: You’re both right. This story truly does span three presidential administrations,” Sirota explains. “The truth of this story is that this was a bipartisan effort to allow the rail industry and the chemical industry to avoid the safety regulations that needed to be put in place.” Sirota’s work at Lever News sparked national attention and outrage over the deadly train derailment and pressured Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to visit the explosion site and promise to fix the rules. You can support their important work which is holding politicians accountable and saving lives. Of course, not everyone supports independent media. As Politico reporter/Buttigieg stenographer Adam Wren tweeted, “David Sirota’s The Lever is fundraising off of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.” Because true journalism isn’t sponsored by the readers, but by the corporations that the corporate media claims to report on: Subscribe to watch the full interview with David Sirota detailing the bipartisan collusion to peel pack safety rules, the sickening politicians attempting to downplay the disaster, and why journalists should work for their readers, not corporations. Plus, check out this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Biden rode forth to Ukraine; and Rachel Maddow is so triggered by a certain politician, she refuses to even say her name in her very disdainful coverage of the Rage Against The War Machine rally. And join the Absurd Arena live discussion board with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est in the Substack app. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Alper. And I'm Aaron Matic. We're so excited
0:10.3	to have you guys joining this show and make sure that you subscribe to us on Substack
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0:32.9	where we have really the hottest show on Monday morning in the world. It's called Monday
0:38.0	Morning and it's where we watch the Sunday morning news shows that you don't have to.
0:42.3	And it's a viral hit. It's a social media hit. It's a YouTube hit. So I tune in.
0:47.4	Yeah, you can find that at youtube.com slash Useful Idiots and you should definitely
0:51.2	be subscribing there. And you can also watch us on rumble and subscribe there. Also, you
0:56.0	make sure you check out our Thursday throwdown segments. And that is your midweek dose of
1:00.6	media madness. And also you can join us at the absurd arena where we chat with you live
1:05.8	on Substack. All right. Let's get to our four basic food groups. And what do we have from
1:10.2	you, Aaron, for Democrats up? Well, for Democrats up, we're going to go to senior Biden administration
1:15.7	official of Victoria Nuland. Remember, she's the one who was caught on tape plotting a coup
1:19.8	in Ukraine in 2014, who most recently bragged to the Senate about how great it is that the
1:26.2	Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a hunk of metal at the bottom of the seat. Well, here she is now
1:33.4	seeming to claim that the US is authorized Ukraine to go and try to take Crimea back from Russia.
1:39.2	Crimea is the territory in Ukraine that Russia and X-2014 after the US back coup. The majority
1:46.3	of the Libycrimes, according to polls, including US government polls, would want to be a part of
1:49.8	Russia. But never mind that Nuland here seems to be saying that the US wants Ukraine to take it
1:55.0	back and is giving it the weapons to do so. So here she is speaking to the Carnegie Endowment
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