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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Dems' New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs' Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of System Update, Glenn covers the Democrats' new star: Dan Goldman. The Manhattan billionaire heir who loves to defend the security state of the US. Another rich Congressman in the hand of the Democrats. Plus, Glenn looks into Jeffrey Sachs' break with the establishment on Ukraine, Covid, and more. Click here and listen to another insightful episode of System Update!

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0:00.0

The Good evening. It's Wednesday, May 24th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

0:19.3

Our Live Nightly Show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on

0:24.4

Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight you can tell a lot

0:29.0

about a political party by the elected officials its followers most venerate.

0:34.0

Since 2018, one of the Democrats' most popular stars, if not the most popular, has been

0:38.6

Alexandria-Cossio Cortez of gentrified queens and parts of the Bronx whose unique talents in creating

0:45.4

viralized social media content for Twitter and Tik-Toc, such as her AOC in White Oscar

0:51.0

worthy performance as a pained activist staring at a parking lot at the border is beyond dispute.

0:57.0

Even if her influence over actual policy and lawmaking is close to zero.

1:02.0

You never see Joe Manchin or Kirsten Cinema

1:05.2

going viral on Instagram with endless discussions of their various traumas.

1:11.0

You only see them wielding their power to determine what the outcome of laws will be,

1:15.0

something you never see AOC doing.

1:18.0

That's because they seem to like being lawmakers while AOC really enjoys life as a cultural celebrity and influencer, and it shows.

1:27.0

But whatever else you think of her, AOC's special brand of identity politics,

1:31.0

her passion for calling every Republican a white supremacist, and her

1:35.2

completely harmless theater kid gesturing at the most banal and comfortable form of gentrified

1:42.0

lifestyle socialism, really did capture the zeitgeist of post George

1:46.5

Floyd, Trump obsessed, left liberal online sentiment.

1:50.9

AOC, whose star began to fade when her gaudy appearance at the Met Gala, surrounded by mass servants who prepared her hair and nails and feet while she and her unmasked boyfriend blatantly enjoyed their pampering.

2:04.0

A bridge too far, a mass dropping moment that could never be unseen even by her most devoted

2:09.3

loyalist now has a competitor. The billionaire heir of the Levi Strauss Fortune, Daniel Goldman, who, through

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