Despite a Do-Nothing Congress - Sprinkles of Good News From All Over
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this installment - John discusses the depressing fact that we have the least productive congress since The Great Depression. But to counter that - he gives up some good news: a possible hostage exchange in the Israel - Hamas war; a short term funding bill is headed to Biden's desk; and the chairman of the House Ethics Committee has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos from congress. Then, he welcomes back Jessica Mason Pieklo who is a Senior Vice President and Executive Editor for Rewire News Group and she's also the co-host of their signature podcast Boom! Lawyered. They talk about the Supreme Court: new possible gun legislation, a challenge to title 10 - minor's access to contraception, and their new code of ethics. And finally, John chats with Simon Moya-Smith and Julie Francella for their Native Voices segment. They discuss the movie "Killers of the Flower Moon"; the case of an elder in Denver who had his long hair cut in a hospital without permission; and Native American GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenging a Teamsters president during a Senate hearing. Mike in Michigan calls in about indigenous culture, Kathleen in Kansas calls in on understanding our origins, and David in Santa Fe calls in on his Lakota Tribe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Serious Progress. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Serious XM Progress. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm John Figglesang. I hope you had a great Thursday. I'm so glad you're with us. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm so glad we're all still here and I'm glad we've made it through almost another week. |
| 0:19.7 | Don't forget what George Clinton always says, friends friends it's always better by Thursday |
| 0:24.3 | there's a lot to celebrate there's actually a lot of good news out there amidst all |
| 0:28.4 | the Michigan has and horror and for the next three hours we'll be trying to deliver |
| 0:31.7 | it to you. |
| 0:33.0 | And as effective, compassionate, and amusing a package as possible. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's put this day to bed together, shall we? |
| 0:41.0 | We have a lot of ground to cover. |
| 0:42.0 | First off, a short-term funding bill to just breeze through the Senate. |
| 0:45.0 | It's going to pass across Joe Biden's desk on its way to saving our government from a shutdown for, you know, another 75 days until we go to yeah we're not there yet also pro-Palestine |
| 0:58.3 | protesters shut down the bay bridge between Oakland and San Francisco for most of the |
| 1:01.9 | morning using cars and |
| 1:03.4 | linked chains to demand a ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel |
| 1:09.4 | meanwhile the World Health Organization and CDC report that all those folks who decided to stop getting |
| 1:15.2 | vaccinations led to a 40% increase in deaths from the measles last year in 2022. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, I keep wanting to say Darwin was wrong, but they, no, they keep proving Darwin was right. |
| 1:32.0 | And as you may have heard already, Sean Combs, he used to be... |
| 1:36.0 | Well, he's Diddy now. |
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