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Lost Debate

Ep 17 | Voting Rights, Origins of Covid-19, Trump-DeSantis Booster Beef, School Boards & Culture Wars

Lost Debate

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4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ravi, Cory, and Rikki dive into a jam-packed episode, starting with a new push from President Biden to pass a series of bills expanding voting rights. Then we get into a sweeping discussion about the Wuhan lab leak theory and how the more we learn, the more plausible it appears to be. Trump takes a subtle jab at DeSantis on vaccines and booster shots. The growing controversy around Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the National School Boards Association. Finally, Cory introduces us to an Australian bride-to-be saying “I do” to Omicron. [1:05] Biden Voting Rights [12:52] Wuhan Lab Leak Theory [30:44] Trump vs. DeSantis [34:35] National School Boards Association Controversy [46:22] Australian Bride-to-be and Omicron Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

And it seems to me that there's a lot of smoke here to the claim that the government itself shut down a lot of discussion of this theory because they were embarrassed about their own link to the Wuhan lab.

0:16.9

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. I'm Corey Browford.

0:21.9

And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Corey, we've got a lot to talk about today. I'm just exhausted

0:26.3

even thinking about it. Where are we going to start? It's a lot to cover. First things first,

0:29.8

coming up, unverified documents released by Project Veritas links the origin of COVID to gain

0:36.5

a function research in Wuhan, China.

0:38.5

Now, unsurprisingly, the video detailing these documents blew up in conservative media.

0:43.0

We take a look at those claims.

0:44.2

And then Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Trump beef over vaccine boosters,

0:49.1

followed by new allegations that the Biden administration coordinated with the National

0:53.0

School Board Association to

0:54.3

authorize using the Patriot Act against parents who clash with school boards. And a video is going

1:00.2

viral on TikTok that I can't wait to show you guys. But first things first, this week, President

1:05.7

Biden threw his political capital behind an issue central to many Democrats, and that's voting

1:10.6

rights.

1:11.4

While in Atlanta, Biden said that he would support an exception to the filibuster.

1:15.7

I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass

1:21.5

these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote, let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option

1:31.5

but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this. Now, before we get

1:36.4

into the merits of those bills, I just want to ask you to what do we think of this filibuster carve

1:41.1

out? Like, getting rid of the filibuster, is this a good idea for the Democrats?

1:44.9

Is this a good precedent to set? Well, I think in general, like right now the Senate as a body is,

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