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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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We talk to writer and editor David Dayen about the debt ceiling negotiations.
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0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to Crystal Kyland Friends. Today, we're going to dork out and we're going |
0:11.4 | to learn every single thing more than you'd ever want to know about the debt ceiling. |
0:15.5 | No, it's everything you would want to know about the debt ceiling. I mean, there's a lot |
0:19.2 | to get into here, though, with the failures of the past, the failures of the present. |
0:22.8 | How can avoid the failures of the future? Who this is going to impact? How Biden could |
0:27.4 | get out of this even today? If you wanted to, there's a lot to talk to David about. |
0:31.5 | I don't know what percentage of our audience really cares about this, but they should because |
0:35.7 | again, this is like a totally manufactured fake crisis that becomes a real crisis and |
0:40.6 | Biden's handling it poorly. And then there's the question, what even is the debt ceiling? |
0:43.8 | Why do we have it? We're going to dive into all that and people are going to know more |
0:47.0 | probably than people in the body administration at the time. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and David over |
0:51.6 | the marathon prospect, they have been publishing a daily newsletter called X state that is tracking |
0:56.7 | these negotiations right up until the X state, which we're told a student first, although |
1:01.4 | there is some question whether they could extend it a little further beyond that. But in |
1:05.4 | my opinion, looking at a lot of the coverage and analysis, I think there's has been the |
1:11.5 | smartest and has pointed out some pieces that I didn't realize, for example, there is already |
1:16.4 | a lawsuit going on about the debt ceiling that could be relevant to the negotiations that |
1:20.7 | I saw no one else covering, except for David. So the perfect guy to have on to break all |
1:25.3 | his down for us. Absolutely. But before we get to that, this is so fun. I was, I've enjoyed |
1:35.1 | this so much. So Ron de Sanctimonious, he made a horrendous political decision in retrospect |
1:44.0 | it's easy to call it horrendous, but there was still a question mark to even before he |
1:46.8 | does that. I call it, I mean, I was pretty critical even before it was a total disaster. |
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