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🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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0:00.0 | All I'm going to be easy to jump. |
0:05.0 | All I'm going to be is a joke. |
0:08.0 | All I'm going to be is a joke. Okay, Chappo, let's go. We're back. |
0:14.0 | It's your Chappo. |
0:19.0 | Let's go. We're back. It's your Chappo for the weekend or for Monday |
0:26.7 | tomorrow when you're probably listening to this. Um, let's just dive right |
0:31.0 | into it. Obviously, we're here now and probably like the thing, the big thing this week |
0:38.1 | that we have to talk about, we're hopefully going to spend most of the show talking about is this tax bill that's |
0:45.3 | winding its way through the halls of government headed to the president's desk and |
0:52.0 | is surely going to basically, I don't know, just perform the final coup to |
0:56.1 | gras or whatever's left of, I don't know, America or |
1:00.3 | or civil society. I wish I had something funny to say or something more |
1:06.9 | uplifting but like this is just this is all bad and the thing that I said |
1:12.4 | earlier this week when it looked like it was going to pass is it's just to me like just a hallmark of just like a defeated culture in society. |
1:22.2 | They're like we just seem like pretty much worn out by this and like the class war is over |
1:27.7 | and I feel like the bad guys won. |
1:29.7 | And this tax bill is the culmination of probably 30 to 40 years of the right-wing movement in this country to steadily chip away at the welfare state and just transfer more and more of society's wealth into fewer and |
1:45.3 | fewer hands and they've pretty much done it. Yeah I mean like look this thing |
1:51.4 | was always going to pass it was always going to pass. |
1:52.7 | It was always going to pass because, you know, the, you know, five respected resistance Republicans |
1:59.2 | they suck out of the same teat as, you know, yousemity Sam from Texas so those donors told them they have to pass this because |
2:08.8 | what is even the point of a Republican president or Congress if you can't pass this |
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