Episode 239 Promo - Should the Left Care About 1/6 Committee Report?
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🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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This week, Jennifer Briney of Congressional Dish returns to the podcast to discuss her read on the 1/6 congressional hearings and report which she's been reviewing for one of her deep-dive podcast episodes. Some on the left have seen these hearings as somewhat of a distraction from more substantive, material issues. But is that a mistake? She explains what we should know and whether a populist movement must consider the "normie' appeal of holding Trump accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | What are the things the big ticket items that would be a mess and that the left should actually care about? |
| 0:05.3 | The fake electors scheme. I can't get over it. It's absolutely insane. I mean, that is fraud. |
| 0:10.4 | And it was in multiple states to get it to work in one of the states. |
| 0:15.5 | They needed these people to physically be in the legislature's building. So the plan was to have them |
| 0:22.5 | stay overnight to like not leave the building and just quietly sleep there so that they would be |
| 0:29.1 | in the building when they signed these documents. I mean, it was such a sneaky, |
| 0:34.4 | obviously wrong plan. And so they were trying to follow the letter of the law, certainly not the |
| 0:41.2 | spirit. But these are essentially forged documents that were being submitted. And they were submitted |
| 0:47.6 | to the National Archives. Like, this is fraud, straight up fraud. They submitted these documents |
| 0:53.3 | and the repercussions for our country could have been Donald Trump could be president right now. |
| 0:58.8 | If it weren't for all the people that said no. And that for me, it exposes systemic issues |
| 1:05.2 | that are far bigger than either of these parties or Donald Trump that 200 years from now, |
| 1:10.2 | someone could look back on this and maybe do it a better way. But I think we have to be looking |
| 1:15.2 | at our system. And like I said, they did something in the omnibus. I'm excited to really tear that |
| 1:20.1 | apart and see if it fixes the issue. I think as long as we have the electoral college instead of |
| 1:25.6 | just straight up voting for our president, we're going to have issues. But I mean, what does |
| 1:31.6 | all of this conversation that we have, all of the work we put into changing our system, if we don't |
| 1:36.5 | actually get to directly elect our leaders, if we no longer get to choose, you and I might as well |
| 1:42.6 | go into other lines of work because that's the most important thing that's everything we're trying |
| 1:46.9 | to do is to make our country better. And if we don't get to choose the people who are in charge of |
| 1:50.8 | us, what's the point? It's that important to our country. What we're looking at here. So I want |
| 1:56.9 | us to look at the system and make sure our system is okay. I appreciate that. And so many people |
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