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Episode 570 Promo -

Bad Faith

Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author of Irregular Army, How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror, joins Bad Faith to explain why the two party system won't be ending the war machine, to debate Bernie Sanders's limitations as an anti-war voice & Tucker Carlson's choice to position himself in that role, how the war on terror contributed to the current political moment & more.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's an argument that winningly or unwittingly, Tucker Carlson, Bernie Sanders, are playing the same role, which is to say many people were very frustrated with the Democratic Party.

0:10.7

Many people don't understand why we're the richest nation in the history of the road and we don't get to have health care and student loans and the economy is shit and, you know.

0:19.9

And here comes Bernie Sanders, who is able to provide catharsis

0:26.8

and give voice to all of those concerns, to tell people that their

0:32.6

emissoration is not their own fault, and to seemingly provide an outlet, a political outlet in a way to

0:41.1

remedy the inequities that we all live with. But at the end of the day, oopsie daisy,

0:46.8

he loses. I'm not saying intentionally. I work for the man. You know, I voted for him.

0:51.5

But oopsie daisy, he loses and ultimately is going to say, okay, well, I tried,

0:55.0

go vote for the Democrats again. And are we going to get a similar version of that with Tucker

0:59.3

Carl's summary? It's like, yeah, like these Trump anti-war people are a real bummer. I mean,

1:04.3

I mean, he betrayed us on the anti-war front. And here are some new options that are like also

1:09.9

genuinely America first candidates.

1:13.1

But ultimately we're going to get either because that candidate gets co-opted, quote unquote, like Trump did, or because that the anti-war candidate just loses to the pro-war candidate, the same old status quo.

1:27.0

But you can't get anything else in America. When have you had a president? Well, that's the point. Yeah, but that's a structural thing. And that's why it's not just on the Israel question. It's just structurally Trump, I don't think he did believe it. Even if he believed the stuff he came out with, if the powers that be, the deep state, believed that he would actually do what he said,

1:45.3

he wouldn't have got into power.

1:46.5

I completely agree.

1:48.3

Which is why I am so skeptical of this idea that Tucker Carlson, who is an intelligent,

1:54.5

savvy person, genuinely believed that he could be into...

1:58.3

Look, I supported Bernie.

2:00.0

Did I think that Bernie was going to be able to, like,

2:02.8

dismantle the military?

2:05.0

No?

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