Force the Vote with Pelosi Challenger Shahid Buttar

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview with Shahid Buttar: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-force-the-vote-with?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Advocate, artist, lawyer, organizer, musician, and former politician Shahid Buttar joins Useful Idiots to explain why Democrats are failing. Why is he a former politician, you ask? Well after running a campaign against Nancy Pelosi and getting buried by racist attacks from liberals, Shahid realized a sad truth about politics: “Politicians, as well as journalists and lawyers,” he told us. “Are all about careerism. People care about their careers more than the principles of their profession.” And so self-proclaimed non-racists like Pelosi use racist attacks against opponents of color, like Shahid and Nina Turner, to keep their claws sunk deep into power, shielding themselves from any review of their own anti-democratic voting records. But Shahid doesn’t put all the blame on these power-hungry, corporate vultures for choosing power over human values: “It’s impossible not to in a fascist country.” Shahid continues to explain how corporate Democrats cover up their power-hungry policy through distraction, claiming Donald Trump and January 6 are the real threats to democracy — all so that Americans are too beaten down from hearings to realize our government is busy overthrowing democracies around the world and spying on us at home. Plus, watch the full interview to hear how Shahid got arrested for confronting former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: “Why are you above the law for perjury and mass surveillance while Eric Garner lies dead in the street?” And catch yesterday’s Thursday Throwdown: Media Wants No $$ for Workers, More for FBI It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Youth Flidia. I'm one of your host Katie Halper. And I'm the other
0:08.8	host Aaron Mattie. How are you Katie? Good you. I'm great. I'm great. And as always, you
0:13.2	can go to Youth Flidia. It's at subsdact.com to get bonus content to set up for our Thursday
0:18.3	throwdown your midweek dose of media madness and to take part in the absurd arena where
0:22.6	you can interact with us and other youth flidia. So what do we have this week from the
0:26.8	absurd arena? So the absurd arena seems to be growing darker every week. People getting
0:32.9	a little bit more discouraged. And this week Youth Flidia has discussed the urge to disconnect
0:37.5	themselves completely from politics because it appears to be hopeless from corrupt politicians
0:42.5	to corporate control to cease-list fighting on Twitter. But a couple of youth flidia,
0:48.0	it's like Martin Eddie, Foggy's Woggle, Todd Smith and Jonathan Vasquez also shared the
0:53.7	hope that keeps them holding on. And these are things like the movements outside of the
0:58.4	US like in South America and Claire Daly and McWallis, rebellious music, the promise of real
1:04.8	face to face time spent with others that actually strengthen relationships and all of the amazing
1:09.8	profound funny voices out here in this technocratic hellscape wilderness. So Katie and Aaron,
1:15.8	what hope do you have for a future outside of this corporate technocratic hold that we're
1:20.3	in? Well, I think that one of the comments that we just heard about, what was it funny
1:25.7	voices? Yeah. I mean, that gives me hope. And I like to think that we are part of that.
1:32.2	So I would say without sounding self centered, we give me hope. I give myself hope. Aaron
1:39.6	gives me hope. This show gives me hope. And the fact that this show gives other people
1:44.2	hope gives me hope. Listening to Chuck Todd every week gives me
1:47.3	help because there's no way we can get any lower than this. Right. Then having people
1:52.1	like that is among our major cultural figures, our major faces of journalism. It's got
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