GOP: I Like Your Musk

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is a preview of the Patron-only Weekender episode. To gain full access to these episodes, as well as special post-event and live recordings, and to keep the show editorially independent and ad-free, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how one tweet by Elon Musk can torpedo a bill that had bipartisan support that could lead to a government shutdown for Christmas. Oh, and they're floating him as a replacement as Speaker of the House since Mike Johnson is in hot water for sullying himself by negotiating a deal with the Democrats. South Carolina pushes a bill that would execute women for having an abortion, while AOC gets pushed aside in her quest to lead the House Oversight Committee - a sign that the octogenarians in the party refuse to relinquish power.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of a Bruck podcast. I'm Jared East next to
0:05.7	here. It's Nick Houseman. Nick, I told you off Mike. I'm going to go ahead because it's
0:10.1	accountability. I bought new technology to have a better mic as I'm traveling as I'm out
0:15.8	the middle of nowhere. I bought the wrong damn thing. You know, if you just went wireless, I think we wouldn't have to worry about interfacing things. I tried. I know it has a receiver that goes into it. I am my grandfather's grandson. I go to the store. I buy the wrong things. Here we are. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I appreciate it. It is going to be okay. I'm going to have to do the return process.
0:39.6	By the way, as we're talking about that, Nick, just want to say for the show, solidarity to the Amazon strike that's taking place right now.
0:46.3	Good luck to everybody doing that.
0:48.1	In the meantime, everybody go to patreon.com slash my great podcast to get the whole show, support the show, keep us going.
0:54.0	Editorially free and independent anti-corporate media. slash my great podcast to get the whole show, support the show, keep us going, editorial,
0:54.9	editorially free and independent, anti-corporate media. And speaking of corporations, Nick,
1:00.0	we have to start with, unfortunately, it's a story that we should have seen coming. It is,
1:06.1	you know, another mile marker on exactly what you and I have been covering recently. On Wednesday,
1:13.0	Elon Musk came out against the spending compromise that was put forward by Speaker Mike Johnson
1:19.0	of the Republican Party. Immediately after coming out against that, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance
1:24.8	followed him with the rest of the GOP, which effectively killed the bill, which will very likely lead to a government shut down while people are listening to this on Friday.
1:35.6	Musk single-handedly did this and is more or less wagging the tail of the GOP's dog.
1:43.0	Nick, what we've been talking about with the oligarchical takeover, it is here, and we're
1:47.5	watching the consequences.
1:49.3	I cannot believe that Trump is allowing Musk to take the oxygen here, and I know people
1:53.5	are trying to tweak him by calling it President Musk, and then that's clearly what
1:58.0	the opposition is trying to do here, which I suppose could then incite some sort of infighting, which we'll have anyway.
2:05.6	At some point, Musk is going to be out of the loop, right?
2:08.3	He's going to get kicked out.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CLNS Media Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CLNS Media Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.