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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Grassroots Action/Satirizing Trump

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes America’s Number One populist, Jim Hightower, to tell us how grassroots action can resist the Trump agenda and legendary satirist Lewis Lapham to talk about whether Donald Trump can even be satirized.



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0:00.0

Now listen Steve you and David do a great job but I have one suggestion.

0:04.4

Yeah. When you introduce David Steve and you have a 10 second repartee with David.

0:10.7

Yes. Let's up the quality.

0:13.0

Because sometimes it falls flat because it's too impromptu.

0:19.0

Now you got a real populace humorist coming on and you got one of the nation's

0:24.2

leading satirists coming on so you should rise to the occasion in that 10 second

0:29.2

repartee. Okay we will you know what I'm gonna put on my funny hat. That's probably what I wasn't doing before. I didn't have my funny hat.

0:37.0

I think that would be good for the show if you said that, Ralph. That's going too far. From the KPFK studios in Southern California it's the

0:48.0

Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting great to song.

0:55.0

We've got to build a new politics, a grassroots politics in this country

1:00.0

from the ground up of the people for the people and by the people and

1:04.4

that's what the our revolution program that Bernie Sanders helped to create is all about

1:09.6

let's go out there and at the very grassroots level begin this spring running for school board

1:15.7

and running for city council and races like that, local fights, taking initiatives where we can

1:21.6

pass those and referendums but also just going straight to

1:25.1

the City Hall going straight to the County Commissioners Courts and into our

1:28.2

state legislatures with a progressive program that puts us on the offensive.

1:33.2

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

1:41.2

My name is Steve Scrove Analog, my co-host David Feldman.

1:44.4

What I'm happy to say, it's just been pardoned by President Obama.

1:47.3

Not for anything in particular, just a blanket pardon for anything he's ever said.

1:51.5

I'm very grateful and I'm not going to argue with Ralph, it's his show, but you know, I just don't think

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