How To Lose a Country In 100 Days with Josh Gondelman & Juan Cole (Ep 278)

The Bitchuation Room

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News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Ratings are in the golden toilet for the Trump sequel and we’re here to both laugh and cry at the authoritarian incompetance. Comedian Josh Gondelman is along for the show to talk Canada’s nice nationalism and the terrifying Zionist mobs in Brooklyn heralding extremist security minister Ben Gvir. Then historian and author of Informed Comment Juan Cole joins to talk how the Trump effect is impacting the U.S.’ role globally from Gaza to Yemen to Iran and more. Josh Gondelman, comedian, https://www.joshgondelman.com/ https://x.com/joshgondelman Juan Cole, author, professor and Editor in Chief of Informed Comment https://www.juancole.com/ *** LIVE SHOWS SAN FRANCISCO- May 7th - Francesca and Matt Lieb are coming to Cobb’s Comedy Club San Francisco. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ImZ_W42k_U PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom. *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

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0:00.0	The thing that I kind of mocked and needleed when it was announced and did not fully,
0:04.9	and this is on me, did not fully realize the gravity and the access they would have is the Doge stuff.
0:09.2	Like, Doge being able to walk into any building with armed guards and be like,
0:13.2	give me everyone in America's social security number. No further questions.
0:17.6	The amount that they've been able to like open the gas tank of the government and piss in it is, like,
0:25.1	beyond my worst fears for it.
0:43.0	And so it was a hundred days of Donald Trump again.
0:45.1	Way too many days.
0:47.0	Welcome everyone to the bituation room.
0:55.0	Live, the show, the stream, the thing, the podcast, the place, the time, the motion. What is it? I don't know how it goes. It's fine. You're here. Hopefully you're queer and we're getting used to it.
1:01.0	I am excited because even though everything's mostly bad and I only looked into moving abroad once this morning.
1:10.0	So we've got two fabulous guests.
1:13.6	Comedian Josh Gondelman is back on the show, as well as foreign policy analyst and author
1:21.6	of informed comment, which is a long-standing blog that everyone should be reading, should have on their regular check-ins.
1:30.3	Juan Cole is also back on the program after a long time.
1:35.3	Really excited to get his breakdown in thoughts of everything we are seeing,
1:41.3	specifically the international fallout of having this, you know, head wound
1:47.0	Hitler in charge of the largest military on Earth. So if you're here, why don't you go ahead
1:54.5	and like and share the stream right now, do all the things, click all the buttons, ring the
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