If Facebook Crashes, Does The World End?

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the effect the Pandora Papers have had on the world, considering how many wealthy people intentionally hide their money all over the world- including South Dakota. They then turn their focus on Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin, two senators hellbent on holding up the process of passing Joe Biden's agenda. To support the show and access additional content, including the weekly Weekender episode, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	Wouldn't a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal pre-kai?
0:07.0	There are a number of things that will help the people of Wyoming.
0:10.0	Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming.
0:15.0	And I believe that there should be things means tested.
0:18.0	You just don't give things universally to everybody. You heard the congressman
0:22.0	from the progressive caucus say everybody ought to get free community college. Everybody ought to get
0:27.4	free daycare, pre-care, all of those things. And that's not the way that our country has been
0:34.0	founded in how we work. Senator Joe Manchin said this week that this reconciliation bill is dead on
0:41.2	arrival if it does not include the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal dollars for most abortions.
0:47.4	So what's going to happen?
0:49.6	Dana, I can't tell you how many times in my senator career, we have seen major pieces of legislation founder on this issue.
0:57.8	So I don't want to say anything now to jeopardize the negotiation.
1:01.3	I don't want to let the entire package break down over that issue.
1:04.5	Okay. I take that as a yes.
1:07.8	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared D.A. Sexton. We have the return, the wonderful, wonderful return of Tricky Houseman. Nick, we missed you terribly. I'm glad to be back. Thank you. And we're glad to have you. I have a little bit of bad news for the podcast, Faithful. As I near my 40th birthday,
1:31.9	I had a Jim Carrey late 1990s-like moment today in which I just offhandedly, carelessly,
1:42.8	used my birthday wish and just said out loud I hope that
1:47.0	facebook.com goes away and never comes back my apologies everyone I'm sorry I'm sure
1:53.3	your crazy aunt and uncle and grandparents are losing their minds right now this one's
1:58.5	on me I think I think to quote the great Jim Carrey, oh, come on.
2:03.5	Yeah, it's exciting to be able to fire up Facebook and see, oops, something went wrong or like
2:08.6	what were fresh. Do you think it's related to what's going on with the Pandora papers?
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