Is Trump Really Curtailing US Empire?

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie wrap up 2018 by discussing bizarre holiday antics at the White House their favorite Christmas movies, Liz Wahl running for Congress, and how inhumane US border policy is literally killing kids. The second half of the episode they discuss the notion that Trump is "curtailing US empire" by withdrawing the troops he himself added from Afghanistan and Syria, despite expanding the US military to its largest size, while increasing drone strikes 400% and civilian casualties 250%. *Conversation about Trump's troop withdrawal at 48:00 Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.
0:17.0	This is Robbie Martin. Welcome, everybody. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas,
0:23.9	everyone. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Uh, and happy New Year. Yeah, happy New Year,
0:31.1	everybody. Yeah, Christmas was intense this year. It kind of came up a little bit quickly. I think everyone's just been really inundated with the nightmare of this entire year coming to a head. So Christmas kind of came and went. It was really nice to spend time with family. I hope everyone was able to get out of their own way with the depressing shit going on and just had a good time with their
0:55.5	family and didn't go too deep into political discussions with your racist, you know,
1:00.6	relatives.
1:01.6	But yeah, hopefully you guys had a good time.
1:04.1	There were some funny things that happened just around this time when it comes to Trump.
1:09.6	You know, Melania likes to decorate the White House
1:12.3	with these weird Gothic, like Christmas trees and shit, like all, like in a whore movie,
1:18.1	like Crampus.
1:19.2	This year, the weirdest thing about the photos was that all of these giant glass ornaments
1:24.5	were just stuffed under the tree, a deconstructed hellish Christmas thing going on.
1:33.0	I didn't actually, I'm trying to find a picture of it right now online.
1:36.2	I didn't see that.
1:37.2	I just saw it, Vic Burger posted it, photoshopped, and it was just really funny.
1:41.4	So there's just giant ornaments under the tree?
1:43.3	Giant ball ornaments just like sitting all under the tree other than
1:46.4	presents. It's just big glass ornaments because I guess the present is you just
1:49.7	break the shards of glass and then there's your present. Just glass shards.
1:54.2	Merry Christmas from the Trump family. We just watched the
1:58.4	intro to 119 Fahrenheit 119 last night.
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