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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Jeet Heer & Rep. Becca Balint

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Nation’s Jeet Heer talks to us about the Democratic Party’s rebuilding efforts. Congresswoman Becca Balint examines how to push back against Trump’s agenda.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:08.7

And Donald Trump Jr. says his father has discussed banning mainstream journalists from the White House briefing room.

0:17.7

It's going to be all one America news. We have a great show for you today. The nations,

0:25.6

Jeet here talks to us about how the Democratic Party rebuilds. Then we'll talk to Congresswoman

0:30.9

Becca Ballant about how to push back against Trump's agenda. But first, the news.

0:37.1

Somali, as usual, we have to talk about Elon Musk's unhinged tweeting.

0:42.9

He's naming people by name who he's going to recommend get fired.

0:47.0

Isn't that so nice of him?

0:48.3

I think you should know this as somebody he wants to help docs.

0:51.4

Yeah.

0:52.3

Again, one of the things that happens when you go MAGA is that you have to tweet all the time.

0:58.0

That's one of the laws of going MAGA.

0:59.9

I never thought about it, but that's right.

1:01.4

But it's true.

1:02.1

You have to just completely live online.

1:05.1

And so just like we remember that in 2016, we spent all this time.

1:10.6

Our news cycles were controlled by Donald Trump's tweets.

1:14.3

Now we have another person to add to this attention economy, and that is the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.

1:21.2

He is tweeting up a storm day, night, left, right, all the time.

1:27.0

I really liked the insight from his former friend podcast hosted author Sam Harris that said that he's staying up all night sniffing ketamine all day.

1:35.5

His behavior is very erratic and usually staying up all night is a sign that something else is going on.

1:41.9

But who am I to judge not sleeping and spending

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