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Le Show For The Week Of February 9, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Sports, News, Tech News, Music, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of Musk Love, News of Crypto-Winter, News of the Godly, News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, The Apologies of the Week, and News of A.I. He also considers why the latest administration is redrawing the boundaries of national monuments, why political strategies are considering “what the democrats got wrong,” and introduces a new segment, News of the New American Empire.

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you're not one of those people who's been turning off the news since November, you may have noticed increasing amounts of comments among those who practice the political arts about what the

0:27.1

Democrats have been doing wrong, what they did wrong in this particular election, particularly.

0:36.6

You know, she should have gone on Joe Rogan.

0:40.8

I think I've said before in this program, this is consultants and strategists

0:44.7

auditioning, that is, for their next job with a candidate by showing how thinly they can

0:53.2

slice the political salami.

0:57.0

I have a slightly different view of things.

1:02.0

What the problem the Democrats have found themselves in, I think, is based on the fact that they purport to be

1:12.5

the party of the, quote, working people, unquote, but they're not getting the majority of their

1:20.5

money, their contributions, as they used to, from labor, which, for better or or not represents working people.

1:31.3

That all started, of course, back in the days of the Vietnam War, look up hard hats versus long hares.

1:39.3

But here we are. You know, it's okay.

1:43.8

It's the one kind of corporation that gives to Democrats and another kind of corporation

1:48.9

that gives to Republicans.

1:50.2

It's the battle of the corporations, in other words.

1:53.6

So, you know, every once in a while, the Democrats let their pet progressive Bernie Sanders

1:59.4

out just to talk about stuff that would

2:03.7

maybe appeal to working people. But that's about it. Neither Bill Clinton nor Barack Obama

2:14.4

nor Joe Biden made the slightest effort at, let alone accomplishing,

2:20.8

the raising of the minimum wage.

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