Mass Hallucinations, Comedians for Russiagate, Net Neutrality Dead?

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the Trump phenomenon causing mass hallucinations on both sides of the political aisle, antifa fearmongering and the J20 arrests, Russiagate obsessed comedians like Michael Ian Black attacking RT, Abby and Lee Camp, FCC chair Ajit Pai abolishing Net Neutrality, opening media consolidation and how algorithms having already killed the concept of a free and open Internet. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio When we reach our goal of $500, we will release 4 podcasts per month. www.twitter.com/AbbyMartin www.twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	Welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:26.3	This is Abby Martin.
0:28.3	This is Bobby Martin.
0:29.9	We're together up north in Oakland for Thanksgiving.
0:35.0	Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
0:36.9	Happy Thanksgiving. Hope everybody, everyone. Happy Thanksgiving.
0:39.2	Hope everybody's been able to tolerate their family.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:42.2	Their extended family.
0:43.5	I know.
0:43.9	We couldn't resist.
0:45.1	We had to get in a fight on Thanksgiving with the one Trump's supporting relative.
0:49.3	But, oh, well, I'm pretty sure that that's how it goes.
0:51.8	It's hard not to not to have stuff like that come out, I guess.
0:56.0	But it's fun because even when we had more Trump, our Republican relatives coming to our
1:01.1	Thanksgiving, we were always able to like out argue them because their only retort was
1:07.7	always like talking about Democrats.
1:09.8	So we hate Democrats too. So we just,
1:13.6	we just like they can never like beat us in our argument. Yeah. I mean, it's just so sad now to see
1:18.6	the partisanship come to this peak where it's so impossible to talk to people if you come from
1:24.9	where we're coming from, which is like a vehement hatred of Democrats and neoliberalism. And so to talk to people if you come from where we're coming from, which is like a vehement hatred of
1:28.6	Democrats and neoliberalism. And so to talk to Trump supporters now, it's almost like you're
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