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PREVIEW: The Loop w/ Daniel Bessner

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We talk with historian and writer Daniel Bessner about Rand Paul, Graceland, international organizations, covid, climate change, and whether or not there is a future. Follow him at @DBessner

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0:00.0

Yeah, I've been playing a game in terms of climate policy of which major U.S. city would have to be destroyed before the government takes any interest in actually doing something now.

0:12.5

And I settled on, like, I don't think anything less than, like, New York is going to move anything.

0:18.6

I think we could, like, lose Houston.

0:19.9

They'll just be like, ah, that's too bad.

0:21.9

That happened.

0:23.4

Well, with climate, though, it is in some ways kind of incredible how quickly the needle has moved with, you know, obviously we're nowhere near a legislative majority for the Green New Deal.

0:35.2

But the way we talk about it, having a program that

0:38.5

is like a substantive proposal that people have different variants of. And it's like, it's on

0:44.0

people's mind, the Green New Deal. And I'm wondering if there's some foreign policy version of that.

0:51.4

In other words, like, you know, I know something,

0:54.8

Daniel,

0:55.1

you've been working on

0:56.0

is talking about how,

0:57.4

you know,

0:57.6

a future president or,

1:00.6

or,

1:00.7

you know,

1:02.0

the political players in America

1:03.5

could develop like task forces

1:05.4

to,

1:06.2

you know,

1:06.4

democratize the foreign policy establishment,

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