meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Unf*cking The Republic

Priorities: War, Wealth and Welfare.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Coronavirus exposed the American budget and monetary policy as giant myths. Turns out, we can afford to pay for just about anything we want. Unfortunately, until now it seems we’ve only wanted to pay for things like war and prisons. We demonize welfare, education and healthcare and protect billionaires like fragile little eggs. In this episode we unf*ck the national budget and expose the lies behind how it’s constructed.

Show Notes:

--

If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com.

Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com.

Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week.

Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list.

Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by adding this direct RSS link into your podcast app. Full instructions here.

Unf*cking the Republic is produced and engineered by Manny Faces Media, and written, hosted and distributed by Nunya Fuckin’ Bidness.

Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’

Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftr

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to this second installment of Un-Fucking the Republic, where we dissect the good, the bad,

0:06.3

and the ugly of American politics, and highlight the disconnect between U.S. policy and reality.

0:12.1

Today we're talking budget, national priorities, and dispelling the myth that things like

0:16.7

health care, education, and social safety nets are just too expensive to pay for. We are

0:21.6

fucking up, trickle down, by busting up the budget and breaking down how our priorities expose

0:26.2

our lack of humanity. So let's begin. Oh, my friends, we are fucked. Deliciously, unreservedly,

0:36.4

catastrophically fucked, and not the good kind.

0:39.3

We'll traverse this audio journey together to upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right, and middle,

0:46.3

and use magical devices like facts, logic, and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in Bizarro America, the fun house mirror version of what was originally intended.

0:59.6

I have found myself more and more fully committed to being ungovernable.

1:05.6

We'll examine exactly how and why we're fucked.

1:09.6

You want to claim this land is a land of a free?

1:12.6

Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag.

1:15.6

Dig in to why we can't seem to unfuck ourselves.

1:19.6

Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people

1:23.6

than with your image in a history book.

1:25.6

Ask why we settle for leaders who fuck us over.

1:29.0

Please at least leave us alone in our living rooms.

1:31.9

Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radios.

1:35.4

And I won't say anything.

1:36.4

Just leave us alone.

1:37.4

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from UNFTR Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of UNFTR Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.