Republicans & Social Security.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
During last week's State of the Union address, President Biden claimed that "some Republicans" want to sunset Social Security and Medicare, drawing boos and jeers from Republican members of Congress in attendance. In the week since, President Biden has escalated those attack lines, repeating the claims during public speeches in Florida. Republicans have continued to object, saying it's a "falsehood" that there are plans to get rid of Social Security or Medicare.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about Republicans and social security. |
| 1:10.6 | Before you jump in, though, I have two quick things I want to put up here at the top of the podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | The first is a bit of sad news, tough news to share. Last week, I learned of the unexpected passing of Pierre Lipton, who is one of the founders of 1440, which is a newsletter that we have |
| 1:29.2 | partnered with repeatedly entangle. 1440 is like us a news outlet that is after the mission |
| 1:36.1 | of providing balanced and informative news to the masses. Pierre, who is one of their founders, |
| 1:42.3 | was young and brilliant, and he was incredibly generous |
| 1:45.2 | with his time with me. Despite being my junior, I sought him out for advice regularly, and on several |
| 1:51.7 | occasions he picked up the phone or met me for a beer when I was troubleshooting an email |
| 1:56.4 | issue or struggling to make a major business decision or unsure about the path forward. |
| 2:01.7 | I was devastated to hear the news of his passing, and I wanted to acknowledge his passing |
| 2:05.8 | here and just say thank you to him. He will be missed dearly. His family has set up a go-fund |
| 2:11.8 | me for some of the causes that he cared about. We're going to share a link to that go-fund me in |
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