RFK Jr.'s Health Agency Bloodbath
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode - John talks about Senator Cory Booker's dynamic, historic, record-breaking speech against Trump on the Senate floor. Then, he discusses the ramifications of RFK Jr. gutting our health agencies with thousands of people being laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC, CMS, and FDA are uncertain. Next, Professor Corey Brettschneider returns to talk about the deliberate attempt by Trump to curtail free speech at Universities and the Trump Administration admitting they made a mistake in deporting a Maryland resident to El Salvador. Then, producer Chris joins in with the news that Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election despite Elon Musk spending millions on her opponent. And finally, John interviews documentary filmmaker and journalist - Gianna Toboni about the death penalty and her new book "THE VOLUNTEER: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die with Dignity"
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, it's a great time to be an America who actually gives a damn about other Americans and can't stand mediocre, fascist, destroying a once great democracy, isn't it? |
| 0:18.8 | It's not supposed to be easy. |
| 0:20.5 | It's not supposed to be fun. It's not supposed to be fun, |
| 0:22.0 | but it's always a great time to be on the right side of history. I'm John Fiegel saying. Good evening |
| 0:25.7 | and welcome to Sirius XM. Congrats on being on the right side of history, the side of history that |
| 0:29.9 | oppose slavery, the abolitionist, the side of history that opposed segregation, the side that |
| 0:34.4 | opposed labor exploitation and child labor. Isn't it great to be a progressive |
| 0:38.8 | and beyond the side that cares about bringing health care to all Americans, even the ones you |
| 0:43.9 | don't like because you know that kind of empathy and system just works better? You're on the |
| 0:48.9 | side of people who helped convert our old folks out of so much homophobia. Isn't it better to be on the side of the straight people who woke up and realized that |
| 0:58.2 | LGBT rights or rights that affect all of us? |
| 1:01.1 | Isn't it better to view immigrants, including the undocumented one, as actual people? |
| 1:06.6 | Wasn't it great to be against the Iraq War? |
| 1:08.7 | To be against Nixon, I can only imagine. |
| 1:10.7 | I was so honored growing up. My dad had been so against Nixon and against Vietnam. |
| 1:15.2 | Wasn't it great to oppose George W. Bush's shitty economic policies and warn everyone for eight years exactly what would happen? |
| 1:22.0 | Wasn't it shitty to be proven right? |
| 1:23.8 | And they never learned. |
| 1:25.0 | Y'all were right about Sarah Palin. |
| 1:26.8 | Y'all were right about Sarah Palin. Y'all were right about Mitt Romney. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, Bill Clinton, we can complain all day, but y'all were right to choose him over Bush. |
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