RFK & Rogan, GOP Primary, How Congress Should Work

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ravi is joined by guest co-host Isaac Saul, founder and author of the popular newsletter Tangle. Presidential hopeful RFK Jr. went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to talk through his candidacy and his years of anti-vaccine advocacy. Rogan then offered vaccine scientist Peter Hotez $100,000 to debate RFK. Should scientists debate conspiracy theorists? After the House Freedom Caucus demanded concessions from Kevin McCarthy during the speaker election, their revolt hasn’t stopped. Ravi and Isaac discuss how the caucus is flexing its power and what House Democrats can learn from their tactics. From DeSantis and Pence to Ramaswamy, it seems like a new Republican jumps into the GOP primary race every other week. We take stock of the candidates and debate who has the best chance to beat Trump. [00:00] - RFK & Rogan [24:09] - How Congress Should Work [38:36] - GOP Primary Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Show notes: https://thebranchmedia.org/show/lost-debate/ Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Robbie Gupta. This is a special episode of The Lost Debate show, a show for political eclectics.
0:19.7	We are welcoming back Isaac Saul from Tangle,
0:22.7	who was just on a few weeks ago. Isaac, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having me,
0:27.8	man. I'm glad to be here. So we're going to touch on a few topics today. I would say all involving
0:32.9	our politics. And the first thing I wanted to ask you about is this debate, or proposed debate,
0:41.7	between RFK Jr. and vaccine scientists stemming from this appearance that RFK Jr. made on
0:48.5	Rogan, do you mind just giving our listeners the background of what's going on here?
0:52.2	Yeah, for sure. So, you know, I's probably, I think most
0:55.4	people are starting to learn by now if they haven't yet. RFK Jr. sort of best known, one of his best
1:01.5	known traits, I think, is that he is a vaccine skeptic. He is, I guess you could, you know,
1:08.7	pretty fundamentally an anti-vaxxer. He's somebody who is called into
1:12.8	question the safety of a lot of vaccines that are pretty popular in America today. And of course,
1:18.7	the COVID vaccine, which I think elevated him to sort of a new level of popularity. And he went
1:25.8	on Joe Rogan recently, the biggest podcast in the world,
1:30.2	essentially to discuss his views on vaccines. I mean, he's obviously running a presidential
1:35.0	campaign, but the context of his appearance, as they stated at the top of the show, was
1:40.1	that Rogan wanted to give him like a fair platform to talk about his views and actually expound on them a bit.
1:46.1	And they spent most of his three hours on the show
1:49.2	talking about his perspectives on vaccines
1:52.6	and a lot of other kind of health related issues
1:55.5	or big pharma issues.
1:58.0	And so, you know, he said a lot of things on the show that I don't think are true.
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