Hey everybody, welcome to the Bucking podcast.

I'm Jerry D.E.T.S. I'm here with Nick Halseman. Before we get going and we have an absolutely loaded show, I just want to send out a quick shout out to the burgeoning labor movement that is picking up.

Shout out to American University staff who's on the picket line today. Shout out to the United Farm Workers

in Nick's, California who are marching up and down the state and demanding better treatment.

Shout out to the Columbus, Ohio teachers who are taking action. Solidarity, solidarity forever.

We're with you. Keep it going. Nick, how are we doing, bud?

We're good. We're doing. We're doing things are never shortage of things to talk about in this pod.

I got to tell you, we picked a good subject.

I tell you what. Keeping track of the descent of American politics, culture, and the far right is,

business is booming, which is not always the best thing I just get

really really frustrated by the the rhetoric on the right about about the left but then again

I get it we're talking about the destruction of democracy and what they're trying to do actively

and they're just saying that the left is doing it and that's just frustrating to me because a lot of these policies are clearly, you know,

at least in earnest, are trying to help people.

And if you don't agree with them, okay, but you can't characterize them as like the destruction

of this country into rubble.

Like that just frustrates me.

Unfortunately, one of the three lines of this episode is the right, blaming the left or the

non-existent left for what they're doing. And we have to go, first of all, around the world,

over to Russia. And we've got to talk about some weird stuff that has taken place, particularly

over this weekend.

Darya Dugana, who is the daughter of Alexander Dugan, and if you followed this podcast or the work that I've done, you've heard of Alexander Dugan, and we'll get everybody

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