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Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The United States seems to have lost the ability to govern and has given itself over to the whims of corporations that are designing every inch of our lives, our economy, our domestic and foreign policies and ultimately our national priorities. In between busts in the boom and bust market cycles, we’re only capable of tinkering around the edges. As much as we desperately need another round of stimulus, it will be a pyrrhic victory if we don’t fix the structural imbalance in our nation that has repressed and subjugated the poor and working class.

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0:00.0	Oh yeah, we're back with another episode of unfucking the Republic.
0:04.2	Coming in hot, coming at you live, breaking it down on the ones and twos, the wheels of steel.
0:08.8	Eerie, erie, because I'm a bad mamma jammer.
0:12.3	First off, we're not live.
0:14.3	Second, what are you doing?
0:15.7	I'm just trying to break it up and give the kids what they want.
0:18.1	Ah, yeah, so don't do that.
0:20.3	Again, we're not live, and this is not what they want. Ah, yeah. So don't do that. Again, we're not live, and this is not what kids want.
0:23.8	I know, but we're talking about this stimulus bill, and I'm afraid we're going to lose people on this.
0:28.1	It's kind of nerdy.
0:29.5	I mean, that's your brand, so I'm like, you do you.
0:33.8	Let me take care of the fun stuff.
0:36.8	Okay? If you say so, but if the analytics show that people drop off after a minute, I blame you.
0:42.1	Sure. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, we're rolling.
0:45.2	Welcome back to the show. I hope everyone enjoyed our new inter-episode feature on fucking quickies last week.
0:51.2	We're back with another UNFTR deep dive, this time into the nature of American
0:55.6	stimulus plans, now that 80% of us are about to or just received a little, a little some,
1:01.8	some shot in the arm from Uncle Joe. Of course, this isn't our first go around with a massive
1:06.8	stimulus bill, and it begs the question as to whether this is the only way we actually
1:10.8	know how to govern anymore. Starting with the Obama stimulus in 2009 through today, the largest
1:17.0	congressional achievements outside of the Affordable Care Act, which has been assaulted and chipped
1:21.2	away at since its passing, are in fact stimulus bills. Is this all we're capable of anymore?
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