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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Consumer States Of America

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

America passes the threshold of 100,000 lost from the coronavirus while Donald Trump picks a fight with Twitter. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss this infuriating distraction, define the post-political structure that includes Big Tech and Trump, and examine the confluence of politics and consumerism that has destroyed our democracy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So when he sends out 28 million ballots and they're in all the mailboxes and kids go and they

0:07.6

raid the mailboxes and they hand them to people that are signing the ballots down the end of the

0:11.6

street, which is happening.

0:14.0

But I think we've been pretty clear on what I think the right approach is, which is that I don't

0:20.4

think that Facebook or internet platforms

0:23.8

in general should be arbiters of truth. I think that's a kind of a dangerous line to get down to

0:29.9

in terms of deciding what is true and what isn't. One egregious example is when they try to silence views that they disagree with by

0:41.1

selectively applying a fact check, fact check, F-A-C-T fact check.

0:48.1

Hey everybody.

0:49.3

Welcome to the McCrack podcast.

0:51.2

As always, I'm your co-host, Chair Deid Sexton, and as always, I'm joined by my

0:55.3

loyal co-host, Nick Houselon. It's going to be a podcast of hard truth today. I feel it coming.

1:03.7

I feel like it's necessary. I got some things to say. I think Nick has some things to say.

1:08.3

America, unfortunately, has crossed the threshold of 100,000 deaths that we know of

1:13.3

with the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, as useful as always, Nick, has decided to fight the real enemy, which is Twitter.

1:23.7

And so we need to talk about that. We need to talk about social media. We need to talk about why we're in this mess in the first place. But yeah, just buckle the seatbelts. There's some hard truths coming. Some hard looks in the mirror, Nick. There are. I mean, what do we want to start here? Because I am, mad. I'm a little hot today, I feel like, and I'm ready to go. So where should we start?

1:46.5

Hello.

1:47.1

Let's start with just a total complete bullshit executive order.

1:54.7

That for those who, I assume you're caught up on the news, you're hearing this on Friday.

1:59.8

Donald Trump signed an executive order that basically doesn't really say anything much.

2:07.0

It's hurried like most of his presidency and lackluster and ridiculous.

2:13.3

But it's a reaction to Twitter adding fact-checking notes and flags to his tweets, which is apparently the most pressing matter in the country right now.

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