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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Coronavirus Pandemic: Profit Over People

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump and Republicans are getting itchy and calling for social distancing and emergency procedures to expire, surely putting millions at risk. Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the dangerous mindset that powers the Right and corporations, as well as the possibility of more damage to our democratic institutions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are there things you regret in the way you handle the crisis so far?

0:06.0

I don't think so, you know, I'm looking forward. I don't look back.

0:09.0

I'm a person that looks a forward thinker, I guess they would say.

0:14.0

But the president is right. The cure can't be worse than the disease.

0:18.0

And we're going to have to make some difficult trade-offs you look at automobile accidents which are far greater than any

0:26.6

numbers we're talking about that doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no

0:30.1

more driving of cars so we we have to do things to get our country open

0:37.1

hey everybody thanks for joining us today on the Muckusk to get our country open.

0:40.2

Hey, everybody.

0:42.5

Thanks for joining us today on the Muck Wreck podcast.

0:45.8

I'm Nick Houselman and joined by my co-host, Jared Yates Sexton.

0:47.9

And there's a lot going on.

0:51.8

And we got Jared, I think, upset again, as he's been,

0:52.8

as we've all been recently.

0:55.2

And so there's a lot to talk about.

0:59.9

Jared, we got to talk about how this money is going to be handed out by the government.

1:04.4

Well, I mean, we know how this money is going to get handed out by the government. I mean,

1:09.9

we're well aware. We've watched this dog and pony show a few times. You know, for all of us who sat and watched in 2008 as the financial

1:12.2

crisis resulted in, you know, our money being handed over to the people who melted down

1:17.6

the economy, we know how this thing works. And right now, as we're speaking, it's Monday,

1:24.4

March 23rd as we're taping this thing. The Republicans right now are trying to pass a bill.

1:31.3

And just to give people an idea of what's happening in this, because the Republicans, obviously,

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