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Unf*cking The Republic

The Music Has Stopped: The Political Response We Need to This Financial Crisis.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. economy has already crashed. The stock market is just the last one to figure it out. In this essay, Max talks about what happens when hegemonic economies collapse and how the U.S. has been able to keep things afloat while the bottom falls out. He draws parallels to the crash of 1929 and the subsequent Depression and speaks to the differences. There is a path forward for Progressives but it won’t be a presidential run. The DNC will make sure of that. But we can borrow from Russell Vought’s playbook to build a coalition of support on the ground.

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0:00.0

Come listen to the man who knew we finally had enough, so we started up a podcast and called upon his friends.

0:13.7

No matter where you're from or your unique political bend, here's the story of our perfect American nest.

0:20.7

Max in 99 with the facts to blow your mind

0:23.8

The nanny with the wicked sound design

0:26.4

So grab a seat and pour yourself a glass of writer's tears

0:30.7

Unfucking the republic is about to begin To begin Every so often I have to just write.

0:46.3

When I hit a wall, when I'm frustrated, I have to just get it out.

0:50.8

So this is my unfiltered frustration, but an essay form. Now, it will have a

0:56.5

diagnosis and a prescription, so I hope you stick around, and I hope you bear with me.

1:03.8

Donald Trump's superpowers of distraction from gilded ballrooms and meetings with dictators, petty insults to the press, and social media outbursts, are being matched by the genuine Epstein-file distraction, and for the first time, this White House is losing control of the narrative.

1:24.0

But if we push past the real and perceived distractions, there is a fundamental truth lying in

1:30.0

weight that will soon take center stage.

1:32.9

The next financial crisis.

1:35.5

So if we think back, the teapot dome scandal, prohibition, the Scopes monkey trial,

1:41.4

immigration crackdown, influenza pandemic, and the rise of Christian

1:45.6

fundamentalism and nativism. These were the issues that dominated the headlines during the

1:50.8

roaring 20s of the past century. Just as the Epstein files, multiple cases against Trump,

1:57.6

immigration crackdown, COVID-19 pandemic, and the rise, again, of Christian fundamentalism

2:03.2

and nativism, have dominated the headlines a full century later. Echoes and rhymes, if not outright

2:10.6

duplications at times. These scandals and issues were all anyone could talk about until they weren't.

2:18.6

Toward the end of the 1920s, the economy was already in decline.

2:23.5

The stock market crash didn't happen all at once like we remember it.

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