TMBS ReAir 125: The Edge Of Democracy ft. Briahna Joy Gray & Petra Costa
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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TMBS 125 aired on Jan 31, 2020
Episode summary:
Fact-checking Warren.
Briahna Joy Gray (@BrieBrieJoy) National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders joins us to talk about the campaign as they head into the Iowa Caucus.
Shoutout to Bernie Sanders for getting the most donations from the troops.
During the GEM, David (@davidgriscom) makes the case if we want democratic socialism we must use capital controls.
Petra Costa (@petracostal) the director of The Edge of Democracy joins us to talk about her film on the erosion of Brazillian democracy and the rise of fascism.
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| 0:00.0 | Crazy Burning. |
| 0:13.0 | In case you haven't noticed, Donald Trump, yep, Donald Trump is now paying attention to our campaign. |
| 0:20.8 | In fact, in the last few days, he and his Republican apparatchiks |
| 0:25.6 | have been attacking us over and over and over again. |
| 0:30.6 | In other words, the most dangerous president in modern American history |
| 0:35.6 | is getting a little nervous. And you know what? He should be |
| 0:40.0 | getting very nervous. Because after we win the Democratic nomination, we are going to beat him |
| 0:46.6 | and we're going to beat him badly. And let me tell you how we're going to do that. |
| 0:53.4 | By telling the truth. and the truth is that trump is not |
| 0:58.8 | just the pathological liar and it's not just that he's running the most corrupt administration |
| 1:05.2 | in the modern history of our country or that he is a racist the sexist a homophoophobe, a xenophobe, and a religious, |
| 1:13.6 | diggin. That's true, but that's only half the story. The other half of the story is that he |
| 1:19.6 | is a total 100% fraud. In 2016, Trump told the working people of this country that he was going to stand |
| 1:31.5 | with them against the establishment. Remember that? He was going to take on the establishment. |
| 1:38.8 | What a joke. Trump told everybody that he was going to provide health care for everyone. |
| 1:47.0 | And then, as president, shock of all shocks, he attempted to throw 32 million Americans |
| 1:56.0 | off the health care that they have. |
| 1:59.0 | During his campaign, Trump told the American people |
| 2:03.6 | that his tax plan would protect the working class |
| 2:07.1 | of this country and not the wealthy. |
| 2:10.6 | But the legislation he pushed as president |
| 2:13.6 | over a 10-year period gives 83% of the benefits to the top 1%. |
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