TMBS ReAir 46 - Ocasio-Cortez's Winning Socialism & WTF John Oliver w/ Jake Flores & Briahna Joy Gray

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 135 minutes

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TMBS 46 aired on July 3rd, 2018.

Episode summary:

We break down the meaning of Mexico’s presidential election and the embarrassing way John Oliver covers Latin America.

Shoutout to all of the mobilizations last week against ICE.

Chris Maisano contributing writer at Jacobin calls in to talk about the effects of the Janus decision on labor organizing in the US.

We throw the pathetic and delusional attempt by a Morgan Stanley lawyer to create a third way bankers party into the gulag.

David Griscom takes a look at corporate buybacks and the structural weakness of the economy in the Economic Minute.

Crew and senior politics editor at The Intercept Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) is in studio to talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory.

Comedian and host of Pod Damn American Jake Flores (@feraljokes) joins us in studio to talk about his run-in with ICE.

TMBS ReAirs come out every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts and on The Michael Brooks Show Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

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0:00.0	So I take both the party no matter what, no matter where you are, I'll be here for a
0:29.5	day. To help with connectivity and what is a lap-off I'm not going to jail do you think I'm going to
0:56.3	go? That's a fucking good point.
1:03.0	Come on, let's news today.
1:33.0	Mexico elects Porfirio Diaz President. For more than 30 years he will rule Mexico with an iron fist
1:46.0	in what will become known as the Porfirio. To some he is the benevolent father, the peacemaker,
1:54.0	but to others the trader, the man who gave Mexico away to the foreigners.
2:00.7	The Porfirio is in some ways the beginning of that peculiar relationship between Mexico and the United States.
2:07.6	The Porfirio is, let's believe, given the economic thinking of that time that the way to move ahead
2:16.2	was to open the gates to foreign investment. Mexico was right next to the United States,
2:25.7	so Mexico was largely an economic colony of the United States by 1900.
2:39.4	The center of power during the Porfirio is Mexico City. Here Diaz surrounds himself by a group of
2:46.0	technocrats known as the Sientíficos. This circle of power controls much of the nation's wealth
2:53.6	with little regard for anyone outside their circle. The Sientíficos were the people who
3:00.0	implemented his economic policies. These were the people who wrote the legislation for the passage
3:05.6	of laws. These were the people who put together the contracts between the Mexican government and
3:10.8	foreign companies and so on. They were elitist, some of them were racist, that is they believed in
3:20.9	the notion that the biggest problem that Mexico faced was its backward Indian population.
3:51.6	Welcome to the Michael Brooks show, greetings, friends, comrades and enemies we are broadcasting live
4:05.8	from Brooklyn, USA, where left is best as it is everywhere else with super producer Matt
4:14.6	Leck say the yo real quick before you do the tech fix. Yeah head the artician David
4:21.1	Griscombe don't panic whatever it is up he couldn't be heard he did panic a little bit sorry David
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