Trump’s Plans: The Big Picture [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian and Nicole discuss the how to counter the far-right billionaire agenda that Musk, Trump, and the new administration are ushering in, what it seems like their aims and tactics are, the impact of Kendrick Lamar's halftime show, the contradictions in the cutting of USAID, the shadow cabinet concept that some Democrats are suggesting, the possible resumption of the Gaza genocide, Zohran Mamdani's run for mayor of New York, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:05.3 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.1 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. |
| 0:19.6 | We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. Thank you, Nicole. And again, thanks to all the patrons. Thanks to all of you. |
| 0:28.1 | Nicole mentioned that we couldn't do the show without you. That's absolutely true. We have been |
| 0:33.3 | expanding our content somewhat in the last two months. We've been bringing the third show, |
| 0:38.8 | trying to most weeks with Lan, Sima Fulihon on Fridays that comes out on Saturday. That's a |
| 0:46.1 | patron's only show. We'd like to produce a lot more content. We'd like to produce more live |
| 0:51.9 | segments like this one with people who are patrons, |
| 0:56.4 | because there's so much to talk about right now, |
| 0:58.7 | so much to analyze, so much a crying need for perspective. |
| 1:03.5 | Today, we have a lot to talk about. |
| 1:05.6 | Gaza may re-errupt as a war zone, |
| 1:10.0 | a full-scale war zone on Saturday. Donald Trump is encouraging the Israeli |
| 1:15.6 | government at Yahoo to end the ceasefire and begin bombing. And he said, all hell will break |
| 1:22.9 | loose if all the hostages are not released by noon Saturday. |
| 1:28.2 | Now, the agreement between Hamas and the Israeli government that created the ceasefire |
| 1:32.8 | was not for all the hostages to be released on a particular day. |
| 1:38.6 | This is timed with an incremental release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian hostages, also known as Palestinian |
| 1:46.5 | prisoners, over a protracted period of time. |
| 1:50.1 | There was a stage one, stage two, stage three. |
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