Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.

The government gives them the drugs, bills bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,

and then wants us to sing God bless America.

No, no, no, not God bless America.

God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.

God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.

Anders J. Lee here. Welcome to Poddam America.

We had a special episode planned that will be still coming out soon, and that is Jake's, some cultural analysis from him.

That should be fun or fun-ish.

And I was looking forward to having an episode off, and then the world, the news kept happening at us,

and there's so much going on that we even we haven't had a

chance to cover for instance the nurses strike here in New York City but in Minnesota of course

you've probably heard by now if you're listening to this, that another person was murdered by

ICE.

That's two people so far.

And there could be more.

We don't know.

But we kind of felt compelled to pair Jake's episode, uh,

fun cultural analysis with,

uh,

an Anders episode,

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