"UNLESS." Building Back to What?
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
We’re hitting the pause button in honor of our 50th full episode. Quite the milestone and we wanted to celebrate together. And in true UNFTR fashion, we celebrate by running through 2021 from a congressional perspective. What did we actually accomplish and why? How? We top it off with some ways for Unf*ckers to get involved and make change in their communities so that come end of ’22 we can (hopefully) tell a different story.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:38
Chapter 1: 00:01:47
Chapter 2: 00:08:46
Chapter 3: 00:15:54
Chapter 4: 00:23:10
Chapter 5: 00:28:16
Show Notes: 00:31:17
Coffee Updates: 00:33:49
Max's Musings: 00:38:23
Emails + Shout Outs: 00:41:33
Outro: 01:09:00
Bonus FIFA Breakdown: 01:12:19
Resources
The New York Times: Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections
Congressional Progressive Caucus: Congressional Progressive Caucus Calls for Senate Passage of Build Back Better by State of the Union
The Washington Post: Evaluating the success of the Great Society
Miller Center: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Domestic Affairs
Public Leadership Institute: Model Bills
The Intercept: Anti-Trans Bills Are Moving Through State Legislatures With Remarkable Speed
Pod Love
Best of the Left: Episode 1468, Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world
The David McWilliams Podcast: Breaking down the metaverse & why we we need to disconnect
Canadaland: Commons
UNFTR Episode Resources
U.S. Progressivism from 1912 to 2021.
Manufacturing Dissent (Rupert Murdoch).
The Beatification Of Ronald Reagan.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's 99, producer of UNFTR. Thank you, as always, to our unfucking insane level members, |
| 0:05.4 | Sam C, Cringy, Cindy S, Corey S, Nathan E, and our newest member, Michelle H, for helping to |
| 0:12.1 | underwrite the show. Additionally, today's episode is sponsored by Unfucking Pros Kara C, |
| 0:16.9 | Christopher A, and Ed F. We'll catch up in show notes to talk about our coffee partnership, |
| 0:21.4 | among other items. We're finally fully stocked with our original bags and are super excited to |
| 0:25.8 | introduce our new mellow Maynard blend available now at UNFTR.com slash shop. And finally, after months |
| 0:31.8 | of promises, whole bean versions of all of our blends are also now available. Like I said, |
| 0:37.1 | more on that in show notes. |
| 0:38.6 | For now, I'm turning it over to Max for a little bit of a departure from the norm, a conversation, |
| 0:43.4 | a chance to pause and take stock of a few things and challenge ourselves, an opportunity to |
| 0:47.7 | really think about what it means to be an unfucker. So here goes. He's all yours. |
| 1:03.6 | We're speaking the Republic. So here goes. He's all yours. Howdy-do on fuckers, sub-fuckers, Eurofuckers, down underfuckers on Kenuckers, D.11, B.J. |
| 1:08.2 | Kerwin, D. Henderson, Tracy B. |
| 1:09.9 | organic, free trade, shape, wrong, bird, friendly native. |
| 1:12.4 | Help me so. |
| 1:13.4 | We seem to a seeded imagination to the corporate class. |
| 1:16.2 | It is designed to. |
| 1:17.2 | He can still exact a proper balance between economy, ecology, and morality. |
| 1:21.0 | I am willing to walk. |
| 1:23.5 | This is all we wind up with is. |
| 1:25.6 | You don't to you. |
| 1:26.1 | You don't to you. This is all we like, spending nearly $800,000 fucking billion per year. |
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