Useful Idiots 2022 Special plus Claire Daly & Mick Wallace Unlocked

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full end of year special on Ukraine, Guantanamo Bay, and Meet the Press’s cringiest moments: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-useful-idiots-2022?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 2022 is nearly dead! Last year in our year recap with Thomas Frank, we asked “WTF will happen in 2022?” While we predicted correctly some brutal Jan 6 hearings and a nightmare midterm year, none of us thought the biggest news of the year would be a proxy war in Ukraine. So in our 2022 end of year special, Aaron and Katie deep dive on the latest in Ukraine, Zelenskyy’s Churchillian visit to Congress, Pelosi’s weird kiss, and all the insane politicians, generals, and corporate journalists who can’t seem to stop saying the quiet part out loud. And now that the year is over, we’re asking you: WTF will happen in 2023? Let us know your craziest theories in the comments. Subscribe for the full end of year special. Plus, miss our full interview with Irish members of European parliament (and Useful Idiot rockstars) Claire Daly and Mick Wallace? We’re giving everyone the full extended interview for free. It’s the Useful Idiots 2022 end of year special. Thanks for sticking with us all year, it’s been a wild ride. Let’s keep mourning and laughing into 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper.
0:08.0	And I'm Aaron Mattick and happy holidays to everybody.
0:12.0	And yes, this is our end of the year show where we're going to be doing a special look at some of the recent news and some of the news of the year.
0:19.0	Yeah, please do become subscribers at subsec that's useful idiots subsec calm you'll get a full extended review from us this week.
0:30.0	And it's always a good time and it was a great thing to do you get extended interviews and you get your Thursday throwdown midweek dose of media madness.
0:39.0	So let's get into our first media clip. We have a lot of material for you on this issue, which is not surprisingly Ukraine. What do we got Aaron? What's our first clip?
0:50.0	Yes, President Zelensky rounded out the year with a visit to Washington and because he is the figurehead for this now more than $100 billion proxy work is Congress just approved another $45 billion.
1:05.0	He was graded as a hero. And so check out how some of the media described Zelensky in starkly similar terms describing him as a church alien figure.
1:18.0	Politicians in the press often toss around comparisons to Winston Churchill, but this time minus cigar and the whiskey it fits.
1:26.0	And so he's a white and face to face with the man who was who has drawn comparisons to Winston Churchill and in a dramatic wartime appearance reminiscent of Winston Churchill and World War II.
1:36.0	This was historic. Some people have compared it to when Churchill came. Zelensky is very much acting in the Churchill in tradition.
1:45.0	What could be a Churchill in moment? He is a modern Winston Churchill with an iPhone.
1:50.0	Someone who probably is the most courageous and inspirational leader since Winston Churchill.
1:56.0	Where Winston Churchill stood generations ago. So to President Zelensky stands.
2:04.0	So you're almost saying that Zelensky's got a hard job than Churchill is.
2:07.0	Yes, exactly what I'm saying.
2:08.0	This is a historical figure. This guy actually can be compared to Winston Churchill. The Lincoln in 1860.
2:17.0	Wow, truly, Churchill, it's killing how Churchill in it.
2:25.0	My favorite line in there was Winston Churchill with an iPhone.
2:28.0	Yeah, really spanning the gamut of, you know, drawing the historical parallel, but also making sure that we understand we're talking about modern times.
2:37.0	Right. Yeah.
2:38.0	He has an iPhone. Yeah.
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