We Are The Exhausted Majority

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

13:00 TEMP CHECK: Will this week’s headlines give you a fever or make you freeze? 45:00 MAIN NEWS: Sami and V define the term ‘Manufactured Consensus’ and how social media has been used to sway popular opinion towards believing that a third party has more support than we think. Not sure how to spot a bot? Make sure to tune in next week for an in depth media literacy lesson. 1:01:40 DOWN BALLOT: Our down ballot girlie of the week goes to The Working Families Party, which is going about the third party thing the right way, while striving to build a multiracial party of working people to transform our country. 1:06:00 AMER-I-CAN’T: Why is the rent so high? Because corporate landlords are fixing it! Pre-Order Democracy In Retrograde: https://shorturl.at/7xQO2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pets bring so much joy from those happy greetings at the door to the warm
0:05.2	cuddles on the sofa so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a
0:10.6	range of delicious chews made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets teeth and gums.
0:18.5	Essential for their overall well-being and a happy healthy life they give you plenty of smiles so look after
0:25.8	theirs with dental life pick up dental life in the pet food aisle
0:32.0	rise and shine fever dreamers look alive my friends. I'm V Spear and I'm Sammy
0:36.6	Sage and this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News where we explore the
0:41.8	absurdities and oddities of our uniquely
0:44.1	American experience. Today we are checking the temperature on Naomi Biden,
0:48.3	Caitlin Clark, the Washington Post, the EU elections and more. Then we're back on the election manipulation beat
0:54.2	with a chat about how miss and disinformation create something called manufactured
0:58.6	consensus. Ooo spooky. And for our down ballot era we are chatting about the Working Families Party and
1:05.0	how you really should try to do third party politics. Finally an Americante
1:09.7	about rent
1:13.4	fixing, wondering why your rent is so damn high, we're gonna let you know.
1:15.1	The rent is too damn high.
1:17.2	If there's one thing that we know, that is universal, the rent, the mortgage,
1:21.7	all of it. And we're gonna find out that the rent, the mortgage, all of it.
1:23.0	And we're going to find out that the rent is actually too damn fixed.
1:26.0	Stay tuned, we have something infuriating that should just be everywhere.
1:31.0	It's scandalous, truly.
1:33.5	Sime, how was your weekend?
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