Weekends: Biden Wants to Spend Trillions... Why Are We Still Mad? w/ Seth Ackerman
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from April 3, 2021.
We talk about why democracy demands that Bolivian coup plotters be punished, and with Jacobin's executive editor Seth Ackerman about why Joe Biden’s new spending plans won’t be enough to fix America.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? Welcome to Weekends with Anna Casparian and Nando Villa. You love that song |
| 0:23.8 | more than anyone, Nando. I mean, I love it. I love it. But you're always like grooving |
| 0:27.4 | and moving to it. That little piano. It's a lot of fun. We've got, I mean, as always, a great |
| 0:38.9 | show ahead for you guys. Later, we're going to be talking to Seth Ackerman about why Biden's |
| 0:44.4 | infrastructure proposal is not anything close to the new deal, although Lib Dems, Liberal |
| 0:50.8 | Democrats would make you think so. And I'm going to also talk about Biden's infrastructure |
| 0:56.9 | bill from a different angle. And that's the framing that we're now seeing from corporatists |
| 1:03.4 | to essentially try to destroy some of the more beefy provisions in it. And then Nando, you're |
| 1:08.6 | always come and correct with the foreign policy. Yeah, I think that, I don't know, maybe |
| 1:12.5 | the people can chime in on the chat, but I think the people like when I take a tour around |
| 1:16.4 | the world, maybe do some foreign policy talk. I think they're bored of the US news. They |
| 1:20.6 | want, they want foreign news. People are saying people are saying, you know, very many people. |
| 1:25.7 | I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. So it'll be great. So we'll get to all of that in just |
| 1:31.8 | a minute. But I do have a quick item I'd like to discuss for banter today. And it has |
| 1:40.1 | to do with the story that was published by Politico. In fact, Politico makes a lot of |
| 1:43.4 | appearances on the show today, not for good reasons. But there was something published |
| 1:49.2 | about Representative Acasio Cortez donating about $5,000 to dozens of vulnerable Democrats |
| 1:57.3 | and some of these like purple states. You know, these are Democrats who got elected in |
| 2:01.1 | 2018. And they're considered vulnerable because they might have flipped, you know, the seat |
| 2:06.7 | in that district. But they're very concerned that Republican attacks will destroy their |
| 2:13.0 | chances in getting reelected. So Politico reports that, you know, AOC hands over surprisingly, |
| 2:20.3 | like without any real notice, $5,000 per Democrat, vulnerable Democrat, without going through |
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