Weekends: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Left, Trumpism, and Wielding Power
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 138 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 January 9, 2021.
The guest is Noam Chomsky. Noam is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist who's published more than 150 books. He's also laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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| 0:00.0 | The All right. Welcome everyone. Welcome to Weekends with Anna Nando. Anna Kasparian Nando Vila, of course, Nando's Jam into the song our opening song it slaps. Yeah I like the music to bring in the |
| 0:28.0 | Jacobin show as well it's really good but anyway it's been a crazy week. |
| 0:34.0 | Lots of, a lot has happened. |
| 0:37.0 | We had the Georgia runoff races where John Osoff and Raphael Warnock, one, which gives Democrats a very slim majority in the Senate. |
| 0:48.5 | So it started off with some good news, and then of course was immediately followed with a lot of bad news, |
| 0:53.8 | including what we experience in the Capitol building. |
| 0:57.7 | Today's show is going to have a looser format. |
| 1:00.2 | We pre-taped an interview with Nome Chomsky and we actually did that prior to what happened in the capital |
| 1:07.0 | So for those of you who listened to that interview and wonder why we didn't ask any questions |
| 1:11.5 | About what happened in the Capitol. |
| 1:13.0 | Just know that it was pre-recorded prior to that, you know, situation unfolding. |
| 1:17.6 | And I'm not... |
| 1:18.6 | It's my fault. |
| 1:19.6 | It's my fault. |
| 1:20.6 | I should have asked them because I've been I was you know deeply involved in the |
| 1:24.3 | subreddit the R the Donald where this all was planned and I knew I knew it was coming and I should have just |
| 1:29.6 | had the foresight to ask him you know about an event that was going to happen in the future, but so that was my bad. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah, and look, if we had the opportunity to like get him back on today and ask him questions about what occurred. |
| 1:43.6 | You know, I don't even know if I really need to ask him any questions. |
| 1:47.9 | I just wanted, he was just so right. |
| 1:50.5 | I mean, he was so right about so many things prior to the general election happening. |
| 1:55.6 | Like the reasoning that he had for voting for Biden, as opposed to voting, not voting at all, |
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