Weekends: Will Infrastructure Sink Biden?
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🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
David Sirota joins Weekends to explain why corporate America is working to dismantle the infrastructure bill and how progressives can fight to retain the climate and anti-poverty measures in the bill. Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from September 3, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Nando.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, what up? You're watching Weekends on Jacobin. I have the privilege of being joined |
| 0:21.3 | today by Paul Prescott. Nando Vila is out. He's taken a little bit of a break, but he'll |
| 0:26.9 | be back next week. Paul, I'm super excited to have you on the show and I'm really looking |
| 0:31.5 | forward to your decode. You want to give the audience a little teaser? Yeah, sure. Well, |
| 0:36.1 | it's great to be here again. I hope I can do justice and fill Nando shoes, but I'll be |
| 0:40.7 | talking about charter schools today, the charter school industry, clearing up some myths, |
| 0:45.4 | some common-held myths. There's a really great new report that gives some of the reality |
| 0:49.5 | of what charter schools have been up to. So I'm excited to talk about that. |
| 0:53.9 | Later in the show, we're also going to be joined by David Sarota to help us decode a little |
| 1:00.3 | bit of the debate that's ongoing regarding the Senate Reconciliation Bill. That includes |
| 1:07.5 | all of the big agenda items in Biden's infrastructure bill, which was of course stripped away in the |
| 1:13.0 | bipartisan bill that is likely to pass because it's full of all sorts of corporate giveaways. |
| 1:18.6 | What is the future in tail for the more important, more robust bill? David Sarota will help us |
| 1:24.3 | figure that out. We're of course going to ask him a few questions about the Supreme Court's |
| 1:29.5 | decision to essentially avoid blocking the anti-abortion law in the state of Texas. It'll make |
| 1:36.7 | its way through the lower courts, but in the meantime, obviously, there are some serious ramifications, |
| 1:42.9 | and we're not even sure if the lower courts will strike it down. So we'll talk to Sarota about |
| 1:48.8 | that. In my decode today, I'm going to talk a little bit about the Ivermectin stories that have |
| 1:55.5 | been flooding the headlines. Where is it coming from? What are the origins of this parasitic virus |
| 2:05.4 | drug that somehow all of a sudden is considered a treatment for COVID when in reality, there's no |
| 2:10.7 | scientific evidence indicating so. There are profit motives behind pushing the drug. That's the case |
| 2:15.9 | I'm going to try to make. But before we get to any of that, I thought that Paul and I could talk a |
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