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The Muckrake Political Podcast

When In Doubt, Blame China

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Republican Party rolls out a strategy to blame the coronavirus pandemic on China and "Democratic traitors." Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the cravenness of it all, and the danger of rising fascism and the prospect of widespread, manufactured paranoia and racism.

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0:00.0

And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there

0:07.0

a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

0:16.0

It's a scandal with me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party's brightest

0:21.8

minds to go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately

0:27.9

to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American

0:34.0

people.

0:35.0

You know, if Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the

0:38.3

Federalist Papers, that's what they need to learn from America. They don't need to learn

0:41.7

quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America.

0:45.8

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I am your co-host, Jared Deid Sexton. I'm here

0:50.9

with my favorite co-host, Nick Houseman. We are knee-deep still in the coronavirus pandemic, and we have a lot to talk about today,

1:00.7

but first things first, the GOP is apparently deciding to blame China for all of its failures

1:08.8

in the coronavirus pandemic.

1:12.6

There's a memo circulating.

1:17.6

And Nick, tell the good people about this strategy that is taking shape. Okay. There's nothing more, shall we say, delightfully Republican, than to attempt to find something

1:26.2

to make worse than the present administration, a Republican,

1:31.0

that they are all supporting.

1:33.0

Delightfully, Republican is such a great oxymoron.

1:36.3

I love that a lot.

1:37.5

Yes.

1:37.8

I mean, it's reassuring in a way.

1:40.3

They haven't changed their tactics, but they're always trying to figure out who they can shove underneath the people who they want to really deserve blame, right? And so, okay,

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