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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 19th. |
0:04.2 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that is celebrating our first truly anti-corporate president, Donald Trump. |
0:11.5 | After learning that Walmart is going to have to raise prices due to the tariffs he loves so much, |
0:16.3 | Trump posted on true social, quote, |
0:18.5 | Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than expected. |
0:22.1 | Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said, eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything. |
0:28.6 | First, I thought other countries paid for tariffs. |
0:31.7 | And second, I look forward to Trump's Buy Nothing Facebook group drama. |
0:39.3 | On today's show, former President Joe Biden is diagnosed with prostate cancer, |
0:44.0 | and the Supreme Court blocked the White House from reviving deportations using a rarely used wartime law. |
0:49.7 | But let's start with the conversation some of you might be pretty familiar with right now. |
0:54.3 | In Trump's America 2.0, should I stay or should I go? |
0:58.6 | Last week, the New York Times published a video op-ed by three Yale professors, |
1:03.0 | Marcy Shore, her husband, Timothy Snyder, and their colleague, Jason Stanley, |
1:07.3 | all of whom study authoritarianism and all of whom have decided to leave the United States |
1:11.8 | for positions at the University of Toronto's Monk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. |
1:17.3 | Pointing to their own research on how authoritarianism has taken shape throughout history, |
1:21.9 | the professors discuss how they feel like America is falling into the same traps they've seen in other countries. |
1:27.1 | And sure worries about whether our democratic systems can hold up against the onslaught of |
1:31.5 | executive actions coming out of the White House. |
1:34.1 | My colleagues and friends, they were walking around and saying, we have checks and balances. |
1:39.4 | So let's inhale, checks and balances. |
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