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American Fever Dream

Why the “No Kings” Protests Hit Different

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, V and Sami unpack the No Kings protests and explore how a grassroots movement sent a powerful message across the country. Then, they discuss what made these demonstrations feel different, why small-town actions mattered, and what Democrats must learn from the moment. Finally, they take a deep dive into the growing collaboration between tech companies like Palantir and the U.S. military—and what it means for the future of democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4

Rise and shine, fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Speer. And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News. A show that loves to read every funny little sign about our fascist little dictator. I mean, our president, that we can. The signs were good this weekend. I like the signs were good and you know what

0:54.5

sometimes we look we always love having a guest but sometimes we just need some time alone.

1:00.1

We did. And this is the I've never been so happy to have time alone after what I guess we could call.

1:07.7

Do you think this was the craziest weekend that you remember? Because for me,

1:11.5

indeed it is. It was wild because you were out of town. Well, you were out of the country.

1:15.7

The world was breaking down. So our texts, you know, we weren't in the same time zone. It was

1:20.7

very devastating. I just felt like I couldn't get through one news story before something else

1:25.7

completely unprecedented and insane happened.

1:28.8

It was constant every second rolling down the hill, just crisis, one crisis after the next

1:36.7

and no sense of, oh, there are really adults in charge who are going to make sure this is okay.

1:41.3

And this is the thing. It's like all of these disasters were

1:44.8

manmade problems. Imagine if there were a natural disaster or something that was not within

1:51.9

the control of the American military or administration or people. Yeah, we can't, we can't have

1:58.3

weather disasters because he's getting rid of FEMA. So, I mean,

2:02.3

this is the thing. If you think about where we were last week, it was the ice raids in L.A.

2:07.3

We're sort of like really starting to kick up. That was happening this week. Then we had the

2:11.7

military parade insanity. Then we had the shooting of Senator Padilla. Senator Padilla. We had the

2:16.9

shooting of the democratically elected leaders in Minnesota.

2:20.9

It was just like, and then there were stories that would have been front page stories that we're going to talk about today that got completely missed because there was just absolutely too much going on.

2:30.7

I was away for the week.

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