E268 - Antifada Election Desk (Part 1) w/ Varn, Zhana, Reid Kane

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties.

In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we plot THE RESISTANCE!

Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid Kane

Song: Los 3 de La Habana - Cancion de Trump

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh my God, I will vote.
0:05.0	I will vote for Donald Trump.
0:10.0	Oh my God.
0:12.0	All right, everybody.
0:14.0	Put down your plates, finish your mimoses because brunch is over.
0:19.0	We're on to, after that intro song, on to our very nonpartisan election coverage, I guess.
0:26.4	Well, I think everyone can agree that song is a lot of fun, even despite it having swung
0:32.1	the Latino vote so heavily in Trump's favor that he won the election.
0:36.6	Is that what did it?
0:38.7	You know, it's just by a thousand cuts.
0:40.4	I think that was one of the cuts.
0:42.2	It was, yeah, that and the Joe Rogan podcast.
0:46.0	I don't think you can blame just Miami Cubans this time, although they are.
0:49.8	I know.
0:50.5	I really thought the Puerto Ricans were going to come through and save us from Trump.
0:55.1	Listen, I'm in my game right now, I've got two Puerto Rican guys and the one Puerto Rican guy voted.
1:03.3	He was going to vote Jill Stein, but at the last minute, he got into the booth and he pulled the lever for Kamala Harris.
1:10.1	The other guy is like 100% Trump.
1:12.9	Just like Trump, Puerto Rico, let's fucking go.
1:16.0	He was so hyped yesterday.
1:17.5	I don't know what this means politically.
1:19.8	I don't know what it means ideologically.
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