Entering the Biden Era with Thomas Frank

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Thomas Frank joins hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper in this special post-inauguration episode, looking ahead to the Biden era, and how the media can transition from Trump. Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Useful Idiots. This is our first post inauguration recording and...
0:12.8	It's a special show.
0:14.3	Special show for a special day in a special time.
0:16.8	Racism and imperialism are over.
0:18.9	It's all over. The world is back. Actually, it's now advanced to a state of pure awesomeness.
0:26.1	Yeah, and awesomeness and enlightenment.
0:28.1	And who else would we want to talk about this with?
0:30.4	Then the most enlightened person who will ever talk to us, and that's Thomas Frank.
0:35.0	Thomas Frank, who's going to join us the whole show. Welcome, Tom.
0:38.2	Yeah, I'm glad to be here and spread my enlightenment.
0:42.0	We're basking. That's what this is. This is a collective basking.
0:46.6	We're recording after the inauguration. So we're in the middle of a feeling of great joy among the land.
0:55.2	Tom, what was your...
0:56.0	I think the warmth is just sort of percolating through our bodies.
0:59.7	So, okay, first of all, it's relief. So I don't... I will confess.
1:04.1	I was just so relieved. I woke up this morning and the world was still...
1:08.1	The world was still turning.
1:09.3	And Donald Trump's helicopter was on its way out of DC.
1:13.4	That was... That made me pretty happy.
1:15.8	And then Biden stepped up and gave his dreadful speech and it was dreadful.
1:21.2	It was...
1:21.8	Okay, let's get into the dreadfulness. It was dreadful.
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