Episode 389 Promo - Going Down With the Ship (w/ Rania Khalek)
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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BreakThrough News journalist Rania Khalek returns to Bad Faith to talk Hezbollah and developments that could lead to a broader regional war in the Middle East -- but not before she indulges in some horserace talk. Weeks after Biden’s disastrous debate, why are progressives his strongest defenders, and why isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza a nonnegotiable for progressive electeds? (Note: that this was recorded just before the Trump assassination attempt.)
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| 0:00.0 | I mean look I think there's some opportunism as at play it's like you don't want to be seen like the wrecker or the person who's going to go against the party I mean this is pure speculation I'm not in touch with a O.C. I don't know but I would assume she wants to be a good team player is to stick with |
| 0:14.7 | Joe Biden until you're told to do otherwise. |
| 0:17.2 | Otherwise it's a huge risk to your future in the party, but I mean I think that's also a testament to the fact that a lot of these people are not in the Democratic party to actually really change anything they're in it for themselves. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, they support more progressive policies here and there but for the most part they're not willing to risk |
| 0:34.3 | their next re-election campaign by going against the party apparatus which also makes me |
| 0:40.8 | really resentful towards the way they treat third parties because all these people |
| 0:44.8 | will act like by voting third party, by supporting third parties, by entertaining the idea of a third |
| 0:50.9 | party, you're somehow going to get Trump elected and it's all about |
| 0:54.0 | defeating Trump. Well if it's all about defeating Trump explain your behavior |
| 0:58.4 | right now because everything you're doing is going to get Trump elected. |
| 1:02.1 | That's right. |
| 1:03.0 | That's exactly right. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, a new poll I just saw today shows that 85% of Democratic voters think that Biden is too |
| 1:09.8 | old to run. |
| 1:11.1 | We knew two years ago the poll showed that 75% of Democratic voters did not |
| 1:15.1 | prefer Joe Biden as the candidate in 2024. That is what's so painful to me. |
| 1:20.3 | Yes, the Pod Save Bros are out now tweeting all of this information, but it's not new |
| 1:25.3 | information. It might be, you know, somewhat more cute following the debate and following |
| 1:30.4 | the George Stephanopoulos interview and following that bizarre kind of morning Joe Colin interview |
| 1:36.4 | but it's what has always been there and so it's there's like this hesitation I can't quite enjoy. |
| 1:43.0 | Like I can't quite enjoy the I told you so moment because it just it falls empty because now we're in this realm where it feels like it's too late and my cynical read of this and I spoke to |
| 1:53.7 | Dr. Jim Zogby last week about what the possibilities are around the convention and all of that but like my |
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