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Episode 391 Promo - AOC & the "Fraud Squad" Fail (w/ Kshama Sawant)

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Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Former Seattle City Council member, socialist, & co-founder of Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith for an important conversation about where the left's focus should be during what is shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous electoral seasons in American history. AOC, Bernie, and almost all progressive electeds threw their support behind Biden even as the general public overwhelmingly lost confidence in him -- and for what? Kshama breaks down AOC's late night IG monologue justifying support for Biden, reviews the evidence for why the Squad's "insider" strategy has proven ineffective, and offers a clear vision for how the left can advance our goals in this unique moment.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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But then we get over to the progresses of it all.

0:03.2

And the AOC and the Bernie and the Ilhan Omar

0:06.0

tweeted out something in the last couple of days,

0:08.4

saying that she felt like people were being too hard on Biden.

0:11.2

It confounds a reason.

0:13.2

I think for me, principally one because in all of the leverage

0:15.9

that they think that they have here

0:17.0

and getting him a change as policy agenda,

0:19.2

Israel, Palestine is just not on the docket.

0:21.8

I mean, it's the exact opposite of it right he has presided over the

0:26.7

unprecedented billions of dollars I mean I'm saying it's unprecedented in the

0:30.9

sense that not that it has always been I mean this will always

0:34.4

mean the US imperialism's policy to prop up the military objectives of the Israeli

0:39.2

state but what's unprecedented about this moment is that the majority of American people oppose U.S. funding for the Israeli states.

0:47.0

That's right.

0:48.0

Even in that unprecedented moment, you see progressives like AOC and Ilan Omar still doing that same thing of continuing to support

0:56.4

Biden while also saying that they are against the war which really doesn't work.

1:01.5

The Gaza does come up in this New Yorker interview. It did not come up once in

1:05.6

AOC's remarks last night. I watched the whole thing. It's quite astounding that she did not even mention that.

1:13.9

It requires a real suspension of disbelief

1:18.5

to think that somehow magically things

1:21.2

are going to be different in a Biden 2.0 as opposed to, I mean obviously a

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