Episode 397 - Reading The Coconut Tree Leaves (w/ David Dayen)

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Executive Editor of The American Prospect David Dayen returns to Bad Faith to help decipher Kamala Harris’ economic policy. Having dodged interviews and eschewed policy proposals, we’re left reading the tea leaves — analyzing who she’s surrounded herself with, and what her surrogates have been saying on CNBC and beyond. What does it mean that her brother-in-law, Uber’s chief legal officer & an Obama DOJ alum, is a senior advisor? How does someone who fought for drivers to be classified as contract employees advise Kamala’s labor policy? Will she be an ally for the banks over the people, echoing the DOJ’s choices after the financial crash? When people close to the candidate refuse to give straight answers on whether Lina Khan will remain head of the FTC, is it because Kamala is trying to avoid ticking off donors who want her gone? Or is it because she’s trying to avoid ticking off the voters who think she’s the best thing Biden been did? Few are better equipped than Dayen to break it all down.

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0:00.0	Yeah, well I just find you look you you when you voted for Biden you got con okay so it's not like mince words
0:07.0	Con's anti-corpor I mean she's an agency person every opportunity to just come back to con. You know I've missed opportunities and I regret that person.
0:13.0	No, I've missed opportunities and I regret that.
0:15.0	Really?
0:16.0	Because I wasn't rigorous.
0:17.0	Would you like me to bring her together with her?
0:19.0	She's a very nice lady.
0:20.0	I'm happy to mean anyone.
0:22.0	I've always been a forgiving fellow too just for the record.
0:24.0	She's a lovely lady.
0:25.0	Really?
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:27.0	Smart, nice person.
0:28.0	Life.
0:29.0	It's my nice person indicator. So, I'm very glad to have back on bad faith podcast today David Dayen he is the
1:05.9	executive editor of the American prospect and in my humble opinion one of the most
1:11.4	important voices with the institutional political knowledge to really
1:15.6	help us understand what's going on in the current political moment, one of the most important journalists
1:20.0	on the left today.
1:21.2	So welcome back.
1:22.1	It's such a pleasure to have you again.
1:23.8	Quite an introduction thank you very much. Well look I really mean it I've been thinking about this a lot as you know the
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