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Episode 447 Promo - Dems Double Down (w/ Josh Olson & Trevor Beaulieu)

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

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Screenwriter Josh Olson returns to Bad Faith with Champagne Sharks host Trevor Beaulieu to preview their new culture podcast The White Canon, in which they break down movies that are near-universally loved among white viewers but relatively unknown among Black ones. The duo then get into a deep dive into the latest press from Matt Yglesias and the Democratic machine rationalizing their failure to learn a single lesson about anything.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

I first thought when I watched the first Hillary Trump debate, and people kept saying Hillary won,

0:07.2

but most of those people who were pro-Hillary who couldn't see it from the view of somebody

0:12.7

who wasn't in the metropolitan progressive. They couldn't see it from outside themselves.

0:17.0

So when I was watching, I was like, okay, Trump has a story here.

0:26.1

Trump has a story that Hillary, her husband, Obama, they just signed a bunch of NAFTA stuff,

0:27.9

sent a bunch of jobs overseas.

0:30.5

They basically gutted American manufacturing.

0:32.8

People don't have jobs anymore.

0:38.2

These things are going to overseas sweatshops, and the fat cats are reaping the profits from the lowered margins, the hardworking Americans in the can't eat and make America great

0:42.7

and all this stuff.

0:44.0

And yeah, he's blustering around like a buffoon, but there's a coherent story that he's telling.

0:50.1

And then earlier you were just like, oh, Donald.

0:52.2

He's just going to do that over and over again.

0:53.4

He goes, you can go to my website and check the policy.

0:56.1

And it's like, people don't want to hear you can go do homework.

0:59.2

Like, you got to have a counter story here.

1:01.2

And I kept thinking, like, I don't think he really won described it as in like you know i used to have a lot of

1:11.4

work i don't have work and i hear somebody list all these problems and even if whether he's right

1:17.8

or wrong whether he's scapegoating the right people or not or whatever he's at least seeing my problem

1:23.2

he's at least saying yeah whereas the other person just gaslighting and saying, uh, no, like, who you can trust me?

1:30.3

Or you're lying eyes, you know?

1:31.8

There's a, now I'm really going to date myself, but anybody remember Monty Python here?

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