Is Everyone At DOGE An Intern??

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today, V Spehar and Sami Sage unravel the absurdities of modern politics—from AI-generated satire to the Senate’s latest Voterama. As federal budget cuts hit local communities and far-right movements surge across Europe, they draw unsettling parallels to history in the making. Plus, who is Big Balls and why does everyone working at DOGE act like an intern?? With sharp analysis, biting humor, and a deep dive into the power of creativity as resistance, V and Sami break down the chaos and make sense of the madness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Rise and shine, fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm B. Speer. And I'm Sammy Sage.
0:39.3	And this is American Fever Dream, presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience.
0:48.1	Happy Tuesday, V.
0:49.9	Happy Tuesday. And for those who are watching at home, no, I'm not in my Jeff Goldblum era.
0:55.0	I just have a bang and migraine in these little glasses.
0:57.8	Help me with all the lights in here.
1:00.2	Well, we appreciate your sacrifice in being here, staring at the screen and talking about some of the craziest shit we've seen.
1:08.7	You know what I think triggered this migraine?
1:10.3	No pun intended. What? Okay. I think triggered this migraine? What?
1:11.7	Okay.
1:12.2	I was watching this morning because we record on Mondays, remember, but you hear us on Tuesday.
1:16.7	And today on HUD, on like all the TV screens, they were playing this AI generated video,
1:21.9	allegedly AI generated, we don't know, it could be real, of Donald Trump kissing Elon's
1:26.9	feet, saying long live the
1:28.1	real king.
1:28.7	And I think that that is like one so iconic, good trouble.
1:32.5	They do so much with AI to make Trump look like a superhero.
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