News Brief: The JFK Files
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Trump released all the remaining secret JFK files! Except not really. And they're full of revelations! Except not really. (They're mainly full of people's social security numbers which, it transpires, is pretty much all the remaining redactions were hiding.) Anna Paulina Luna (R, FL) is leading a new congressional investigation! Er... no, she's inviting conspiracy theorists into Congress to confirm her ill-informed beliefs. The mystery is solved! Or deepens! Except nope nope and nope.
In this impromptu News Brief, Jack and Daniel jump off from a supremely stupid clip of reactionary conspiracybrained shitheads Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan to ponder the changing political meaning of the conspiracy theories around the Kennedy assassination, why it has migrated from a left preoccupation all the way over to being an obsession of MAGA and the far-right.
Along the way we encounter the peculiar and controversial author Gerald Posner, who is able to debunk JFK conspiracy theories but apparently unable to see the problems with Israel's policies in Gaza, Elon Musk doing seig heils, or Gender Criticals who think the Trans movement is all funded by evil rich Jews (or possibly alien lizards).
Yes, this is the world we live in folks.
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Sean Munger: Oswald Acted Alone Part 1: https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=jhWAKR-GzJHnQacz
Part 2: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?si=Dkr3Nd75Jjlv6j95
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:12.2 | That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for along for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed. |
| 0:30.6 | Okay. |
| 0:31.6 | Give that to RFKJ. |
| 0:36.6 | Okay, sir. This is I Don't Speak German. |
| 0:42.3 | Here we talk about the far right, their fellow travelers, and what they say to each other when they think we're not listening. |
| 0:52.3 | The show is hosted by Daniel Harper and me, Jack Graham. |
| 0:56.1 | We're both he, him. |
| 0:57.5 | Be aware, we cover difficult, sometimes nasty subject matter, so content warnings always apply. |
| 1:03.8 | Start with the obvious joke. |
| 1:05.5 | And we're back and to the left. |
| 1:07.9 | Daniel, how are you? |
| 1:10.4 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:11.2 | I think you do a version of that joke every time we talk about this topic. |
| 1:14.5 | I love it every time, though, so it's great. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, I'm a terrible self-plagiarist, and people who've been listening to me for a while will hear, I'm sure, lots of self-plagiarism in this one, because you and I have talked about the Kennedy assassination on a podcast before. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | A very old podcast. |
| 1:31.7 | That one is long and it's got other people in it. |
| 1:34.3 | Maybe we could cut a little bit of that and kind of put it out for the audience. |
| 1:37.1 | There's a bonus or something, but, you know, I think it's fine. |
| 1:40.0 | Could be fun. |
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