Putin, Politics, and the Billionaire Puppet Show

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today, V and Sami break down Zelensky’s U.S. visit and what it means for foreign policy—because nothing screams “global alliance” like a right wing reporter playing fashion police in the Oval Office. They also dive into Zelensky's visit to King Charles's house, the European response, and why billionaires just can't resist meddling in politics. And because reality isn’t unhinged enough, they explore the bizarre collision of celebrity culture and space travel—because apparently, launching influencers into orbit is the next big power move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Rise and shine, fever dreamers, look live, my friends. I'm V. Speer. And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is American Feverdream presented by Betches News. Where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience. Another week it is.
0:50.3	Ooh, it's going to get even more absurdiest tonight with the state of the union.
0:54.7	I am not looking forward to it.
0:56.8	I will be watching it.
0:57.8	I know a lot of people are boycotting it and I fully support that.
1:00.1	I don't think you need to tune in to Russian propaganda.
1:02.5	I will watch it for you.
1:03.5	Me and Sammy will break it down. because this is Trump's first non-consecutive term, you know, in the first year of a president's term, their quote-unquote state of the union is called a joint address because they're going to be laying out their agenda.
1:21.8	And then the subsequent ones are called a state of the union.
1:25.5	But let's say you do straight eight years, then you only have
1:30.2	one joint address and then seven states of the union. But because Trump had a, you know, a space
1:37.2	in between a little break, he's doing his second joint address. I didn't realize this until a few
1:42.9	people started referring to it to me as a joint address. I'm like realize this until a few people started referring to it to me as a
1:46.4	joint address. I'm like, why are we using this language? Like, I know the state of the union is
1:49.8	technically a joint address, but I didn't really understand why people were using that language.
1:55.5	But now you know in case you get confused. Now we know. I am not looking forward to it at all.
2:01.7	I think, you know, MSNBC was publishing this morning his approval ratings, and he is up on
2:08.0	immigration.
2:08.7	He's up on general, like, you know, how they think the president's doing.
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