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secure. Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Mary Matei. Thanks so much for being

here. Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content.

On today's show, we'll be featuring two guests.

Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack Up Capitalism, Market Radicals, and the Dream of a World

Without Democracy.

We'll join us to talk about the broligarchy and how things are going under co-president Elon Musk.

And we'll hear from Michael Tracy, usefulity it's fan favorite, one of my favorite journalists.

He'll be talking about his impression of the Trump administration so far.

And is Donald Trump living up to his campaign promises of America first?

And what's up with Donald Trump promising to own Gaza after not mentioning that as part of his

campaign pledge?

And we'll also hear Michael's thoughts on the Ukraine war, which Trump is talking about ending.

But knowing Donald Trump, it's hard to expect him to follow through.

So we'll talk about that and a whole lot more on today show.

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