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Episode 258: Are the Republicans the Party for Workers? Two Nic’s on US Politics

Posted: November 10, 2020 in Uncategorized
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During the election campaign, Trump argued that “Republicans have become the party of the American worker”. Nick is joined by Nic (previously of Bitchy Shitshow and Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack, now doing the new show Pynk Spots) to discuss this claim and break down the US election result and a lack of focus on class and economic inequality from the Democrats.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Baseketball ‘Playoff Tiebreaker’, The Simpsons ‘“Recount” scene from “The Simpsons”’, Lowkey ‘Daily Duppy’.

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Episode 256: “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” – The US Election with Jason Brownlee

Posted: October 16, 2020 in Uncategorized
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This show features politics professor Jason Brownlee on the upcoming US election. The discussion covers voter suppression, voting Democrat versus third party, identity politics and much more!

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, The Simpsons ‘“You have to vote for one of us!” (“It’s a two party system”)’, The Jimmy Dore Show ‘DEMOCRATS’ #ListenToBERNIE Hashtag FAILS!’, Democracy Now! ‘Cornel West & Ben Jealous on Whether Progressives Can Push Joe Biden Leftward If He Defeats Trump’, schmoyoho ‘WE’RE ALL DOOMED – Trump vs. Biden ft. “Weird Al” Yankovic’.

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Episode 149: So America Screwed the World…What Now?

Posted: November 14, 2016 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (49mins, 38MB).

Sick of hearing about President Trump? Us too…so here is some more Trump coverage! We discuss the election result and the importance of the Left moving beyond ‘progressivism of the rich’.

To analyse the election and the fall-out, we draw on Naomi Klein, Thomas Frank, Bernie Sanders and Russell Brand.

There’s a discussion of left-wing critiques of identity politics and an anarchist defence of identity politics – thanks to Rebecca from Anarchist Affinity. For more on identity politics, check out our 117th episode.

There’s also a breakdown of who voted for which party based on race, income etc.

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For more of our coverage of the election, check out our recent posts on Facebook and Twitter.

Clips:

Morrissey ‘America is not the World’, Lazertits ‘Boss Bitch’, South Park ‘Kumbaya My Lord’, Russell Brand The Trews ‘Trump. Right. Okay, the world’s gone nuts (E372)’, B. Dolan ‘Which Side Are You On?’ – for more versions of this classic song, check out Which Side podcast.

You can listen to a short (11 minute) version of this episode, which features our discussion on Trump and class, here: Who Are These People Who Voted for Trump?. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 148: The Lesser of Two Evils or the Evil of Two Lessers?

Posted: November 3, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Nick is back with one final episode on the US election, featuring some listener feedback on our last two episodes (#146 and #147) on this topic. Jeremy Mendelson @CriticalTransit makes the case for why he is not voting for Clinton and the importance of voting for third parties like the Greens.

There is also some discussion on Trump, class and the urban/rural divide in the US. For more on this, check out Cracked podcast, Jimmy Dore and Chomsky on the impact of NAFTA (Trump opposes this free trade agreement).

*Despite the title of the above video (and the photoshopped hat!), Moore is NOT voting for Trump!

The episode also features a new segment ‘Angela Davis ALWAYS Makes Sense’.

There has also been yet another horrible new policy by the Australian government towards asylum seekers. For more on this, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @ProgPodcast – Katie has been posting a lot about this on there.

Clips:

Billy Talent ‘Voices of Violence’, LOWKEY ft LUPE FIASCO, M1 (DEAD PREZ) & BLACK THE RIPPER – ‘OBAMA NATION PART 2’, Angela Davis – interview 1972 – talking about revolution, Jimmy Dore ‘A Hillary Presidency Sustains The Neoliberal Nightmare – Or Does It?’, Michael Moore Explains Trump’s Appeal Like Only He Can, War on Women ‘Roe vs World’.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features Nick’s discussion on Trump and class, here: Small Elements of Legitimacy Amongst a lot of Illegitimacy in Trump’s Campaign. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

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