In German the word for debt  and gulit is the same (Schuld) and having debt is kinda seen as a moral failing.

You guys should probably disclose that you are college educated professional podcasters before soeaking on the working class

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Once a DJ, Oral Roberts University misfit and entrepreneur mindset guru, Clay Clark has become the organizer of a far-right, religious, QAnon-baiting live show with headliners like Michael Flynn and the Trump sons. Sam Kestenbaum, who wrote a piece about it for Rolling Stone, joins us to discuss this traveling gong show.

Tickets to our tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com

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Sam Kestenbaum: https://twitter.com/skestenbaum / https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/

New Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 204: The Reawakening Tour feat Sam Kestenbaum

In this News Brief, we discuss the nominally progressive news network's lies and omissions when covering efforts to reduce the US's unprecedented jail and prison population.

News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery

We talk about some more cheating scandals, then visit a story about a Tuskegee airman landing in Loretta Lynn's childhood backyard, and finally present an exciting new opportunity for Trillbillies fans: a Trillbillies Essay Contest

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Episode 263: Fish City

This week we address the true Kanye West Of The Academy: Francis Fukuyama, and his End of History thesis. 

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Episode 265: 17 Easy Ways To End History

In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded 10/20, we discuss the morality politics of Star Trek and Pro Wrestling with guests are Robert Greene II and Brandi Collins-Dexter.

A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Morality Politics of Star Trek + Pro Wrestling

In this Halloween themed News Brief, we debunk the idea drug dealers are handing out fentanyl candy to our children. But we also examine why these copaganda panics are able to take hold: namely the failure of liberals to provide an alternative, non-carceral vision for how to handle the very real and urgent overdose crisis.

News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis

Friend of the show Haley O'Shaughnessy (@HaleyOSomething) stops by to chat "yall culture," sports cheating, and the interesting case of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari's heritage

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Episode 266: Calipari In The Coal Mine (w/ special guest Haley O'Shaughnessy)

The CBS to Adrenochrome pipeline — it seems like Lara Logan's fall from grace as a media figure was a real speedrun. On the way she got obsessed with Benghazi and eventually grew so redpilled even Newsmax jettisoned her. In this episode we also cover the recall and redaction of Dinesh D'Souza's '2000 Mules' book and what may have scared him about the Alex Jones verdict.

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NOVEMBER LIVE DATES:
Nov 12th Philadelphia @ First Unitarian Church
Nov 14th Brooklyn @ The Bell House
Nov 15th Washington DC @ The Howard Theater
Nov 18th Toronto @ The Garrison
Nov 20th Chicago @ Lincoln Hall
TIX: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com

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Music by DJ Death (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/album/dj-death-resigned-discipline). Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 207: Lara Logan Gets Pilled & Fumbles the Bag

"Yes, undocumented immigrants take jobs from working Americans. Here’s the proof," an opinion piece in The Washington Post tells us. "Save our truckers, not affluent students seeking a free ride," pleads longtime Republican consultant Douglas MacKinnon in The Hill. "Biden's Student Debt Cancellation Robs Hard-Working Americans, Will Make Inflation Even Worse," proclaims a so-called Expert Statement from the Heritage Foundation.

There’s a warning we hear again and again, particularly from the Right: A policy that would actually help people must be stopped, because it’ll harm the Working Man. According to demagogues like Tucker Carlson and JD Vance – as well as many of their more liberal counterparts – immigration, labor organizing, protest rights, and student debt cancellation simply can’t be allowed, lest they harm hardworking, meat-and-potatoes plumbers and truckers.

But these cynical admonitions disguise some very important truths. Progressive policies serve the interests of many of these plumbers and truckers, many of whom might want to organize their workplaces or have their debt relieved. And the supposed menaces of job-stealing immigrants or entitled lawyers who want others to pay off their loans aren't actually responsible for depressed wages or plummeting standards of living–corporations bolstered by U.S. policymaking are.

On this episode, we examine the right-wing trope of ventriloquizing an imaginary “Working Man” in order to divert attention from policies that serve the corporate bottom line, We’ll detail how this tactic obscures class dynamics between labor and capital, reinforces racist conceptions that harm workers of color, and ultimately suppresses the rights of all workers while absolving their employers of wrongdoing.

Our guest is filmmaker, author and Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor

Ep 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare

"How The Left Created Trump," revealed Rob Hoffman in Politico in November 2016. "Blame liberals for the rise of Donald Trump," insisted S.E. Cupp in The Chicago Tribune the year before. "How the left enabled fascism," explained David Winner in The New Statesman in 2018.

For decades, we’ve been fed a narrative that the rise of any right-wing tendency is the fault of leftists and liberal scolds. The electoral appeal and success of fascist movements and politicians, we’re told, is first and foremost a reaction to blue-haired wokeness warriors whose language and protests alienate and antagonize Real People. These Real People, then, have no choice but to shift further right, where they find a political home – typically shared with the likes of faux-populists like J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, and Tucker Carlson – that makes them feel included and represents their best interests.

It’s a convenient refrain. Instead of placing the blame on wealthy and powerful right-wingers and centrists who actually benefit from the preservation of reactionary politics, or giving credit to left-wing activists for challenging devastating right-wing policies, this narrative instead demonizes the powerless, while insisting that those who are fighting for a better world should simply give up, lest their agitative ways turn off potential allies and create another Trump. Who does this narrative benefit, and how do both overtly right-wing and ostensibly liberal legacy media allow it to persist?

On this episode, we dissect the concept that reactionaries’ politics are the result not of their own interests, but of a snarky, out-of-touch Lefties who say mean things and simply bring up racism, imperialism and other injustices too much, and if they simply went away, the Trump right would starve itself to death and be replaced by moderate, reasonable National Review politicians.

Our guest is The Dig's Daniel Denvir.

Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse

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Ep 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare

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