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474 - Obama Admin Speedrun feat. Osita Nwanevu (11/23/20)
We’re joined by The New Republic’s Osita Nwanevu for a look into Obama’s legacy, his lasting grip on Democratic politics and culture, and how Biden’s administration might feel like a speed-run of his former boss’s 8 years. Then, we vibe out to some of our future Secretary of State’s groovy tunes.
Read Osita’s piece on Obama’s new memoir in TNR here: https://newrepublic.com/article/160285/obama-promised-land-trump-biden -
471 - Poppy, Part 1 (11/12/20)
For the 57th anniversary of the JFK assassination, we're unlocking the first installment of our George H.W. Bush series.
The first part of our in-depth look into the life and career of George H.W. Bush. Covering the many generations of Bush family history in the United States, his father’s business dealings with Nazi Germany, H.W.’s military career and education at Yale, and the intricate web of intelligence, finance, and industrial interests surrounding him that all point to one day: November 22, 1963. -
473 Teaser - Asia is My Home
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472 - Guess I’ll Just Kill Myself feat. David Roth (11/16/20)
Fan favorite David Roth is back to talk Trump’s sad boi coup plotting, Democrats’ fragile new coalition, and Michael Bay movies.
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471 Teaser - Two Bushes Theory
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470 - Mothership Connection feat. Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner (11/9/20)
We’re joined by the Chapo Foreign Affairs desk of Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to discuss what might change and what might continue in a foreign policy transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Then, we get beamed aboard the MOTHERSHIP as we take a look at Daniel and Amber’s recent Jacobin article on Democrats’ material incentives to lose.
Subscribe to Derek and Daniel’s substack Foreign Exchanges here: https://fx.substack.com/
And check out Daniel and Amber’s Jacobin piece here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/democratic-party-2020-elections-campaign-donations-failure
Customer Reviews
All the right people hate this show
“They’re tankies!” or “they’re liberals!” or “they’re secret right wingers/racists!”
A nihilistic but clear-eyed view
Not much to offer in the way of solutions, but that’s the world we live in as oligarchies are becoming monopolies and we approach the singularity of capitalism. At least these guys find some humor in it all. Dim-witteds will say this podcast is a played out trope of nihilist masculine, leftist politics.. but I’d love to find out where else this is actually being played out. Everywhere else I look is full of cosmopolitan, bourgeois neoliberalism. Keep up the struggle.
Fulfills a need
There are times when Chapo is absolutely vital; they give voice to leftist anger/resentment in the face of cloying liberalism, and there are moments when their insights are absolutely brilliant. However, their often-hypermasculine hipsterdom and lack of vulnerability comes at a cost, often in the form of a lack of nuance and absence of serious engagement with the grassroots. Despite this, I still tune in sometimes, particularly when the Democratic Party leadership is at its most disappointing.