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“I'm Jared Yates, X10 and unfortunately I've got some bad news. Nick Alceman is out with some travel problems, some logistical problems. Maybe we'll hear more about that on the weekend or addition on Friday. So I am left here to hold down the fort yet again.”From the transcript

Nick Hauselman is fighting through some travel issues, so it's one more solo Jared Yates Sexton episode until the boys are back in town. In this episode, Jared moves through breaking news, including reports that Trump and cronies are getting their beaks wet while negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine, the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Russia, the strange case of B1 bombers being pulled in a hurry from a British airbase, and the disturbing election results out of Brazil, where the Bolsanaro family is just cleaning up. As always, if you want to support the show AND gain full access to the Weekender episodes on Friday, head over to http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast and become a patreon. We desperately need your support and every little bit helps.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the Mukhrig podcast. I'm Jared Yates, X10 and unfortunately I've got some bad news. The boys, they're not back in town. Nick Alceman is out with some travel problems, some logistical problems. Maybe we'll hear more about that on the weekend or addition on Friday. So I am left here to hold down the fort yet again. I hope you're not tired of me. I hope that you're still having a good time. We have a ton to talk about today. Part of this larger thesis that we're trying to illuminate here at the Mukhrig and that I'm trying to illuminate with my analysis. I mean, it really, it only becomes more obvious. The more you look at all of this stuff and the more that you actually connect the dots that are very incredibly given to us, they're just blatant about this shit.

Before we get into all of that or reminder, seriously, we need your help and we need your support. We do this show and it is a guiding star of this show that we are not going to take any corporate money. We're not going to take any under the table dark money because to do that in this environment and my god is the environment saturated with one supposed progressive or resistance voice after another of people who are just on the dull To take that money means that you are compromised means that you cannot be honest means that any analysis you might have and most of it is just disgusting and embarrassing and offensive means you can't do it. You can't actually speak truth to power You can't actually expose the stuff that we're talking about on here. So we depend on your support head over to patreon.com slash my correct podcast become a patron gain access to the weekend or additions on Fridays

We know that you're already listening to the previews. Please we need your help And I'm being sincere here. I am I'm not running a grift. I'm not any of the like it is it is put up or shut up time in these spaces We need your help You'll also get live coverage of things like midterms, mailbags, all of those good things especially once Nick Houseman returns And we are sending him our energy and best wishes today as he navigates the travel infrastructure of the United States of America God help him patreon.com slash my correct podcast We begin this show with a story that This is I don't know how to put this there are so many stories in the midst of everything going on that they show up constantly and This is one of the genre of what I like to call raises new questions

Which is just corporate journalist and media speak for this is obvious corruption and if you are to actually engage with it you are to see the reality of how things are occurring and why things are happening But this is the kind of story that just sort of falls through the cracks very often and has massive huge geopolitical consequences in this particular case The New York Times has revealed and again, they're you know it raises questions. They don't want to call it what it is But it raises questions that in discussions between Russia and US emissaries Who haven't been elected or appointed anything and of course it's your friends and mine Steve Whitkopf and Jared Kushner that in these discussions about potentially ending the tragic criminal and brutal war against Ukraine

The Vladimir Putin is now offering a little bit of a side deal Who could have guessed? Isn't it strange how in all of these negotiations and in all of these talks that involve people who have no official appointment Whitkopf and Kushner who are of course LinkedIn to Trump's own personal enrichment all the people around him all of the oligarchs and by the way always tend to have these relationships with other oligarchs around the world who are funding their adventures He's offering a little side deal here Has nothing to do with Ukraine outside of potentially trying to buy off the United States and its government and The administration in charge because they are Inlessly corrupt and endlessly corruptible and self-serving and self-enriching He's offering this little side deal, you know, we're sitting here. We're talking about Ukraine Hey, I had a thought we should probably talk about this very quickly not that it has anything to do with trying to buy off

US leadership in terms of getting the deal that they want out of Ukraine and going forward Vladimir Putin was like hey You know, we've got this company look oil Luke oil Whatever in the hell they pronounce at this point one the largest energy companies in Russia You know, maybe there is potential and maybe there would be an opening here to own look oil and It's assets and its operations Which by the way include Massive massive infrastructure around the world including oil fields refineries and Gas stations around the world including the United States isn't it weird how once more we're talking about monopolies and oligarchs and how all of this feeds into corruption and authoritarian capture Maybe Todd Bowley who is a Trump mega donor maybe he'd like to buy all of that and Maybe you know

Steve Wichoff and Jared Kushner Maybe they can wet their beaks as well and there could probably be buy-in from Middle East partners who fund the Adventures of Whitcoff and Kushner and Trump's projects including Albanian development that Kushner and Ivanka Trump are involved in and Whitcoff's giant corrupt world liberty financial And it's made possible of course because of Vladimir Putin's relationship with his own oligarchs Because once you reach this point of captured monopolization and Illiberal democracy, you know, he keeps these oligarchs close, but he can send them to jail He can seize their assets at any given moment So now we've reached the point where we have representatives Who again are not appointed who hold no official capacity who are involved in their own Financial interest and agendas who are now supposedly negotiating the end of the Ukrainian war

a massive massive massive crime and They're just getting a little side deal Just getting their beaks wet And this is Once more where we arrive and there's a lot to talk about in all of this and in all of the stories that we have to discuss today It's really strange that the deeper politics that play with the incentives with surplus capital and you know if you control all of your financial assets if you are engaged with oligarchs who hold up your regime and you can Occasionally throw them out of a window ever now and then or put them in prison or poison them All of a sudden now this operation which Admittedly would be worth probably billions of dollars and isn't it weird That we're talking about handing over part of Russia's oil infrastructure and production

Which has been a constant even while we're supposedly supporting Ukraine as they're being Absolutely decimated and oppressed and having war crimes committed against the state and their people Isn't it weird that like because of Iran? We've also started trying to get into some Russian oil And that holds leverage over us Isn't that strange how that occurs? We went into a war that we shouldn't have gone into that led to the destruction of global output and production and distribution of oil and now all of a sudden Here comes Vladimir Putin with a little a little token You know, I know you guys are really struggling over there with oil and I know there's a lot of money to be made Maybe the infrastructure that we have some of the surplus infrastructure. Maybe it could you know be sold and Maybe as a result we'll be able to take the country that we weren't able to crush militarily

It's so strange isn't it? How all of these geopolitical moves that are stupid and incompetent and self-ruinous That nobody would green light until this administration Which is just gobbling up everything that it possibly can and enriching itself constantly It's really strange That all of these moves and missteps and mistakes that everybody just wants to scream how stupid they are Isn't it weird that it's then opening up other avenues for the authoritarians who Trump and his cronies and the people around him are already Ideologically lined up around and have one crooked deal both in public and probably in private Not probably will well know how many of these deals are taking place in private It's just so strange how all these things move in And how all these things benefit the same people

I Don't know it's odd It's really really really weird how that happens and yet once more Coverage of this by mainstream media it just creates a denial infrastructure raises questions sure does Sure does raise questions Why can't any of these people just call it what it is? Why can't any of these people just call it obvious corruption? They've got it dead derites They're not really asking questions. It's not really raising questions. You know what this is And of course in traditional resistance circles which I I made the mistake today of researching and studying them and my god I feel my brain feels like it's been liquefied. I feel like it's just oatmeal in there rattling around in the skull because Yeah, they can point to corruption, but they never even move a step further than that

Meanwhile, by the way, they're being funded by a lot of the people who profit from all of this and a lot of the people who You know gain leverage because of this, but yeah, you know, that's neither here nor there I don't know People must make a lot of money not looking at the dots not connecting them And It really is where things are and don't get me wrong We've had corruption that looked like this in the past because the United States as it grew as a hegemon in post-World War 2 era And even before that and on a lesser degree, but To put it in the post-World War 2 era The government didn't just work as a redistribution organ as we talked about last week But it also used the entire apparatus of its military and intelligence community in order to forward the interest of American corporations So there are a lot of deals like that A lot of stuff happened in there and we'll get a little taste of that and a little bit because

Another story that we're gonna talk about here in a few minutes It kind of brings together the old and the new we love that We always love it when we bring together the old and the new So it has a flavor of that, but we're now entering into this strange environment We're not only are our politics and economy captured by people who have no real interest in The affairs of the United States beyond of course Extracting as much wealth from us as possible extracting as much labor in order to exploit us and also Lowering our standard of living in order to increase their own power and profit It's just weird now that these major geopolitical considerations which in the past Still would have had aspects of this, but it wouldn't have been as obvious and it wouldn't have been as overt And it wouldn't have been as much one on one Because we have one crime family that controls our government

And controls the most vast military in the history of the world even though it has been Humboldt and embarrassed and panced on the world stage We are what keeps Ukraine rolling And we've seen Trump go back and forth on all of this. I can't even imagine How many bribes have been given and how many bribes have been offered Over the course of this tragic awful war And now we get to the point maybe some oil fields and refineries and gas stations will do it Because the deeper politics has both gotten deeper and also more shallow While we're on the subject of all of this uh, I do have to address a story that is gaining a little bit of traction Uh, you know, we're talking about Russia. So we might as well address it while we're on the subject

um Over the past few days Uh, a reported 200 people and it might very well be more it depends on who you're listening to and uh, you know Where you're getting your information because on in some social media circles. This is absolutely just Growing larger with every passing hour A reported 200 people are locked down in the here kutska region in Siberia After allegedly a 28 year old worker in a supposed quote-unquote anti-playg lab Was supposedly exposed to pneumonic plague and has died There are rumors of mass government operations including quarantining, arrests, shutting down travel all of that Uh, people right now are worried about the possibility of a new pandemic happening from this I think a lot of people who study biological weapons uh, their eyes and ears are wide open on this particular one And you know, I just wanted to say a few words about it um, I think this is one of those stories

Where we should pay attention But we should also be very prudent in terms of how we do that no facts about things while also being very aware that we are entering into uh, some really really dangerous territory First things first I've done my research on this. I've had a couple of conversations reached out to some experts It does feel as if this strand of pneumonic plague which is very very deadly But it feels like in terms of incubation and symptoms that it is likely That what we're looking at is something that will likely kill the carrier Rather quickly which might keep the ability for it to spread and turn into an epidemic or a pandemic It might lower the odds of that At the same time I Him made very very uncomfortable by the facts of this case hearing an anti-plague lab

My ears perk up a little bit It's it's a potential Thing that this is coming from a Bio weapons lab. It could have been engineered or changed or tinkered with at the same time I don't want to get into conspiracy theories for to admit That these nation states Have and the United States is included with it have been tinkering and engineering Bio weapons for forever And this is one of those sinister sort of burning stories that all along it It hasn't really been discussed or dealt with it's just sort of churned Underneath the surface we all know this is happening. We all know there's potential with this And at the same time like we don't really talk about how authoritarian and nightmarish these nation states have become

In trying to gain some sort of an advantage In terms of engineering these things you might remember of course that Russia has been claiming that Ukraine has all of these Bio weapons labs and and meanwhile here we are Um It's repulsive and extremely dangerous You know, I just wanted to take a moment to talk about this not in order To terrify people about this outbreak whatever it is we do not have the facts around it But I do think the larger discussion that we've been having on this show for years now and particularly over the last couple of weeks As I've been trying to play set and talk about a larger world view and analysis You know, we're in a weapons race right now and with the collapse of the American Empire more on that in a second It does feel as if there is a real potential for a conflagration or armed conflict beyond even what we've already seen so far

A lot of that I think would be fought through drones AI systems very strange very unprecedented type of warfare The likes of which that could make world war one and world war two You seem you know almost small and comparison Because these systems would not just fight one another they would also create untold amounts of civilian casualties I Think following the covid pandemic and again, we don't need to get into where that came from that that could if we knew more or if we had You know de-mystification of the causes and origins all of it We could potentially fit that into this analysis, but we don't particularly know Knowing what we don't know we can now look at this and say You know covid if it could be reproduced if those situations and the environment could be reproduced

That is a weapon of mass destruction you disrupt societies you disrupt their economies you disrupt their cultures You disrupt their politics you disrupt Their state of mind. I mean we're still Dealing and by dealing. I mean we're not actually dealing with it because we're Americans We're not going to deal with hard things But we're still living through the consequences of the covid pandemic in so many different ways and it could be That the warfare of the future could Return Much like after world war one everyone said hey chemical warfare was Was a bad idea It could return to a place where something like this It could become one of the chosen weapons There there were decades there with nuclear weapons in which it was like well We have to develop more rush has going to out develop us we need to increase production

We need to make them deadlier and deadlier and deadlier And everyone said well, it's real politics you have to develop these things You might even have a situation in which you have to figure out how to win a nuclear war as if anybody wins a nuclear war And eventually at some point you have the leaders sit down and talk about anti proliferation and pausing of development of these weapons This is stuff that we should have already talked about This is stuff that we should have already had serious conversations. It's madness It's absolute madness and I don't know all of the details here But I do know in the midst of developing this analysis and developing an idea of where all of this is going We need to have a discussion You add in AI as a tool and a technology that could help with this stuff. We've already seen people Who have been able to use these systems in order to get information about developing existing chemical weapons and bioweapons

You had all of that in like these are all existential crises that we should be having Actual adult concerned conversations about And it's just whispers There's no political platform for this No politician is particularly talking about this. It's not even part of the discourse My guess is in the midst of all of this if you listen to multiple podcasts or watch live streams This might be the only time that you hear a reference to it in the midst of all of this We have so many incredibly dangerous existential crises facing us right now and they enter lock And it's just crickets It's just a a deafening silence

So I'm going to keep an eye on this story I'm going to try really really hard to navigate how much misinformation and disinformation It's hard to do that also speaking of existential crises in a political and cultural environment where the way that we get information now Is either owned by corporate oligarchs who control how things are discussed and presented and covered Or a social media environment that incentivizes bad actors To scare people and provide mis and disinformation It's kind of a bad situation It's kind of a really really Really bad situation Speaking of bad situation in the larger picture that we're talking about here The US has withdrawn 12 B1 bombers from the RAF Fairford Air Force Base in the United Kingdom following threats that we don't know anything about We just know that they were threats

And we know that the operation was carried out so quickly That refueling support wasn't ready for the track from the United Kingdom back to the United States of America where these B1 bombers fled to This of course follows an increasingly strange story And I just mentioned this briefly the other day, but it just gets weirder A strange story of five men who were arrested around the Fairford base for suspected terrorism But get this they were released on bail I want to say that again These five men Who were arrested for suspected terrorism They were released on bail What in the living hell are we talking about here in what world that you and I live in has that ever been the case

What are we even talking about here In this story much like One FBI story after another that I always bring up talking about oh They broke up a major cyber terrorist ring. Well, we hear anything else about that, did we? We can get the details you read these stories and it's just like There are no details No reports no information whatsoever It's almost like some of these things are just made to fuck up I mean, it's not like we saw that before it's not like during the war on terror and the panic following 9-11 That we had one story after another like that in order to justify the enlargement of oppressive and surveillance structures Is it It's not like you might not know this that we had a rash of middle eastern men who were being baited By federal authorities and law enforcement

Into carrying out attacks that they didn't want to carry out and then at the last second they were arrested and or they carried out the attack and nobody talked about how US federal authorities promoted it And pushed it a lot of people who who weren't well That were baited into these things. It's not like these things happened What a weird story and what a strange result I I track all this stuff I Check all the leads. I asked people in the know what they know about it. No one knows What the supposed threat was that led to an entire arsenal of B1 bombers to be removed from this airspace I abandoned it I don't know man. I really don't and before we move forward with the accompanying analysis of all of this

I just want to catch everyone up to speed because so much happens all the time and like sometimes we we lose the big picture and in the midst of all this misdipication in Less than eight months Because of war That never should have happened that was destructive and self-destructive That has benefited all of the opponents of the American order while also I hadn't even mentioned It's been lining the pockets of Trump and the people around him who have invested in all of these things Who have made yet another fortune Insider trading on information that they knew about this war because of their privilege of power Because of that The entirety of our Middle East base structure has been wiped off of the map Very very quickly Our entire foothold in the middle middle east has just evaporated been reduced to rubble and ruin

The petrodollar system In which we had alliances With Middle Eastern allies supposed allies because I mean my god One of that supposed allies the Saudis they they helped Carry out 9-11, but that's neither or there That system in which we provided military protection to these countries Sold us oil And then reinvested the profits from that into American fortunes businesses and interest and the circle kept going around and around and around its own Financial ecosystem they created the foundation for American hegemony in the American order Just that's been wiped from the map as well Creating a historical fuel shortage An energy crisis an economic crisis that is becoming more obvious with every passing day

No matter how much they try and cook stocks and rig the stock market and it's just Basically a crypto rug pool situation trying to inflate it as much as they possibly can before you know the music stops A musical chairs has to end and we're left holding the bag We don't know how bad the food shortage is going to be from everything from diesel fuel to fertilizer shortages You name it We have no idea and it was going to be bad even before this war And on top of all of that Now we're abandoning bases in Europe Also strange for the record that We've abandoned our NATO allies Left them basically on their own Told them that they can't really count on us unless they pay a ransom that they're not willing to pay

And by the way once more Russia is testing their systems defenses and resolve constantly I don't know I don't know it's a lot of things that interconnect And it's just It's this fleeing From American empire which again I've been fully on the record and I'm proud to say I think the American empire needs to fall I think In the trajectory of human events the best thing that could happen is the global capitalism goes away American order based on authoritarian cooperation and exploitation and extraction of capital and resources and Labor it'd be great if that went away But I don't think it's great if it goes away because it's helping the interest and the agenda of Authoritarians and the oligarchs that they partner with

Fucking crazy times He's just crazy times the geopolitical structure has changed So quickly So quickly it has changed Fundamentally in almost every aspect imaginable And Once more We're supposed to you know wonder if this is raising questions Without looking into the entire thing and asking wait that doesn't make sense You haven't you haven't given me a proper explanation much like you didn't give me an explanation for why you attacked Iran in the first place They're not even worried about giving that explanation anymore because mystification takes control over it While most people are looking at these conspiracy theories and of course most of these are always moving towards some sort of

latent right-wing Anti-Semitic thing where like this is a plot by the Jews but no The mystification which allows sort of a Chujaron adventure Navigation of all of this It obscures the larger actual reality That the American Empire and American order is being destroyed It's being demolished Intentionally Oh and by the way another thing that really hasn't been discussed because mystification keeps us chasing all of these shadows and looking at all that 10,000 more American troops and an aircraft carrier moved to the Middle East in the past few days Iran has told us that there is no military solution And again reiterated as I keep saying because they're right They've got us against the wall. They've got all of the leverage

The only thing that's going to solve this problem and it's not going to solve the problem. It's merely you know Going to acknowledge the problem Is complete capitulation and surrender And that can happen So who knows maybe heading into next month We're supposedly we're going to have free and fair midterms, but that's not even something to talk about today Maybe we'll have another escalation And who knows what that's going to look like And who knows what direction that's going to take us I also just because we're having the conversation Man, there isn't an environment right now where we have no details about anything We have one scant story after another talking about threats of terrorism with absolutely no insight or specificity I

Living in this is exhausting and it's intentionally exhausting It is a completely controlled reality in which we are kept from any type of actual information or understanding A perfect environment For terror and fear and fear mongering and activated states in which we don't act rationally I Talk about this today with a real concern I'm very very worried about What the next Days weeks months years are going to bring and I say all of that once more with the caveat It doesn't have to be that way

And Sitting around expecting taking control of Congress to somehow or another fix this is It's a it's it's a madman's game We have the power to stop this To become a catalyst in order to put an end to this before it gets worse Oh, it's maddening Speaking about elections and electoral futility We got to talk about Brazil After years of turmoil including Yair Bolsonaro and Brazil attempting a coup and being prosecuted and found guilty His son Flavio Bolsonaro He currently leads the 2026 presidential election against Lula the the incumbent president by margin of 47% to 45% That means there's going to be a runoff on October 25th because neither candidate reached 50%

As that happened and I can't believe I'm saying all of this allowed because that state of affairs is It's insane to then go out and vote for the son of Yair Bolsonaro But we'll talk more about why that's happening As that happens Yair's wife and in Flavio's mother Michelle One a landslide to become a new senator She's got her eyes on the 2030 presidential election. So keeping it in the family We love it when that happens. Don't we folks His son Carlos also became a senator His other son became a federal deputy and Yair's brother Renato Also became a federal deputy So that means that one family one of the most corrupt families in world politics Despite one of them being banned from running from anything and is currently serving house arrest Remember by the way he escaped to the United States for a while then he went to Brazil now all of a sudden this corrupt

Right wing that shit insane family is now going to have likely a stranglehold on Brazilian politics The second biggest democracy in the hemisphere for the record and um You just look at this and you just shake your head and yes, they should be voted against but These movements are picking up popularity as the problems of the moment are not being solved as material conditions are not being reckoned with Lula is not a perfect candidate by any stretch of the imaginations You might remember I talked about this when lula won the presidential election We had a discussion about it why this was sort of a stopgap measure. Well now all of a sudden the stopgap ain't working The Trump administration of course put their thumb on the scale Trump did have a Bolsonaro come to the White House gave him tacit approval on top of that

The tariff situation the meddling there we don't even know I mean we have no idea at any given point in this mystified environment We don't know if we interfered in this election. We certainly did tacitly We have no idea if we put our thumb on the scale even more and there's no way for us to know There's no oversight Much in the same way that we had one intelligence operation take place around the world for many decades Messing with elections propping up candidates murdering people Kidnapping people Sci-op operations We just did it wherever we wanted And it's really convenient that this is taking place in our hemisphere Which Going back to the larger analysis of what's going on the future world order in which it becomes a multi-polar

shared authoritarian society in which Asia can our Asia is controlled by China Europe by Russia Potentially the Middle East by Iran who knows I mean they are gaining status and power and control with every passing day And the Western hemisphere controlled by the United States of America. I mean It's it's just you look at it coming together and it can send a chill up your spine It's likely the Bolsonaro will win this runoff Maybe we're helping him maybe we're not I mean we're at least tacitly helping him Because of the Trump administration is not just dedicated to self-interagement They're dedicated to the larger international right wing authoritarian project Of which the Bolsonaro's play a role Should be mentioned by the way that with these results a lot of the private companies And oligarchical adjacent companies in Brazil. Oh, there's stocks are up

Because everyone knows exactly what this is You get these corrupt Politicians with authoritarian leanings and authoritarian friends To win elections or at least steal elections whatever it is And everybody knows it's great for profit. It's the reason that it's happening Just also a little note put on to all of this because we need to see the larger picture Over in France Marine Le Pen who is convicted of corruption And supposedly was not going to be able to run in the 2027 uh French presidential election But that's been walked back weirdly enough Marine Le Pen The right wing authoritarian candidate Is now being favored to win the French presidential election In 2027 and is gaining numbers because right now in France

There are giant protests that are taking place by schoolchildren by students Who are so tired of an agenda of austerity that is starving the educational system in France That they've said enough is enough. We're not going to eat this shit anymore. We're going to stand up against this and good for them By the way solidarity to those students So we're seeing energetic kinetic protest in France And I want to point out again to reiterate something that I'm always trying to articulate in my analysis When you reach the point of authoritarian and fascistic capture when you get into that cycle You either fight or you don't fight if you don't fight They're going to take over anyway because conditions are going to continue to favor Right wing authoritarian to will quote unquote put things right Because liberal politicians and neoliberal or liberal politicians will continue to serve the bottom line of the capitalist class

The wealth class and all a garicoclast They'll put a happy smiling face on it, which is what a manual macron has done And what the liberals there have done and as they've done in the United States of America As they've done in Germany as they've done in the UK as they've done in all these supposed liberal democracies as right wing authoritarian parties and figures and personalities have gained power and influence because Of that unwillingness To address material conditions Or you stand up and fight and then the right wing of the Rotarian to offer themselves up As the law and order figures who will put an end to this At least with the fighting and at least with the strikes and at least with the protest you stand a chance And good for these students doing it, but you see the reaction Which is that middle class White liberals as we're seeing in the United States of America

That they would much rather Give I mean they don't want to give support to the right wing authoritarian But they just want you know law and order to come back That's what they want that's what that's what matters to them and this is dangerous and extreme and radical And we've been prepared for this for at least a decade if not longer now news coverage corporate media owned by oligarchical figures previously owned by wealth class figures They have continually both sides this Until it's time for the representatives the authoritarian figures who represent the wealth and oligarchical classes to then take power And they see it as dangerous These things are really really dangerous someone needs to put it to write. It's the same cycle everywhere And so we're not just talking about the United States of America Not slipping into fascism but sprinting towards it

But all of these former allies the supposed liberal democracies it's happening with them too There is no hiding from this there is no bargaining with this The election cycle is literally a calendar of doom It's just putting off the doom that is coming towards us So again, I want to reiterate solidarity with those students You should be treated better our students should be treated better students everywhere Children everywhere young people everywhere they should be treated better And they deserve our support and our solidarity They're doing the right thing and yet look what happens in the political culture and in political contest I've been yelling about this for years Market down Notice it These are provable hypothesis

Trump Bolsonaro Le Pen I mean Nigel Farage for God's sakes Everywhere Happening everywhere And we can't just look the other way anymore and be like well you got show up in November and win that thing I'm so tired of people saying the only thing we can do is show up in November Solidarity To those students and every other opponent of all a garicol fueled wealth class fueled White centrist corporate liberal fueled fascistic capture And exploitation And a massing of excess capital and power Whoo All right, everybody that's going to do it for this episode of the McCrick podcast

We will be back on Friday. I think Nick will be back I if if if if if everything works and and and it turns out the right way Nick will be back on the Friday weekend or I've missed him I know that you've missed him as well If you want to listen to that episode head over to patreon.com slash muckrig podcast become a patron. Please support this show I ask you once more if you've made it this far far in the episode. Are you hearing this analysis elsewhere Are you getting a clearer picture elsewhere or are you being served cathartic bullshit that's being paid by god knows who All right till then you can find us over a blue sky Nick is it Nick houseman I'm a J.Y. Sexton for love of god everybody be safe

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