When Kush Comes to Shove

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman unpack the real reason Hakeem Jeffries sat down with Jared Kushner, and it has nothing to do with subpoenas or tough talk. The meeting is a preview of the bipartisan coalition that always forms before an economic crisis: corporate Democrats and Republicans getting on the same page to protect the donor class when the bailouts start. From there they trace the collapsing Canada trade deal, where Trump invoked a 1930s tariff law no president has ever used and Carney walked away from the table, into the bond market panic that sent Treasury Secretary Bessent scrambling with a buyback intervention that lasted exactly one day before the market shrugged it off. Bessent's answer to $40 trillion in debt and interest payments that now exceed military spending? 'We'll grow our way out,' the same promise Republicans have made after every tax cut since Reagan, and it's never once been true. They also dig into ICE's new $20 million purchase of electric shock gloves already being used on students in Omaha public schools, a device designed to leave no marks and no record, built by a man who believes Trump was anointed by God. Support the show by signing up to our Patreon to hear the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast