Episode 12: A Dispatch Before the Impending Chaos

In the Context of Empire

On the Thursday preceding the 2020 presidential election, Jon and Matt sit down for a discussion of the impending chaos. Seeing as there is already enough existing evidence of what a Trump presidency looks like, the focus of this episode is mostly centered on the potential of a Biden presidency.

Specifically discussed:

-Biden’s terrible record on domestic and foreign policy

- Jon’s theory that Biden’s current policy is in essence all an effort to fix his past mistakes

- Matt’s not buying Joe Biden’s BS about his Iraq decision

- Matt’s concern about Biden's likely cabinet picks

- Jon’s hope and skepticism about Biden’s domestic platform

- How progressives should react to a Biden presidency

Mentioned in the this Episode:

CEPR Report on Bolivia 2019 Election- Reveals OAS and US allegations of misconduct to be false

Worth the Price- Short documentary about Biden’s leading role in ensuring the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Biden gives George Bush the Liberty Medal- You know, the likely reaction you’d have if you believed someone lied you into a war that resulted in your own son’s death

Nothing Will Fundamentally Change!- Joe assures America’s parasitic class that it’s all good

America is an Oligarchy- BBC article summarizing 2014 Princeton study

Obama admits that he governed as a moderate Republican- All leftists respond, “Yea… we know.”

Obama brags about his service to the industry killing the planet Yea but he was so cool about it!

Biden’s potential GOP cabinet- Shocker..

Obama’s Shit Show in Libya- He admitted it!

Michelle Flournoy- A hawk’s hawk

Nicholas Burns- Failing upward through the foreign policy establishment

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