The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump’s Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power
We begin with today’s confirmation of an unhinged Putin-loving anti-government QAnon conspiracy crackpot Kash Patel to head the FBI as a dumbest of the self-inflicted wounds the Trump wrecking crew is doing to weaken America, accelerating its collapse as world power, as an upholder of the rule of law, and a beacon of democracy. Joining us is Ryan Cooper, Managing Editor at The American Prospect. He is the Cohost of the Left Anchor podcast as well as the author of How are You Going to Pay for That? Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics and his latest article at The American Prospect we discuss is, “Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History.”
In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump’s Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent
Then we examine the crushing of the federal workforce by Musk and Trump that will at worst reduce government spending by 1% to find the trillions needed needed to make the Trump tax cuts to the super-wealthy permanent. Joining us is Eric Blanc, a Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University, an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics, and director of the Worker to Worker Collaborative. His latest book is We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.
The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking as We Head Into An Era of Techno-Serfdom
Then finally we speak with Erik Baker, a Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, n+1, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, and The Drift, where he is Associate Editor. His new book, just out, is Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America and we will discuss the successor to the industrious work ethic, the entrepreneurial work ethic, exemplified by Musk, and the fraud of the can-do power of positive thinking as we head into an era of techno-serfdom.