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Приєднався 21 кві 2022
A spot where John (who is not your lawyer) talks about the issues of the day from a Left-ish perspective. Expect hot and/or cold takes on politics, civics (remember civics?), culture, history, and more!
Email questions and suggestions to KeepLeftPod@gmail.com
Email questions and suggestions to KeepLeftPod@gmail.com
Con Law Professor REACTION to LEAKED Project 2025 History Training Video!
John reacts to a leaked Project 2025 video about the purported tenets of conservatism. Does the Claremont Institute-coded Professor get his American History correct? Does he understand what the Declaration of Independence was really doing? Does he understand how many Articles were in the Constitution? Which parts of the Constitution does he conveniently skip? (and do they rhyme with "sequal brights" and "sestablishment applause"?) And what does $70 million get you in production values and grammar checks? John answers all this and more, in this video.
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My Top Six Choices for the Veepstakes 2024!
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It's probably only a day before Kamala Harris announces the results of her #veepstakes and I give you my choices for who I think makes the most sense politically! The conventional wisdom is that the choices will be most likely: Governor Ben Shapiro (D- PA), Senator Mark Kelly (D- AZ), Governor Timothy Walz (D- MN), Governor Andy Beshear (D- KY), Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D- MI), Governor J.B. P...
Why "Personnel is Policy" is so troubling, and how "Project 2025" goes back farther than you think.
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Today, John goes to the next section of Project 2025, "Chapter 3: Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy," co-written by Donald Devine, a hold-over from the Reagan Administration. They don't want to "manage" the bureaucracy, so much as spoil it; turning it into a corrupt shell of what it once was. You can find the entire Project 2025 here (so you can read it for yourself): static....
Biden Out! Harris In! What Now!?
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It's been one hell of a week in American politics, as Biden decides not to seek re-election, endorses Harris, Harris secures the Democratic Delegates she needs for the nominations, and then raises over $100 million. Phew. John dissects why it happened, where we stand, and where we might be going from here, and also, why Project 2025 is still important to unravel. Thanks for watching!
Project 2025, Vought Industries, and the Office of Management and Budget
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John continues his march through the Project 2025 Manifesto by looking at the chapter on the "Executive Office" by former Russell Vought (we're not making this up), the former OMB Director under Donald Trump. Come for the lazy bullet points, stay for the fascistic take over of bureaucracy!
Mental Health Break!
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John took a mental health break yesterday and wants to remind you all that it's ok to not be ok! Take some time to smell, or just admire, the flowers. Hope you're all ok! Normal service will resume in due course! Mental Health Hotline, US: mentalhealthhotline.org Mind.co.uk (mental health help in the UK): www.mind.org.uk/need-urgent-help/using-this-tool/
Project 2025 and the Office of the White House
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Project 2025 takes aim at the Office of the White House with some mostly "inside baseball" suggestions for how to reorganize the office. It may be interesting if you're a West Wing freak, but otherwise, you might find it kind of boring... except... EXCEPT... there are a few suggestions that are a little... dodgy and kind of unethical. John explores those as well as indulges in some pedantic and...
French Lessons - What can today's elections in France teach us?
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With today's shock elections in France, where the far-left coalition of the New Popular Front managed to gain more seats than the Centrist Machinists, and the far-right National Rally, John looks at whether there are any lessons that the Left here in the United States can learn. Do we need coalitions to take down the Right? Or can we go it alone?
The Forward to Project 2025: Introduction to Fascism?
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This week, as John begins his long slog through the entire Project 2025 manual, "A Mandate for Leadership," he picks out some choice passages from the Forward by the President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D. What to they think the two biggest threats to America are? What country is surprisingly not mentioned in the Forward? Which two Presidents get name-checked? And how fasc...
Project 2025: The Scope of the Project
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In this episode, John takes a quick look at last night's UK elections, glances at the Biden interview on ABC, and then scans through the Table of Contents to give a sense of just how much of the Federal Government the Project 2025 team is trying to change with its manual. Buckle up, everyone- it's gonna get bumpy. You can check out a copy of the Playbook here: static.project2025.org/2025_Mandat...
Worst.Campaign.EVER! The Tory UK Election Campaign of 2024!
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On US Independence Day, we take a look at how, regardless of the result, Rishi Sunak and the Conservative (and Unionist) Party ran what is possibly the worst political campaign in the history of the Western World. We hit all the major strategic blunders and what lessons they might have for us on the Left. Jon Oliver on this UK Election: ua-cam.com/video/tkAqwHiAR-g/v-deo.htmlsi=I-Q-6tqFSPlSqJGt...
What is Project 2025 and why we care!
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(Edit: My apologies to everyone listening: for some reason I got it in my head that it was "Project 2525" and not "Project 2025." Hopefully it wasn't too distracting!) Today, John looks at what Project 2025 is, who's behind it, and why we should care. He touches a little bit on why it should truly bring everyone on the Left together, no matter what. Here is the Project 2025 Handbook: static.pro...
Cass Redux and Dealing with THAT Debate
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John discusses the latest intensive analysis of the Cass Review, performed by Professors from Yale, University of Southern California, and Drexel University (among others), finding that, surprise, surprise, the Review was shoddy and poorly researched and composed. John's very relieved they echoed a lot of his concerns. You can find the new report right here: law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/doc...
Keep Calm and Beat Trump!
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In the first of hopefully daily video podcasts that look at what's going on in politics today between now and the election, John takes us back to the important thing: we have to beat Trump.
Cass Backwards: Analyzing the Cass Review on its Own Terms.
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Examining the British Cass Review from a legalistic perpective. We examine the text of the Review on its own terms, finding inconsistencies, weasel words, and outright contradictions in what was supposed to be an "independent" and "evidence-based" investigation into medical services provided to trans children and adolescents. Spoiler alert: it plainly wasn't. Other analyses of the Cass Review i...