Like fucking clock work. The Citations Needed Guys don't miss
Even when I was still a lib, I was like "why should I even want to uNiTe with the monsters who cheered on the Iraq war?"
I chatted with someone in Iraq yesterday and the amount of destruction and oppression that still exists due to American imperialism there had me fuming.
He started DMing me because I called America "The Evil Empire" and he thought I was also from Iraq haha
Bro this episode was amazing and perfectly timed, exactly what I needed for inauguration day. Citations is the only untouchable podcast, excepting some of the news briefs maybe
They definitely know those are hot takes. We all make bad hot takes, some times
This post made me actually download the episode and give it a listen, and man I had forgotten how fucking boring it had gotten. To be fair, they're not the ones actually spouting the unity line, they're discussing the themes of Biden's speech. But they're just repeating his message and then wondering aloud if it's going to work, they don't actually have any meaningful analysis. It's even more watered down now that they fired Claire Malone, who I'm pretty sure got the ax because she was the only one who would ever call out mainstream media narratives as bullshit.
There was a funny part halfway through the episode where they asked the political science professor they invited on if it was possible for a speech to actually have an effect on unity, and she went on some long spiel about how division comes from the top and it's really the politicians that are sowing discord and regular people aren't that divided on the ground. And then the one black commentator on the show said, "Are you sure about that? Because I'm thinking about June and July and there seemed to be a lot of division on the ground level too", and the poli-sci professor was left stumbling.
Also 100% about Clare. She was the only good one. Hopefully she uses her "former of 538" cred and starts a media criticism podcast
Libs are amazing. Like, how do you not find Marxist theory? I mean, it took me a few decades, but it's also not my job to study this shit
To be fair, they’re not the ones actually spouting the unity line,
So uh, has anyone listened to any Pod Save America lately? I wonder how that's going.
I hadn't even thought about them, I might have to give myself a masochistic listen to see what they say about Biden's speech
I too will torture myself listening to this. I used to like going into the subreddit and peeling back the lib skull to inject some cognitive dissonance directly into their brains, but that got me banned.
Libs just want safe spaces to pretend they are good people.
Should Citations Needed be the first podcast I ever listen to (l have never actually listened to any, in any format). It seems well liked
