“People seem to be moving into these areas & these platforms that allow for more customization…I think the big tech platforms have done such a messy job of all of this that I think people want to understand the rules of the game.” -
@TaylorLorenz
"Increasingly we have an internet that is deeply centralized, & where the largest platforms are able to engage in anti-competitive practices that make it extremely difficult to create alternatives or for musicians to pull out." -
@evan_greer
#JoeRogan
"Neera Tanden, she's South Asian American like I am. She has fought viciously against $15 an hour -- has been shoulder to shoulder with Biden in decades of attempts to cut social security benefits. Who are we going to trust?"
Our latest w
@cmkshama
:
"[A] few people from POC communities...will be appointed to important positions, but at the end of the day, they have been appointed there bc they're willing to uphold an agenda that is deeply detrimental to the vast majority of oppressed communities."
Bad Faith would like to wish a speedy recovery to all of the Presidential candidates who have RSVPed for the official Bad Faith Presidential Debate. Get well soon, debaters
Nope—tweeting isn’t Presidential. Not sassy tweets, not solid tweets. Tweeting is just tweeting. Leadership is Presidential. Coalescing a team is Presidential. Inspiring people is Presidential.
.
@SusanSarandon
campaigned hard for AOC NY living rooms long before she became a household name. On the latest
@BadFaithPod
, we asked her how she feels about how the squad has done so far.
"They have to present something, which in some way pushes [Biden]...besides tweeting."
Listen Liberal author Thomas Frank explains how liberals distanced themselves from populism, embraced technocratic scolding, and left the field wide open for conservatives to appropriate the lingo while delivering nothing for working class people.
“What if we’re having such a hard time rooting out racism bc we’re focusing *exclusively* on the racism, as opposed to the figures that conveniently come in & pour fuel on the fire anytime there’s any progress done bc they directly benefit from it in a pecuniary way?”
“They basically went on this huge crusade against ‘fake news,’ but what…that was was just news that wasn’t folded into the corporate media apparatus, & they wanted to eliminate & purge any sort of news that goes against these foreign policy narratives that are dominant.”
"What you saw was an algorithmic censorship campaign taking root, where Google & a lot of these multinational corporations that control social media giants, they preemptively changed the algorithm, back-paged independent media & indie news." -
@AbbyMartin
"I'm not minimizing Trump. I think that you are minimizing the extent to which everything before Trump was also terrible, you just didn't care because it was polite, and you were't paying attention. It didn't upset your office party dynamics, or whatever."
‼️NEW EPISODE‼️
On today's episode of
@BadFaithPod
, we adjudicated all the insurrection takes, from the free speech arguments to Kamala's Vogue cover. All judgements are final. There will be no appeals. 👩🏾⚖️
"In building the progressive party, you're breaking a 57-yr dysfunctional relationship with the Democratic party...this is a relationship & a partnership with a group of people who could choose to get up and leave at any time."
Listen to ep 19 here:
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
ft
@KillerMike
‼️
The artist, activist, & entrepreneur opines on how Dems can win the GA Senate runoffs, & defends the right of voters to leverage their votes for real returns.
Also,
@virgiltexas
explains the coup discourse to me.
“Forcing the vote, as it were, is not a one off. To the people who want us to stop talking about it: It was never about a one off. It’s a political strategy that exposes the gap between what elected officials are willing to fight for and what the people that elected them want.”
"The Democratic party is not the home for a real progressive agenda, and as long as you're going to attach yourself to the Democratic Party, expect that this sort of thing is going to happen." -
@cmkshama
✨Watch✨ the full interview now:
@BadFaithPod
Liberals are claiming to think
@BadFaithPod
were horrendously mean to Chomsky but if they debated him they'd end up telling him all his policy goals were pie in the sky & like calling him racist for supporting Medicare for All
"You had demonstrations in the streets of 20-30k ppl, & it was truly a demonstration in the sense that it demonstrated something else. It said 'here's 20-30k ppl that will shut down your [the] New Deal." - Boots Riley
Falling in line and voting for Democrats doesn't make them respect progressives. The largest protest movement in history didn't do it. Neither did a massive health & economic crisis.
We spoke to Boots Riley on
@BadFaithPod
about what might work.
"Every single thing as we've been discussing on this show indicates [Biden] didn't want a better outcome...We all saw the same thing happen w the $15 min wage, but [only] one cohort of us--the left--is furious...bc the entire media narrative is that this was an inevitability."
‼️New from
@BadFaithPod
: Labor Pains‼️
After we caught up on the
#FightFor15
:
@LaurenKGurley
on the Bessemer, AL Amazon worker union drive, & on the other side of labor divide, CEO
@DanPriceSeattle
, who made headlines by implementing a $70k min wage.
"The reality with Tanden is she came in in the 1990s as a Hillary Clinton Pick...CAP was created basically to be the holding pen of the Clinton administration...It's sort of just grab on to Hillary & hold on tight."
@MattBruenig
on the new
@BadFaithPod
‼️New: Red Green w/ Richard Wolff‼️
.
@profwolff
on
#ForceTheVote
and why we need to support politics to the *left* of elected Democrats -- even to the left AOC & the squad.
All jazzed up on
#Inauguration2021
programing and looking for more content? Our latest episode of
@BadFaithPod
is one of our best yet.
Marxist economist Richard Wolff on
#forcethevote
, the importance of 3rd parties, his classmate Janet Yellen, & more.
"I'm with the folks who believe that we get ready for our moment, we have our marches, we have our pressure, we push & sometimes, it works...It's always possible. And I think that the only thing that often stops us from getting there is a Dem pty that says 'this isn't the time.'"
Current Affairs’
@NathanJRobinson
talks the liberal meritocracy sham, the myth of a “qualified” justice, and best friends RBG-Scalia in our panel with
@DavidSirota
&
@ESpinSegall
Listen free on Patreon:
iTunes:
“There’s no rationale for why [Biden] refuses to do the things he could do by executive order. Donald Trump also didn’t have super majorities in Congress but managed to do quite a bit that there was a lot of handwringing about…why don’t Joe Biden doing the same?”
‼️Fight Harder (w/ Ro Khanna)‼️
This week, I pushed
@RoKhanna
on why progressives hesitate to call out Biden, along w/ “rotating villains” Manchin & Sinema, for obstructing democratic policies from a $15 min wage to student debt cancellation.
Subscribe:
"The most aggravating thing is the use of identity politics to defend right-wing policy-- to defend slashing entitlements. It's the double talk of the crap about hand-ups & we're going to reform opportunity," which is code for cuts. -
@virgiltexas
Who better to discuss Biden's pick for OMB director, prolific poster, & "progressive" think tank president Neera Tanden than a man who founded a lefty think tank after Tanden got him fired for posting?
We spoke to
@MattBruenig
on the new
@BadFaithPod
.
"The constitution doesn't have a role for the parliamentarian. I believe that Joe Biden believes we should have a $15 min wage, but the question is does he believe that the structural inequality in our country is a more urgent problem than trying to find some common ground?"
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: Ep 50 w/ Ro Khanna‼️
We asked
@RoKhanna
why he doesn't identify as socialist, why Biden isn't fighting for 15, why House progressives don't have a candidate to replace Pelosi as speaker, & more.
Subscribe here to listen:
"That they are now talking abt removing climate spending from an infrastructure bill...is outrageous, immoral, & wrong. And if you're somebody who hears those facts, & thinks the problem is calling it outrageous immoral & wrong, then you are outrageous, immoral & wrong."
"Of course, the President doesn't have superpowers, but the idea that the President can't do anything is just absurd, it's belied by history, it's a ridiculous argument."
The full VIDEO of the new
@BadFaithPod
@davidsirota
is up now.
#infrastructure
“No one out there is…willing to say…that Biden of course was not going to do the right thing — he hired Steve Richetti…as a senior advisor, he’s got Cedric Richmond…as a senior advisor— that enabled the corporate media to get away with pretending Biden was something he isnt.”
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: "How Right the Left Was" (w/ Slavoj Žižek)‼️
I asked Žižek to revisit his stance on Biden/Chomsky/ vote blue no matter who, the
@Fwd_Party
, vaccine mandates, Julian Assange, lab leak theory, immigration, student loans, & Star Trek.
"The most I've ever made I was probably making $1200 a paycheck & I was literally vacuuming shit every day...So I don't think we have a real discussion and a real grasp of how broke 🇺🇸 is." -
@wordisbond
"I don't think we have a real grasp on how broke 🇺🇸 is. But on the right we have an answer for that...things like immigration...You can blame those things on why ur broke. But on the left we're not having a real discussion on how actually poor 🇺🇸 is.
@wordisbond
@BadFaithPod
“They’ve been saying ‘Tax the Rich,’ they’ve been wearing all these cool clothes, they’ve been making all the tweets for a really long time. And you know, I asked Alex to her face—‘why not challenge the power of the Dem Party in a real way?” -
@ReddIsAri
‼️Housing & "The Dress" w/
@ceaweaver
&
@ReddIsAri
‼️
"[W]e could be starting conversations to really challenge the nucleus of this government's power, which is the financial & war power, & we are just continuously having these cultural conversations."
NEW:
@BadFaithPod
"I'm between a lawyer and a hooker poet laureate right now, and it's just kind of ping ponging through me." -
@virgiltexas
"A lot of men would love to be in that situation." -
@briebriejoy
"They truly would." -
@rabbitwhite
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: A Very Virgil Valentine‼️
Close out the long V-day weekend w/ writer, sex-work legend, & true romantic
@rabbitwhite
talking to us about her acclaimed book of poetry, Porn Carnival, COVID dating, & Virgil's view of romance. 💞
"You have these geniuses on Wall St who are fooling around in the laboratory w/ these really dangerous financial instruments, & oh look what happens?...In all of these screw ups you see the same forces at work. One of them is group think, & another one is conflicts of interest."
"Biden's got blood on his hands w/ mass incarceration, invasion & occupation of Iraq, unleashing of Wall St greed ... & this vicious Isreali domination and occupation of precious Palestinians. He has been not just behind them, he's bragged about [it]."
‼️New:
@CornelWest
on
@BadFaithPod
‼️
On how the media is treating his tenure battle differently than Nikole Hannah-Jones's, the complicity of the Black media elite in the Neo Liberal project, Bernie wanting to tone down the rhetoric on Palestine, & more.
Watch “mysteriously sexy”
@virgiltexas
turn the color of his mic in this clip, then listen to
@FlyingWithSara
break down why labor matters with so much passion it could inspire a general strike.
On the new
@BadFaithPod
,
@SusanSarandon
@
@marwilliamson
on why they choose to speak out against injustice despite the personal and professional consequences, and how Sarandon got canceled by the academy.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
"I lived in Roxbury & I commuted into Cambridge every day. And that's where I say I learned to hate liberals...Those are the kind of activists you're speaking about -- boutique activists who have traditionally been & remain utterly irrelevant." -
@ChrisLynnHedges
"I thinking that us coming out of quarantine, I'm so starkly reminded of watching people who spent significant times in, 6 or 8 months, in maximum security, coming back in the general population...People are going to take years to recover from this." -
@xychelsea
on
@BadFaithPod
‼️New on
@BadFaithPod
‼️:
@xychelsea
on how her time in jail prepared her for COVID isolation, why she thinks Obama commuted her sentence, the root cause of 1/6 and America's political legitimacy crisis, & much much more.
Part one of a 2 parter.
“The other thing I will say to you, Briahna, that I’ve never shared too is that Joe called me twice and Bernie never called me.. but despite Joe calling me twice I still did not endorse bc I wanted this process to play out.”
-
@AndrewYang
on not endorsing Bernie.
‼️NEW
@BadFaithPod
: Episode 120 - "Spoiled For Choice" (w/
@AndrewYang
)‼️
Yang talks his plan to launch a 3rd party, what went wrong with his NYC mayoral candidacy, his friendship w/ Dave Chappelle, & whether "human centered capitalism" is an oxymoron.
“The longer they’re in Congress the more they moderate. Like, they come in Cori Bush and they leave …” -
@blackleftaf
“Nancy Pelosi— Nanci Pelosi was literally the AOC of 1987.” -
@briebriejoy
‼️NEW:
@blackleftaf
on
@BadFaithPod
‼️
"When it comes to 'believe Black women' it's 'believe the most imperialist, status quo, liberal, kind of middle of the road Black woman,' right?...When you have this identity reduction discourse it actually has a deradicalizing function."
‼️New: The New Year Conceit‼️
On today's episode, Virgil talks Georgia elections, Brie vents on
#ForceTheVote
, & the pair explains why you're not getting $2000 a month.
Subscribe here:
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: The 42nd Street Why?‼️
We break down the NY mayoral race, including the Morales campaign staffer scandal, & try to figure out where the left should land now that its most promising candidates have been hoisted by their own petards.
"There is just as much skepticism for these liberal corporate outlets as there is for these conservative corporate outlets [on the left]...We have seem that same infrastructure weaponized against the candidates or brand of politics we prefer."
.
@Isikoff
: "When the NY Times fucks up or The Washington Post fucks up or Yahoo News fucks up, at least people know that we strive for something higher and better . . . "
Me: "Well. . . ."
On partisan media bias &
#Russiagate
w/
@mtaibbi
.
Watch here.
“Don’t you also think that these student loans or whatever are so intelligent from the standpoint of capitalistic reproduction because they prevent your politicization?”
- Slavoj Žižek.
#StudentDebt
#StudentLoans2021
“I’m so sad to say this, it goes against everything I believe, but maybe we need further catastrophes to awaken us.”
Slavoj Žižek on accelorationism, student debt peonage, Biden’s broken promises, and more. Watch a free clip now at
@BadFaithPod
YouTube.
"Trump is scary. Orange man bad...but you know what else is scary? Living in a racial caste system for the entirety of your existence in America...At what point are we going to be willing to say we're not going to [vote blue no matter who]?"
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
‼️
In this week's premium ep, we spoke to
@DougHenwood
,
@ChampagneSharks
, &
@ohJuliatweets
about the latest on the infrastructure bill, the parliamentarian mishigas, the cringe Obama/Ezra Klein interview & more.
Subscribe to listen:
"At the time, Ryan, the fact that you were driving that point home so hard, and really advocating for the idea that they had truly won something [in PayGo exemptions]...seemed like it was carrying water for these squad members."
I spoke with my former boss
@ryangrim
on this week's premium episode of
@BadFaithPod
about his role in the Force The Vote debate, confronting him on his PayGo take, his Jayapal interview, and accusations that he "carried water" for the squad.
#ftv
"I want to live in a country [where] we as a community of 340 million ppl can decide for ourselves what kind of society we want to live in...Right now 339M of us can decide one thing, but 5 ppl can say we think the Constitution means something different, & therefore it does."
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: Cancel [The Supreme] Court‼️
Biden punted the conversation abt court reform to a post-election commission. The commission happened last month, so we invited
@espinsegall
+ 2 professors who provided testimony abt how to reform the court
“People have good reason to fear authority, and of course Noam Chomsky knows this better than anyone else. And when you deal with this fear, you’ve got to do it respectfully…Using surveillance & using authoritarianism is both wrong morally & absolutely ineffectual.”
"I very much fear that those of us who are supporting the vaccination drive are shooting ourselves in the foot when we become anti anti-vaxxers. When we become prone to demonizing those who have become skeptical of vaccines."
Full video premiering NOW.
"We're in a shock doctrine moment, [but how do you handle] people on the left who say: okay yes, but the time isn't now because we don't have...the labor infrastructure, the ducks aren't in a row enough for us to actually take advantage of this moment?" -
@briebriejoy
"Even if you fail, the very act, the very effort has its own momentum-building capabilities...Don't put down when it's only 6 people gathering in somebody's kitchen starting about making a revolution, bc that's how every revolution began." -
@profwolff
"If you can continue confronting injustice with the understanding that you may be expelled from that class & maybe hurt economically then you can remain untainted. I know
@jimmy_dore
. I agree with much of what Jimmy says. I honestly don't care what kind of house he lives in."
"There can be accidental moments when ppl on the left make money...The danger of accumulating wealth is the danger of corruption. You begin to associate with that class of the economic elite, you begin to like it, & you begin to hedge." -
@ChrisLynnHedges
How will you learn about the seditious nature of
@BadFaithPod
hosts and panelists if you don’t subscribe to the bonus episodes?
From Episode 0 - “Kamala Time Capsule”
“All the things that you work for are all the things that are going to counter extremism in the future in a large part. Access for everybody to healthcare, access to mental health care, access to jobs. Those are all the things — bc happy people don’t become extremists.”
"There's this really illiberal desire to attribute people's political motivations to something essential to their being that makes them irredeemable...Trump voters are just Republicans...& to me, the bad thing about Trump wasn't that he was embarrassing."
"So the argument isn't that racism doesn't exist, but the reality is when you have Donald Trump getting larger and larger percentages of the non-white vote, you have to start to ask whether there are things other than bigotry that are attracting voters."
.
@BadFaithPod
takes on dating as a leftist.
"There is nothing worse than when I dude is so worked up abt his opinion...& then you listen to a podcast that week & you hear one of the hosts of the podcast say the same thing...he's just quoting something he heard another dude say."
‼️New
@BadFaithPod
: Debt on the Installment Plan w/
@astradisastra
‼️
I spoke to Astra Taylor of
@StrikeDebt
about the possibility of a Debt Strike, how to respond to Butigeig-esqe arguments against debt relief, & the philosophy of a debt jubilee.
“We have to ask ourselves: What is the point of this representation if they’re not going to actually do any anything?” -
@nickwestes
Listen or watch the full episode at
Watch a 20 min clip free on YouTube
This week, we talked about the right wing campaign against Critical Race Theory, and why "no one even knows what CRT is" is an insufficient response from the left.
On this week's
@BadFaithPod
, we debated
@IramiOF
CRT take: That parents rising up against CRT at PTO meetings help the left by making conservative racism plain.
Should we shame white Americans out of racism? Or lure them left with left policy? Both?
"There was a part of me during the campaign that was like: ppl want a Black Agenda? Let's just print up some flyers that just lists our entire platform & just write Black Agenda at the top of it. But all of us here know how that's going to be perceived."
"What can I do to insulate Bernie against [claims of class reductionism] that still allows him to pursue that universalist project?...Sometimes I feel like the left resists doing that easy thing that would [insulate us] when the accusations come flying."
On the latest episode, Bernie 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager
@AriRabinHavt
suggests that Chuck Schumer would've lost his Senate leadership position if he went to the mat over a $15 minimum wage.
What does that say about the Democratic party?
"He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, eradicate the IRS & welfare, abolish the minimum wage & unpaid family leave. He opposes public sector labor unions, disputes that second hand smoke can cause cancer, rejects climate change. He's a giant Trump supporter..."
The next Gov of CA?
‼️Ep 101- (Larry) Elder Abuse, w/ Josh Olson, Dave Anthony, & Edward Ongweso Jr‼️
In this week's very special California episode, we talk Prop 22 & the Gavin Newsom recall w/ Vice's
@bigblackjacobin
& my 2 favorite Cali guys,
@joshuarolson
&
@daveanthony
"Do I think those folks are the ones to bring us back from a pandemic right now?...They're the same ones that got us in this mess. The lady that was in De Blasio's administration from the get go is the one that's going to help us pick up the pieces? Are you serious right now!?"
‼️Art Paper‼️
On
@BadFaithPod
, I caught up with 2 NY mayoral candidates claiming to be TRUE progressives. In a RCV race, why not consider them?
I spoke to
@achangnyc
&
@PaperboyPrince
abt what they offer NYC before Tuesday's vote.
Subscribe to listen:
This is absolutely crushing for that whole "yard sign" faith. That whole "respect science" faith.
@thomasfrank_
on
#LabLeakTheory
, professional negligence, and more.
Watch the video premier at 5:00.
In today's ep of
@BadFaithPod
,
@virgiltexas
& I give our predictions for election night.
Also, I berate him for conscripting me into a joint Halloween costume he then bailed on, leaving me w/ this absurd blonde Afro wig.
Please email him about it.
"I do believe that at at that moment Bernie Sanders believed that at that moment he had exerted what he could, and that was the peak of the hill."
- Bernie 2020 deputy campaign manager
@AriRabinHavt
on why Bernie endorsed Biden so quickly
Listen to the full interview below.
Ro Khanna on why he doesn't think congress should ban billionaires, but he does think they should be subject to a
#WealthTax
.
Listen to the full interview here:
“I don’t know how the left became so boring and de-juiced! ... I wasn’t raised to be quiet when the mother-fuckers are that loud.” -
@marwilliamson
Listen to the full interview here:
"Too many ppl living w too much despair who shouldn't be living w despair in the richest country in the world. They had done everything right. This doesn't make sense. & I began to see these are not individual issues. These are the effects of bad public policy."
@marwilliamson
"Ultimately...tomorrow, 2 weeks from now, 5 minutes from now, they may just sell out...But just bc it's happened in the past doesn't mean it has to happen tomorrow."
WATCH
@JenBriney
&
@davidsirota
on the
#infrastructure
fracas now:
@BadFaithPod