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With mere weeks left in the Trump administration, the threat Covid-19 poses to public health, the economy, and NATSEC shows few signs of slowing. Joining @mehdirhasan to discuss this and more are:
@kavitapmd
@DeanObeidallah
@StephanieKelton
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.@MrJonCryer played Lenny Luthor in 1987's "Superman 4" -- a flop for which he's sorry, America -- but he's more than made up for it in his TV current role as Lenny's more famous uncle, Lex Luthor, on "Supergirl." Plus, he says: "Playing a supervillain is the BEST!"
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.@MrJonCryer takes online political flack from the likes of Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz in stride. "I get why people feel resentful toward celebrities who are getting into politics," he says. "That being said, we're also Americans." (He adds: "Matt Gaetz is a clown.")
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.@RevDrBarber blasts white evangelicals' obsession with abortion and homosexuality over Jesus' Gospel lessons on helping the least among us: "If we were in the ancient world, we would have had a Nicaean council by now and declared white evangelicalism a form of heresy."
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"Corona time is not a game, but billionaires won it, anyway," says @AnandWrites, adding that "the billionaires winning" and "you and your family suffering" are very much related: "You are down there because they are standing on your back."
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Gross inequality in America can be solved, but not by billionaire philanthropy, @AnandWrites says. "They want to tell you... going to the moon's gonna do it," he laughs, adding: "I have no problem with Elon Musk doing a one-way trip to some other place."
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While you were waiting to hear whether you'd get another… $2,000? Or $600? Or $300? from Uncle Sam, American billionaires saw their wealth grow by one *trillion* dollars since March. @mehdirhasan surveys the year in (extreme) wealth inequality:
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Presidential pardon power is meant to correct injustices, says the ACLU’s @HinaShamsi, but in his repeated grants of clemency for war criminals and mercenaries, Donald Trump “is using his power and discretion not to correct injustice but in ways that perpetuate it.”
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"Even till the very end, he never ceases to disgust, to horrify, to shock us." @mehdirhasan explains in somber detail why Donald Trump's surprise holiday pardons of four Blackwater mercenaries for an Iraqi tragedy "may be among the most revolting acts of a revolting presidency."
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After his loss to AOC, former Rep. Joe Crowley works at Squire Patton Boggs, "one of the most respected law firms in the world." Isn't it swampy to consult for a top D.C. lobbyist? "I don't thoroughly see what that issue has to do with gainful employment after leaving Congress."
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“There are very few people who can stand in her shoes,” ex-Rep. @JoeCrowleyNY says of Nancy Pelosi, calling her “one of the most talented political beings I’ve ever met.” But asked if she should remain as House speaker, he says, “I'm at the outside looking in at this point.”
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The Covid relief bill had a lot of "missed opportunities," says @JoeCrowleyNY, and he places the blame squarely on Senate Republicans for not giving more: "Mitch McConnell is actually Scrooge in person: giving coal for Christmas, quite frankly, at the holidays."
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.@ninaturner says many factors led to Bernie Sanders losing the 2020 nomination, but “I will tell you what we did win: We won the argument.” She adds voters across the spectrum are more interested in progressive policies now, and “we have to continue to push and push hard.”
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.@ninaturner won't engage Democratic critics who suggest without evidence that she didn't vote Clinton in 2016: "If they're looking for somebody who's just gonna go along to get along, I'm not their person. I can work with anybody who's willing to work on behalf of the people."
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“Gerald Ford famously rolled up his sleeve on camera to be vaccinated for swine flu in 1976,” says science journalist @laurie_garrett, noting the trend of heads of state taking vaccinations publicly to instill U.S. confidence: “It’s been a steady tradition ever since.”
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"I think that what happens in Georgia is very, very important," says @AnikaNoniRose, adding that Warnock and Ossoff "are the people we need in the Senate so that change can be made...The GOP agenda is not the agenda of the humane. It is an agenda that is old and tired and rank."
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"It's not just his own family members whose alleged crimes he wants to cover up": Donald Trump is reportedly seeking immunity from lawsuits for Saudi Crown Prince MBS, who ordered the murder of a Washington Post journalist. @mehdirhasan has some blistering thoughts on that.
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“How angry are you? I’m pretty angry. And I’m betting you are, too.” @mehdirhasan breaks down the Covid relief bill, from the $600 check you’ll get... to the 100% write-off for business executives’ “three-martini lunches.”
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Valerie Hawthorne of @ntfb says many of the needy in this crisis don't fit people's view of poverty. She relates a story about a man who brought empty bags from a local grocery to fill, "because he just could not let his family know that he had to ask for help."
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"The images you see of folks lining up for hours to receive food, that's our daily reality," Valerie Hawthorne of @ntfb says. "What we're seeing on the ground is absolutely heartbreaking. We are so glad to be there to serve them, but we take no joy in this."
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