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Dorothy Neustater 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦's avatar

That was a great episode, guys! Like a mini town hall! Hopefully you can have more congress and senate people on to ask the hard questions.

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Karen Lozow's avatar

Every Democrat needs to embrace the "Care Van " Idea! Help people by making their own lives better immediately. Be in the Community WAY more! Republicans have continued to poison the well against any kind of regulation,and against government that works for everyone.We're sick of that! We don't want the wealthy to take everything and harm or kill the public goods and democracy for even more money! Also Americans seriously need unions and some version of the GI Bill that can elevate all of us.We need concrete plans .

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Kathy Cotton's avatar

Find Out is the best podcast. Thank you! Terrific idea to add a 2nd session per week with an interview, and Pat Ryan brought the same authenticity you all display.

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Hannah's avatar

Dudes I NEED an answer!! At the very least I need some theories on that question he couldn't answer towards the end.

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Hannah's avatar

Like what voters need to be convinced they need the aid offered. Dems keep using the stick to condemn Republicans. We need to use the carrot and sell the carrot hard. Least that's my theory.

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Lacey Koopal's avatar

Another great podcast. Kris's comments on getting Americans to realize they deserve benefits was very powerful. There were many political/economical points made on why Trump won the election and needing to show Americans how dems would do it better, but you're missing the filter of white supremacy that clouds many from seeing facts. He didn't just win because people truly believed he would fix our economical situation and lower eggs, he won because he spoke to the long standing infection in this country.

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Ross's avatar

Alaska has an “oil dividend” that might be useful as a starting point for discussion — if we can convince voters that our greatest national resource is our people, which is the foundation for any and all corporate profit, they might be primed to recognize the value of universal programs.

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Melinda's avatar

Loved the discussion….great points. Haven’t heard one person mentioning the fact that the recent wars are what blew up the debt. It’s always the poor people blew up the debt. Fuck that! And both those wars happened under Republicans with the help of faked reasoning. Thank you guys!!

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Susan Jagoda's avatar

This was a great episode. I’d like to see a discussion with Simon Rosenberg. I just listened to his latest Hopium Chrioicles. I think there needs to be more discussion between the Dem Party is AFU and let’s fix the part of the Dem party that needs fixing.

More discussion between issues and the big picture.

https://open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc/p/fighting-trumps-agenda-of-sabotage?r=abm5w&utm_medium=ios

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PiscesInMotion by S. Zuidema's avatar

Every single person in our country should have national healthcare, free state college and trade school. We should have the same benefits Canada and other countries have.

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Einsatz Grouper's avatar

You guys are cringe and sound like homos. White men are not going to side with people who hate them, give it up.

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Hannah's avatar

Tuning in now but a bit behind. Enjoy your content and appreciate this

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Shelley Potter's avatar

Bush had an educational bill that offered teachers, social workers, and othe helper professions to forgive their student loan after 5 years in a high need area. Trump canceled them. This was devastating to those that were in the program and took a lower paying job in exchange for a student loan payoff.

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Shelley Potter's avatar

I didn't hear specific items that the Congressman wanted to change. He was very general. What are his specific goals?

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Scott S's avatar

It’s a repetitive thought …

It’s a hell of a lot easier to win debates when you have NO incentive to tell the truth. No one has really pressed the point of being honest. It needs to be!

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Ross's avatar

It’s not just a budgetary nightmare with inequity of massive proportions. Per the Campaign Legal Center, the bill also: 1) Restrict the Judicial Branch’s singular ability to enforce its rulings (via contempt), and 2) ban enforcement of AI regulation as it pertains to political campaigns and elections. (https://campaignlegal.org/update/these-hidden-provisions-budget-bill-undermine-our-democracy)

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Terri H.'s avatar

I watched the latest video of Jordan Klepper’s ‘Finger on the Pulse: Next Generation’. Between that and the footage from when y'all were at one of Kirk's “klan rallies”, I was literally horrified and nauseated at it. My god! We seriously need our own version of that. A sane, not racist, not hate filled, not toxic men version. Thanks for doing what you do to get thst version started. https://youtu.be/ePbMNq8m7Jw?si=mXlTxW7oOZ_Cnnlr

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MrsPlumb08's avatar

Thanks again guys - great job as usual. If you read the proposal for Biden's student loan forgiveness the first wave was for public service - teachers, firefighters, police and healthcare. 10yrs of consistent payments and paid more than original loan. 2nd wave for the general public was 20 yrs. Nothing about it was free and many were just consolidation.

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