America's Factory Reset with Adam Tooze and Sohrab Ahmari
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Feckle, feckles, fecklessness, fecklessful. Are people feckful? There's a feckless, but there's really nobody who is feckful. And maybe that's what the Democrats are looking for. Somebody feckful. You can find some feckfulness. And obviously, Senator Charles Schumer was the avatar through which we passed our frustrations, our angers, our sadness, our desperation. We passed it through him in attempt to raise his glasses from the lower part of his nose through telekinesis all the way up, all the way from here. I'm doing this right now. It's on a podcast, so you probably don't know. It's coming all the way. Here we go. We're urging, come on, come on, guys. Come on, you can do it. And get them to focus.
And I think we need to make clear what is being asked for here is not nihilism. It's not the kind of shut the government down. Fuck all this. Nobody cares because there's a great understanding. But they themselves spoke of this was the moment of leverage that they had been neutered to the point because they don't have the majority in the house, even though it's slim and they don't have the majority in the Senate. They don't, you know, but the, because the senators didn't have 60, the Democrats could have filibustered to maybe extract anything. But I think the frustration is a, you're not clear on the specifics of what they would extract if they could. And B, they just fucking didn't. And Don't make a big theatrical production of choosing fighters and we're going to do this. And, you know, I think they keep counting on this very strange notion that somehow in the House of Representatives, Massey will rule the day. Like, this is all theater. Even in the Senate when you got, I think, I don't know how many.
Democrats voted for the continuing resolution, but every single one that did is not up for reelection in 2026 or retiring, which says to me that it was a, they put on a play. They're all putting on a play. Oh, sure. These 10 people reject the CR. Well, actually, we don't really know if they reject it. We just know that those are the ones that have the political safety that they can step up and do that, that they can step up and accept the continuing resolution because it won't hurt them politically. So we don't even know what they actually think because they put on a play. And the Republicans do the same fucking thing, by the way. When they were going through the Senate confirmation hearings on Pete Hegseth, they put on a play.
Oh, there's three senators that have principled objections to this nomination. It just so happens- that it was the exact number of senators that could object where JD Vance could come in and cast the deciding vote. So understand what you're watching.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the podcast about?
0:01–4:26
2
Who are the guests and their perspectives?
4:26–7:16
3
Is the American economy undergoing a transformation?
7:16–10:42
4
What are the historical influences on current economic policy?
10:42–17:02
5
Can the US manufacturing sector be revitalized?
17:02–25:19
6
How does globalization affect American labor?
25:19–34:53
7
What are the contradictions in current economic strategies?
34:53–1:05:39
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