2319 - The 50 Year Right Wing Plan To Corrupt Government & Finding The Center Of The Democratic Party w/ David Sirota

It's Hump Day! Sam speaks with David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, and host of its new investigative podcast Master Plan. First, Sam runs through updates on Harris’ economic plan, election polling, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, Gaza’s polio vaccination effort, Trump’s newest demand of Congressional Republicans, Trump corruption allegations, RFK’s ballot access fiasco, Tim Sheehy, student loan forgiveness, Russian offensives in Ukraine, labor action, and starvation in Sudan, before watching Conservative media attempt to pull a half-baked accent conspiracy about Kamala Harris out of their ass. David Sirota then joins, diving right into the recent reporting on his podcast tracing the blueprint for legalized corruption in the form of deregulated campaign finance law and gutted bribery statutes back to the Watergate scandal, a scheme funded by illegal corporate donations, and a memorandum response by one Lewis Powell to growing calls for campaign finance reform that would go on to define the American conservative movement for the next half-century. Expanding on this, Sirota walks through how the recommendations found in Powell’s memo would be implemented seamlessly over the next few decades, filling attempted congressional reforms with loopholes for corporate backs, and bringing about multiple successful Supreme Court cases (decided, in part, by the now Justice Powell) that would set the stage for the Citizen’s United decision’s unbridling of corporate spending on elections, before looking at the myriad ways (many obvious) in which this legalized corruption completely undermines democratic governance. After touching on the constant (and, at points, prevalent) backlash to growing corruption in US politics, David and Sam explore the normalization of this corruption to a point beyond complacency, but of a refusal to even call it out, dissecting the hold corporate money has on our elections and what that means for candidates seeking to reform the system, and diving deep into the central role the Supreme Court has played in advancing American conservative agenda as an acting super-legislature. Wrapping up, David briefly assesses Harris’ 90-day candidacy, the importance of simplifying your agenda when given such a short window of time, and the state of the Democratic Party in 2024. And in the Fun Half: Sam talks with Kimmy from Kentucky about JD Vance’s ongoing embarrassments, Jesse Watters unpacks the non-controversy of… Trump staff harassing employees of Arlington Cemetery, and the MR Team reflects on Mark Robinson’s all-American activities that preceded his moralist stances of today. Eric from Chicago explores an Aurora Colorado slumlord’s attempt to capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment in a PR campaign, Tim Pool breaks down over the “operative” allegations as he further immiserates himself in slander and libel accusations, and Jimmy Dore has a conspiracy theory about – get this – a far-left politician actually being a US intelligence asset. Randy from New Jersey on the “No Arena in Chinatown” effort in Philly, plus, your calls and IMs! 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