They got money for wars but can't feed the poor
About this episode
The episode discusses the disparity between funding for wars and social welfare, featuring an interview with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and commentary on recent political events.
This week, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave an exclusive interview for Meet the Press where he proved that he’s been watching Useful Idiots by reciting Aaron’s favorite lyric: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient,” Mamdani told Kristen Welker. “But they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor.” This quote comes on a day when the corporate Sunday shows were flooded with US politicians defending Trump’s disastrous war-of-choice on Iran. The UN’s Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Skeletor Senator Rick Scott, and even former Biden official (and IDF soldier) Amos Hochstein packed the Sunday shows to claim why this expensive war that’s splintering the global economy is so necessary, and why blowing up civilian infrastructure is not only “not a war crime,” but necessary. It’s this bipartisanship that helps us remember that we really do have a strong uniparty in the United States, all united in one goal: to make money off war instead of feeding the poor. And speaking of Zohran Mamdani, he met up this week with the king of bipartisan warmongering, Barack Obama: It’s a jam-packed episode, and…
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