The Week Every Guardrail Fell: Massie, AIPAC, the Slush Fund, Cuba, and Spencer Freaking Pratt
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The episode discusses the high cost of congressional seats, political maneuvering involving AIPAC, and recent events related to Cuba and the January 6th insurrection.
Thirty-four million dollars. That's what it costs to buy a congressional seat in America. Not rent. Buy. Outright. Like a foreclosure auction, except the property is a democracy and the bidders live in a different country. This week, Thomas Massie, a seven-term Republican who voted with Trump 94% of the time, was primaried out of Congress in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history. His crime? Pushing the Epstein files. Fighting the war in Iran. Introducing a bill to make AIPAC register as a foreign agent. His replacement is a man with no public platform, no public birthday, and $34 million in outside money from pro-Israel lobbying groups and three billionaires who have never been to Kentucky. Meanwhile: The DOJ created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that could pay out January 6th defendants, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers, and gave Trump permanent IRS audit immunity as a bonus. Two Capitol Police officers are suing to shut it down. The Trump administration indicted 94-year-old Raul Castro on Cuban Independence Day at Miami's Freedom Tower, directly next to the future Trump Library, in the middle of an oil blockade that has left Cuba without…
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Host: We Saw the Devil
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Organizations: AIPAC, DOJ, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers
Places: Kentucky, Cuba
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