Nick Hauselman is busy hosting people for Memorial Day, so a beleaguered and sick Jared Yates Sexton holds down the fort. He discusses the GOP House passing Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" and the inherent damage it will do, the DC shooting, the ongoing battle between the administration and Harvard, and the absolute debacle that is the Democratic Party.
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I've been traveling, and I am here with, I don't know, a cold, a flu, something new.
I don't have a clue.
But Nick Halseman is celebrating Memorial Day with barbecue, and so I'm here holding down the fort.
And I wanted to get on here and talk about a couple of the things that have been going on over the past few days and get my thoughts down on them.
So yeah, flying solo today, so apologies for no intro music.
I know some people really enjoy that, and you always get a bootleg version of things when I'm at the controls, because I don't know where the music is.
I think I could probably figure out how to play it.
I mean, I'm able to do that with my stuff over on Dispatches from a Collapsing State.
But, yeah, I don't have that file.
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We start, unfortunately, with the House of Representatives passing in a 215 to 214 vote the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which is so repulsive not just in its contents, but also much like Doge being an oligarchical coup tool to dismantle the government and give control over to the oligarchs.
It's disgusting that these things are happening under such absolutely asinine titles.
And just even saying it out loud, it really sickens me.
I really don't know how else to put it for it to be more accurate.
I want to go through this bill and talk about some of the notable things
So I want to go through these major, major parts one by one and talk about why this is such a destructive bill that is working its way through Congress currently.
The first thing that stands out with this is...
a giant tax cut, including cutting the estate tax for their rich benefactors.
There's a weird wrinkle in all of this, too, in terms of how they're moving money around trying to trying to
There has been this bizarre invention of a $1,000, supposedly $1,000 account, which has the moniker of a MAGA account for every newborn that will supposedly get $1,000 in an account that will then be put into the stock market, which is a way of trying to make people feel like they're getting something that they're not.
To win a propaganda battle and also to go ahead and inject a bunch of money into the stock market in order to try and help their wealthy cronies as the stock market takes hit after hit after hit with the demolition and demolishing of the global system of trade.
With that, of course, it wouldn't be enough to simply give a tax cut to the wealthy.
We are also seeing a slashing of Medicaid, strengthening the work requirements to 80 hours per month, which, for those keeping track at home, is basically equivalent to what most gig workers in this economy are kept at.
And meanwhile, they have to go out and get their other jobs to supplement that, which undoubtedly is what's going to happen to people on Medicaid.
What goes along with that is also a bunch of extra paperwork, which...
And while that's happening, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and all of his little flying monkey cronies are going all over TV explaining that the cutting of Medicaid, it's not really cutting, it's actually getting a bunch of deadbeats off of the dole.
Which is going to play really well with not just Republican voters, but with a lot of Americans who have this sort of like internalized class antagonism against a bunch of people that they think are getting free things, even while they're enjoying free things, but never mind all those truths.
But this is more or less one of the first major blows to Medicaid.
And Medicare and Social Security that's coming.
Not to mention all of the tinkering around by Doge, people getting thrown off of it, stories that we've heard, stories that we haven't heard, creating systems where people can't get help.
It is about the gradual, total eradication of the benchmark social programs of the 20th century, which has been the agenda and the plan and the goal all along.
It just so happens they're going for it now.
Because of the nature of this bill, its size, there are a lot of these attacks that have been planned for a while that are stuffed in there, like an overstuffed, diseased burrito.
We're going to see an increase of taxes on universities, which I'll talk more later about this attack on higher education, and those taxes are going to lead to
And meanwhile, we're going to see other educational cuts, including cuts to student loans, which is going to, once more, like tariffs, put the cost on the consumer, or as I should say, students.
We're also seeing the slashing of Obamacare.
Along with a mountain of paperwork that comes along with it, and estimates are that millions of Americans are going to lose their health insurance because of this.
We've seen the absolute demolition of clean energy, including credits and investment, which, not totally a surprise, but here we are.
We also come around to the slashing of food stamps, along with new work requirements there, which will result in more Americans going hungry, including children, who are going to be the main people who suffer from this.
Along with it, nonprofits are going to be able to be designated as terrorist-supporting organizations.
Which will lead to a lot more political attacks and also the undermining of a lot of these non-profits that are out there working with people and trying to help people through the consequences of a lot of these actions.
Courts are going to have a lot of their support taken away, especially those that are looking to hold the administration in contempt and stand in their way.
You're also going to see, for all this talk of this being fiscal responsibility or whatever bullshit they're telling you, you're going to see $150 billion given to the military, especially in order to create what they're calling the Golden Dome System, which is modeled after the Iron Dome System in Israel, which is currently being shredded by Houthis, who somehow or another have figured out how to get through it.
So you have to assume that America's enemies will...
So this is just Star Wars 2.0.
And if you don't know about that, just Google Reagan and Star Wars and see exactly what's going to happen with all of this.
Oh, and by the way, immigration and deportation is going to get a cool $175 billion to do what they're doing, which includes disappearing people and sending them to dystopian prisons around the world.
Incredible, by the way.
That they gave immigration more money than they did the military.
I want both of them to have their funds completely taken away, but I think it's telling and ironic that that's the case.
And finally, within this bill, something that has been kicked around for a while is a 10-year ban on states regulating artificial intelligence.
And this is, again, yet another gift to the Tech Oligarchical class.
It is a big Thank you for giving me the presidency.
Thank you for your money.
Yes, things might be a little weird right now with capitalism in the market, but I've got your back and look what I can give you, which is absolutely unrestrained ability to do whatever you want to do with artificial intelligence.
And that is everything that they want.
That's their last big product.
And so now they get a decade to not have anything regulated.
And for the matter, I don't think that they would have had that regulation anyway, because so many of our leaders on both sides of the aisle are so deep in the pocket of the tech oligarchical class and all of their industries that they probably wouldn't have had to have dealt with it in the first place.
But here it is, a big gift-wrapped We don't know what's going to happen with this bill.
It's going to go to the Senate.
Surely they're going to have their own carve-outs, their own problems.
But what we see here from the House Republican Party, which held this bill up because they wanted the cuts to go deeper and the pain to go deeper, is that the House GOP is an expression of the pure, unvarnished cruelty that is at the heart of the Republican Party and what their project is doing.
I would also be remiss if I didn't point out that this rash of deaths is The Democratic Party has continued to keep in place members that are gaining in age and have now been passing away, including Jerry Connolly, who was chosen for leadership over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
And those three deaths have affected the House Democrats' ability.
To put up a resistance if they're willing to do that in the first place.
What we have on display, period, is exactly where this country is going.
The Republican Party is an expression of the austerity and the brutality and the oppression that is necessary under the next turn of neoliberal capitalism.
It isn't just slashing things.
It's not just handing out big, giant, wet kisses to the wealth and oligarchical classes.
It is fundamentally changing the United States of America to become a crueler, more exploitative, awful place to live for anybody who is not a member of the wealth and oligarchical classes.
That's what this big, beautiful bill is, and again, it makes me sick to say that out loud.
I cannot believe that they named this cretinous thing with that moniker.
And I hope it comes under considerable opposition within the Republican Senate.
I doubt that it will.
And this will more than likely go down as the first actual legislative quote-unquote achievement.
After all of these executive orders, after all of the constitutional crimes, after all of the corruption, all of the bribery, all of these attacks on political enemies and blackmail of institutions, this will likely be the first bill that ends up on his desk, passed by the Republicans, which shows how they are in lockstep with Donald Trump.
Not just as members of this cult of personality and this authoritarian cult, but in that they are dedicated as a political project to, again, making life in America more brutal, more exploitative, and more awful for anybody besides the people who sign the checks for the Republican Party to continue as a political organ for the wealth and oligarchical classes.
Just looking at this list, it's harrowing.
And, you know, with all of these executive orders and all these actions that the Trump administration has carried out and the way the Republican Party has continued to worship him as a false idol, I just want people to really take a look at it, breathe it in, this acrid awfulness, and recognize that Trump is not an aberration.
He is simply part of the evolution of what this system is and where it is going.
The programs that people have depended on, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, help with student loans, every single thing that hasn't even made life in America And
what you and I and everyone we know, what we've been living under, has been unbearable.
It's been just terrible.
And the things that even lessened the blow of that a little bit, that even made it possible to exist in this country without feeling the full force of neoliberal austerity and oppression and exploitation—
And they're being done away in favor of increasing the authoritarian project.
We also have to talk about something awful that happened on Wednesday night.
A 31-year-old declared socialist in Washington, D.C., waited and paced outside of an event and shot two workers from the Israeli embassy, Yaron Lichensky and Sarah Milligran.
When he was apprehended, And he made no attempt to escape.
He allegedly shouted, free, free Palestine.
And allegedly, in other comments made afterwards, said that this was about what was going on in Gaza.
This was an immediate flashpoint in American culture because of the political underpinnings of it, the motivation, and the grisliness of the crime.
It reminded me a lot of the histories and stories that I've read about.
At the turn of the 20th century and into the 20th century, there were a lot of radicals in the country.
There were a rash for a while of anarchists and some socialists who would murder people, who would set off bombs, those types of things.
And in these heightened moments, and this is one of the reasons why I've been talking with Nick about this environment and how it sort of cultivates these moments of violence and chaos.
And it happens all the time.
And when tensions start to rise and when there are things happening and popping off and when it seems like threats are growing and things are becoming much, much more tenuous,
In this case, this double murder, which is a tragedy, it appears to have been a political action by someone who is not Palestinian, by all accounts, who felt like they had to do something about what was going on in Gaza.
And unfortunately, they decided what they needed to do was to take the lives of two people as a political actor.
Which is incredibly tragic.
Deserves to be condemned.
And there's also another factor that goes along with this because we have to talk about the larger context.
We have to talk about the larger political and cultural environment.
There is also a feeling that what is happening in Gaza right now, which has been an ongoing atrocity and genocide, and we've now heard that...
that not only does the Trump administration want to totally remove the Palestinians from the area, but Israel has been very vocal about how much they want to do that as people have been being starved, as people have been ethnically cleansed.
We're now seeing the restriction of food and supplies to the Palestinians to the point where There is essentially a starving out, a murder of people through starvation.
And now even rations and food and supplies are being used as bait to capture and possibly kill people.
It appears that what we've been watching now these past couple of years, which has been a completely indefensible crime.
Against humanity as it just escalates and goes into the next stage of this barbarism.
So with that and with these crimes, you have also seen in Gaza the intentional targeting and assassination of civilians, of children, of public servants.
And there are some people who, in the midst of that, might say that the terms of engagement have changed.
And when that happens, you start to see attacks like this happen wherever there are opportunities, which sucks, and it's awful, and innocent bystanders should not be killed.
Period.
And there is this cyclical effect to it.
And we've seen this happen over and over again, not just with shootings, but with acts of terrorism, and then acts of war that go back and forth and back and forth.
And it sets off these larger issues, and now looking at what happened in Washington, D.C., and we have to be able to do a couple of things at once.
We have to be able to grieve a couple of people who have been killed.
We have to sit in grief with those people's loved ones, the people who will no longer get to see them or talk to them or see them live their lives.
And we also have to take a look at this larger context and the loss of innocent life.
And you have to look at this culture, this cyclical culture of violence.
And it's not necessarily deep political analysis to say that the killing of innocent people has to stop, but it is, regardless, the truth of the matter.
Because that type of brutality begets brutality begets brutality, and it goes on and on and on.
And these are the hard things.
That we need to talk about as we resist authoritarianism.
We need to be able to be vulnerable and say we're all stuck in the middle of something really awful that continues to reverberate back and forth between each other and these acts of violence.
And we have to be able to talk about that.
Because all the while, as this happens, authoritarians take advantage of these tragedies.
They take advantage of these moments of crisis.
And I was really stunned by how quiet I have felt like the Trump administration has been about this, because it fits within their larger sort of operating scheme.
The Trump administration and the far right have used the label of anti-Semitism.
To go after people, including people expressing their First Amendment rights, people who are protesting, people that they see as easy targets, people that they can disappear, people that they can attack and take advantage of, particularly in how the Gaza situation has created a schism within the world of the liberal, progressive, leftist spheres.
And they've used that because they recognize that that is an opportunity.
And meanwhile, and Nick and I just talked about this on The Weekender when we did the mailbag about how they've been ramping up these attacks on socialists and communists and leftists.
And so there is a feeling, and you're starting to see some attention, and we talked about this I think a couple of weeks ago with how the streamer Hassan Piker got detained at Chicago O 'Hare.
We've started to see within Republican circles and also within some liberal circles that they've started pointing to someone like Piker in order to try and deplatform him or to take away any sort of respect for him or whatever it is.
I have a feeling that the lack of intense focus on this has been caused not just by what's going on With the quote-unquote big beautiful bill.
Also what's going on with Ukraine in which Russia is ramping up its aggression.
It's funny how all these things ramp up all at once.
But I also think that there is a lot of work that is being done right now to figure out how to circumvent pesky things like the First Amendment, particularly when it comes to targeting political enemies.
And I don't know what form that's going to take, but I have a wild feeling that that's going to begin to ramp up all in and of itself and that they are going to take advantage of a tragedy like this because it's too ripe for them.
That's how they work.
They see these moments and they see the opportunities to cleave that schism that I was just talking about between liberals, progressives, and leftists.
And the way that authoritarians work as they concentrate power is that they are continually looking for people to attack who seem vulnerable, who seem like that they could go ahead and take a little bite out of them or a big bite out of them, and people won't fight against it.
And they'll say, you know what, they had it coming.
And we've seen this happen.
I had mentioned the early era.
Of anarchists or socialists who engaged in these domestic attacks or they engaged in acts of assassination and political violence.
And almost every time when that happened, the state, also engaging in authoritarian actions, began to go after the left and began to get rid of people that they considered quote-unquote undesirable.
So I'm talking about this story.
Not just because it's noteworthy and not just because it's tragic, but I'm also talking about it because of a larger conversation that I've been trying to have with you about how we have to change the way that we see things.
We have to become a little bit more malleable in terms of how we engage in these types of things.
Yes, this person...
They have not had their day in court, but it didn't seem like they were very much hiding what they did.
But if the alleged perpetrator of this crime is singled out as a larger projection of what is going on with the left, with socialists, with progressives, It could very well work in the way that it has always worked in the past, which is for them to say, look at this criminal, look at this dangerous element.
They are a larger symbol of what is brewing over here.
We have to take care of this problem.
And this has been a hallmark of right-wing authoritarianism always.
They wait for something like this to happen, and they'll create it if they have to.
But they wait for something like this to happen, and then they focus their intensity on the group that this person represents in the larger consciousness.
We have to learn to not let that happen.
We have to learn to be able to say, this is a tragic event that shouldn't have happened, and yet this other targeting and this other focusing on oppressing a certain group That is also a tragedy that shouldn't happen.
We have to become more limber.
We have to become more malleable in how we address these things and how we operate within them.
Because what the right-wing authoritarians take advantage of are rigid, socially created feelings about, yes, you can do this to this group, you can do this to this group, you can't do it to this group, but you can do it to that group.
And in this case, This has all of the hallmarks of a situation that would be taken advantage of by a right-wing authoritarian.
So I feel it coming.
And we've already seen both the Democrats and the Republicans starting to rally around this idea of coming together in a bipartisan fashion to go after what they call antisemitism, which is literally just free speech, protected opposition.
To atrocities that are happening that we can all see and that have been enabled and emboldened by the United States of America.
So I do think that this will be taken advantage of in some way, shape, or form.
I don't know what that shape or form is.
But I also know because the environment that we're in is very, very politically charged and very, very emotionally charged, this is probably not going to be the last piece of violence that we see.
We're not going to just see it in the form of a random shooting in Washington, D.C. We're also going to see it in pushbacks against ICE and against the administration, against law enforcement, as these sort of skirmishes become more and more expected.
So we have to be careful as ourselves, and we have to be careful about whether or not we let those authoritarian whispers get into our head.
That we need to trade freedom for, quote-unquote, security.
Because when we do that, we lose both.
And in this case, it has literally all the hallmarks of all of these things that we've seen before.
And we should expect it to come.
We should expect, at any given moment, for something along these lines to be capitalized on by right-wing authoritarians who do not give a shit about anti-Semitism, for the record.
What they give a shit about is power and control.
And so they'll wear whatever clothes they have to wear.
They'll say whatever they have to say.
It does not matter.
What matters is whether or not they're able to amass more power and enact more control.
Speaking of power and control, I also want to talk about the decision over the past week that the Trump administration laid down that banned Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
And this battle back and forth between the Trump administration and Harvard is so symbolic of what's going on around the country with authoritarian intimidation and blackmail.
In this case, Harvard has over 6,000 foreign students, undergrad, graduate, you name it.
And this would be an absolutely devastating blow to Harvard.
You also have an ongoing threat now from the Trump administration that they could take over $3 billion with federal funding to Harvard and start to move it around to trade schools, community colleges, you name it.
And in a way, I'm not shedding a lot of tears about the idea of moving that funding around.
In this case, it is a piece of class warfare.
It's throwing red meat to the base and saying, hey, a lot of your kids are going to go to trade schools or community colleges.
And those places, to be honest, could use the help.
Harvard is doing incredibly well when it comes to their endowment.
They have a lot of projects ongoing that this would hurt, and I wish that that wouldn't be the case.
But in this matter, you look at that and you say, okay.
Not great because of the reason they're doing it, but also the results might not be the absolute worst.
But when you look at the enrollment of foreign students, I don't feel bad for Harvard.
I feel bad for the students.
That's 6,000 or more people who don't know where they're going to be when the next semester comes around.
It also puts in danger their status in the United States of America.
It is literally...
An authoritarian battle with an institution that, again, has thousands of people, and if you take that out to their family and their loved ones, God knows how many people are being affected by this, who are caught in the middle of this giant battle.
I think it's also telling that the Trump administration has picked Harvard, which is considered the flagship institution of the United States of America, to basically show...
It doesn't matter who you are.
But it is also an act of self-destruction.
Because Harvard is considered the flagship institution of the United States of America, sorry to all of the other Ivy League schools, it is an incredible act of self-destruction and self-immolation.
But it also shows that this administration doesn't care.
They don't care if they do irreparable harm to the United States of America.
That isn't even on their top ten list of things that they care about.
What they care about is fealty.
What they care about is discipline.
They're more than happy to destroy the flagship institution of the United States of America which produces scores of leaders and innovators, what you would call the class of elites.
They're more than fine hurting those people, even if it hurts the country at large.
Because what actually matters is power and control.
And Harvard, because they have pushed back, and again, I'm not really in the business of handing out praises of Harvard for a variety of reasons, including the fact that they produce a vast majority of the elites in this country who have created the systems that we are under, including capitalism and neoliberalism and neoliberal globalism and this austerity environment and you name it.
Thank you.
And they're more than willing to burn everything down in order to get it.
I want to remind people who listen to this podcast, if you're a student, if you're a staff member, if you're a faculty member, if you're at a university, if you have a job at a university, it's not just Harvard, it's not just Columbia, it's going to be everybody.
Take a look at this thing.
See it for what it is.
Talk to your colleagues.
And don't just talk to the colleagues who are at your level.
If you're tenured, talk to the people who are adjunct.
Talk to staff members.
Talk to students.
You need to get together in an act of solidarity.
Because this doesn't end with Harvard.
This starts with Harvard.
Finally, I want to talk about the Democratic Party today.
It feels like this is a reoccurring segment.
We go through what the Trump administration is doing and how rising authoritarianism is taking shape.
And then we unfortunately have to turn our eye to the Democratic Party, which should be the resistance party, and instead, they aren't.
First off, John Fetterman, fresh off of the New York Magazine profile that talked about his mental health struggles.
How his family is afraid of him, how his staff is afraid of him, how he's been in dereliction of his duties, and how he's not well.
He has now said to the New York Times that he was quote-unquote bullied into going back to his job and showing up for what he calls quote-unquote worthless votes.
That people have been weaponizing the fact that he's talked about his mental health struggles in order to go after him.
And attack him and try and take him out of power.
This is really disgusting stuff.
And I just want to reiterate in the middle of this that John Fetterman should not be the senator from Pennsylvania.
He has shown himself to be incapable of doing that job and not just incapable, unwilling.
He doesn't want this job.
He doesn't want to show up for the votes.
In the middle of an authoritarian takeover, not only is he okay with a lot of this, and not only has he capitulated and collaborated with these people, he takes it so unseriously that he sees showing up and doing his job as quote-unquote worthless.
And the fact that the Democratic Party continues to support him, to continue to rally around him, even as those closest to him, including former staff members, I want to remind you,
going back to the original segment of this show, of how many Democratic representatives have died, who have kept hold of power, who have continued running for their seats, not to mention how many Democratic politicians at this point have been taken advantage of.
As they have increased in age, and as they have had their mental acuity fall apart, how many of these people have been put in this position, and how many situations like this have arisen?
Because the Democratic Party doesn't want to rock the boat in any way, shape, or form, and you are the people who suffer.
I'm angry with John Fetterman.
I hate the way that he is showing up, but I also don't think he's well.
It's almost like I can't even be mad at a person who isn't well.
I'm mad and angry at the Democratic Party for continuing to enable this, to continue insisting upon this.
You can't fight this stuff if you're behaving like this.
If even the most obvious thing that you should do is clouded by fear and worry that you're going to lose power or influence at some point.
And along those same lines, it also has come out that the Abundance book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, that they were invited to a recent Democratic retreat.
Because the Democratic Party, surprise, surprise, is going to rally around a platform that says that regulations are the problem.
And the only way to move forward, it's not to fight oligarchy.
My God, that's crazy.
It's to slash regulations, which is exactly what the wealth class wants them to do, and a large reason why they support this agenda.
And immediately after we start hearing about this, And hearing about this meeting, there's all these blind notes in all of these political newspapers and blog sites and you name it that are talking about a coming democratic civil war and talking about how the party has to exercise the quote-unquote left and the woke and that they're going to ruin them and they'll never win another election if they don't do that.
And of course they're going to rally around a neoliberal plan like deregulation.
Doesn't mean that there aren't some regulations that need to be reformed.
But this idea that we're going to have some sort of a mythical utopian future if we just start cutting regulations is insane.
And on top of that, nobody's going to vote for that.
The American people are desperate for a resistance party that says, hey, guess what?
This is fascism, it's self-destruction, and we're going to lead you into a future that is anti-fascist and is actually going to build a better and brighter future that people want.
Not corporations, not construction companies, not the wealth class.
And what are we seeing take shape?
It's what I've been afraid of now for years.
It's that the Democratic Party is going to reach a point of a stress test in which they are going to have to either start to fight the battles that the people want them to fight, or they're going to continue to spiral into neoliberal oblivion.
And all of the signs are there that they're choosing the latter.
That they're not going to change anything.
That anybody in the party who calls for something to be changed, We'll quickly be shown the exit or we'll be pushed into irrelevancy where they won't have any influence, they won't have any power, and they most definitely will not be any place in a speaking slot or in a place of attention where it will scare off the billionaire donors who want, ding, ding, ding, deregulation in a neoliberal democratic party.
I wish it was different.
But I'm not seeing any signs of it.
I'm seeing a few people, insurgents within the Democratic Party, who are actually reacting to what's going on.
But I am seeing the rank and file of the Democratic Party get in line and just take turns burying their head in the sand.
They're going to go down with this shit.
And they're going to go down with this shit because there's a ton of money and a ton of power in it for them.
And I wish it wasn't so.
But I would be lying if I said it wasn't.
Alright, that's going to do it for this edition of the McGreat Podcast.
Apologies for my voice.
I am real sick right now.
But I wanted to get this stuff on the record and I wanted to talk to you today.
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