Any Democrat worth backing in 2024?
K&S, In your opinion; is there any Democrat able to connect the various factions of the Party? Anyone with grassroots energy and charisma who is a progressive that can satisfy Corporate Dems enough for, if not their support, at least not their attacks? Ro Khanna? Katie Porter? Barbara Lee? A Rosa Delauro & Jamie Raskin Hybrid? Someone who can at least get some energy going within the party that people can be proud to have their bumper sticker? #FeeltheBern
College football re-alignment
Krystal/Saagar - In the college football word, there was a pretty massive shake up this week with USC/UCLA Leaving the PAC 12 to go to the Big 10. This was a move that was in reaction to OU and Texas leaving the Big 12 to go to the SEC. The decision for those schools to join a different conference, that make no geographical sense was of course to make more money per year with upcoming TV network deals. That means if you are any of those other schools in that conference your pretty much screwed. The wealth disparity from the upcoming college football TV deals will never be greater. And that will certainly have an economical impact on not only the colleges, but the towns and small business that won’t profit as much because the big draws aren’t coming to town anymore. My question is do you see any sort of relation/analogy to this and what’s happening with our current economic climate?
my lord that was embarrassing to watch
I recently saw a post from Saagar on r/facepalm with the hilarious twitter post about Europe I just watched you try to defend. They had done the good deed of blocking out your name but of course I recognized your profile pic. I thought, surely that cant actually be what he was saying, it must have been satire where he was actually talking about the U.S. but pretending it was Europe. Kind of like that last scene in The Dictator where he's really talking about the U.S. autocracy but pretending he's talking about a middle eastern country. Then, ugh, I come on here and see its not only true but you're actually doubling down! Dude! Over the last few months I've been watching less and less breaking points mostly because I'm interested in the Russia/Ukraine conflict and the reporting is much better through other independent outlets but watching this cringey exchange might actually have been a bridge too far. Funny, because its probably the most trivial. I've witnessed your overt racism towards anything Chinese or Russian and your misguided ideas of American exceptionalism on full display in the past. I get it, you're American, racism is kinda your thing, but this was ridiculous! I realized all at once I've been listening to political analysis from a fucking child! What an immature display. In that one segment you finally lost me. After following you guys for...I want to say maybe 5 years, I now realize I cant rationalize your racism or just general lack of worldly view point anymore. Its actually you. You're so stuck in that hilariously delusional "Murica is the greatest country in the world" that you've forgotten it's a lie. So my question is...Is there any chance of getting a show with Krystal and maybe someone like, oh I don't know, Max Blumenthal or Vanessa Beely or Abby Martin, Aaron Mate, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Ben Swann, or Ben Norton would be great. Anyone else who's actually a serious journalist instead of having Captain Americas discarded sidekick. I don't think Staagar spangled blabber should be cancelled on anything. He can go run his own show with an equally uninformed sidekick of his own. I'll keep my subscription til it runs out but I wont be renewing. Hopefully we get to see Krystal spread her wings and achieve her full protentional in the future if she can shed the cling on holding the show back.
ESG vs. SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals / Agenda)
Hi Krystal and Saagar, Your views on ESG are well known, but I would be interested to hear your views on an adjacent topic: sustainable development and the SDG effort to blend environmental, human rights, and trade policy. Do you distingish between 'ESG,' pushed by finance, and 'SDG,' the result of a 2015 GA Resolution? To what extent do SDGs suffer from the same lip-service and corporate manipulation? Do you think the sustainable development agenda can be effective, where ESG is not? And what to make of US apathy towards trade policy in developing nations as power projection, vs EU SDG enthusiasm, vs Chinese economic power projection often at the expense of SDGs? Great show--been with you since The Hill-- Andrew