The Majority Report with Sam Seder Casual Friday! w/ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ryan Grim (Season 1, Episode 2,395)
Podcast Episode | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Casual Friday! w/ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ryan Grim (Season 1, Episode 2,395)

Podcast Episode | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

It's Casual Friday. Sam and Emma speak with Ryan Grim, reporter at and co-founder of Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points, to round up the week in news before the holidays. First, Sam and Emma take a look at the spending fight on ...See moreIt's Casual Friday. Sam and Emma speak with Ryan Grim, reporter at and co-founder of Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points, to round up the week in news before the holidays. First, Sam and Emma take a look at the spending fight on Capitol Hill after House Republicans failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open. They take a look at CNN's Kaitlan Collins trying to figure out how New York Rep. Mike Lawler can blame House Republicans' failure to pass a spending bill on...Democrats. Then, they're joined by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez as she gives her breakdown of what is happening in the spending fight on the ground on the Hill, and how Elon Musk essentially tanked all forward progress with his posts on Twitter. Heading into a broader discussion, AOC discusses the House Oversight Committee race for ranking member, how she is interpreting that in terms of progress, and she understands her motivations and advocacies as someone steeped in the process of mass movements while representing such an institutional body in Congress. She ends the conversation by framing losses (both in the Oversight Committee and in November) as ones that should not always be seen as fully definitional and declarative of a struggle being completely lost, and take what slight progress they represent as motivation and the impetus to continue to fight for what she, and we, believe in. Then, Ryan Grim joins the program to react to some of AOC's comments, as well as to discuss the fast track to oligarchy this country is on seeing that Elon Musk basically dictated a continuing resolution bill not pass in Congress. Sam, Emma, and Ryan discuss the trajectory they think the Musk/Trump relationship may take and what that would like (potentially catastrophic), and what kind of implications and knock-on effects shutting the government down for the rest of Trump's transition would have. They then discuss how the Democratic Party appears to be a ship without a rudder, the genuine shock that some rank-and-file members got at AOC's showing for the Oversight Committee ranking member floor vote, and the...concerning details that came out in the Wall Street Journal's bombshell reporting on President Biden's functionality during his entire presidency. See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Ryan Grim Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	No Pressure (2018)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	Knock Down the House (2019)
Sam Seder Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Who's the Caboose? (1997)
Emma Vigeland Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Young Turks (2005)