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Katie Halper & Matt Taibbi watch the Sunday morning shows so you don't have to and so we can bring you the best and worst moments on Monday Mourning.

*We did Idiots Live this week instead of the Four Food Groups. Check it out on youtube* “We're at the beginning of the fourth quarter.” This is what The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim predicts for the play unfolding in Washington: Will Biden get his bill passed? He analyzes the major players. The Dems. 48 of them want a bill that has free college and a whole bunch of other Sandersian provisions. This really confuses us after they spent the last two elections trying to bury Bernie and his ideas. Grim explains: '“Hugo Chavez had this funny quote, ‘I saw a revolution coming and it was either going to wipe me out or I was going to carry out a revolution. So I figured I'd rather carry out a revolution.’” Maybe the Dems realized they were falling behind, so they (conveniently) changed their principles. The Villains. Manchin and Sinema. Do they really oppose the bill or are they just cast as the foils for the Dems who don’t really want to pass their own bill? The Republicans. Or are the Villains serious? Could Sinema switch to the Republican party? Will Manchin really defy Biden’s angry tirade: “Joe, you're going to take my fucking bill down. You're going to destroy my fucking presidency.” We’re closing in on the end of the infrastructure and spending bill saga. Maybe we’ll finally get some answers (and get to talk about something else.) Plus, Ryan talks the two Useful Idiots unfairly stuck in prison, Assange and Donziger. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots.

See full episodes and interviews at http://usefulidiots.substack.com We're going live today! For the first time ever, the Four Food Groups will be consumed in real time. We really advise against missing it.

See the latest episode at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-americas-most?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= Kyrsten Sinema (cast as villain in the Dem's spending bill play) got ambushed in a bathroom by students who wanted answers for her voting record. Luckily for Sinema, who hid in a stall, she has Orrin Hatch's former communications manager to back her up. That's got to help her image, right?

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-americas-most?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= Josiah Zayner is the founder of Odin, a science company that wants to teach YOU genetic engineering (check it out, it's pretty cool https://www.the-odin.com/ ). Last year, Josiah and his team created a DNA Covid vaccine (cheaper and easier to produce than mRNA) and took it. It worked. Then, Youtube shut him down. They called him anti-vax. The guy who literally made and took a vaccine. But now Josiah doesn't have his Youtube account and nobody knows about the cheaper vaccine. Good news for Big Pharma at least, right?

See the latest episode at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-americas-most?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= Are Manchin and Sinema really tanking the bill on their own? Or is this all a beautifully performed piece of theatre? "Look how hard we tried to pass the spending bill," Biden will say. "And we would've gotten it too, if it weren't for those meddling moderates!" We're starting to think it's all an act, with Dems casting Manchin and Sinema as the dramatic foils.

Subscribe for full episodes at http://usefulidiots.substack.com From our live Monday Mourning episode, hear Meghan McCain divine the thoughts of Kyrsten Sinema about the $3.5 trillion spending bill. And see for yourself if it's a true fight or a fake show for the dems to tank their own bill. Plus, see Meghan McCain practice her new mind reading trick.

https://usefulidiots.substack.com/ Matt Taibbi & Katie Halper watch the Sunday Morning shows (so you don't have to) and then review them Monday morning for your enjoyment!

Click here for the extended interview with Josiah Zayner https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-americas-most?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= Josiah Zayner wants to teach you genetic engineering. For two reasons: 1. He thinks it’d be awesome. And 2: It would hurt Big Pharma. “Gene therapies can cure and treat diseases,” he explains. “We can engineer animals and plants to make fuels and food and crazy stuff. The applications are limitless. We just need people working on it. And the only reason people aren't is because there's that knowledge gap.” But the knowledge gap is something that can be fixed, right? All we have to do is educate people. And that’s the mission of Odin, Josiah’s company that helps you become a scientist without huge grants and a PhD. And if regular people learn how to make this stuff for themselves, we can stop relying on pharma companies. “The drug market is so messed up. These companies are only trying to make drugs that make money,” he laments. “We literally have a cure for a disease that is not being provided to people because drug companies think they can't get the price they deserve for it. How fucked up is that?” Josiah’s latest venture, which got him heavily censored on the internet, was engineering a Covid vaccine. “We found that those who had the vaccine were protected. And it was pretty crazy because I was like, wow, that's amazing data, right? Why isn't everybody jumping on this?” He and his team created a DNA (easier and cheaper than mRNA) vaccine and proved its effectiveness. This was in the summer of 2020. But it wasn’t the big drug companies’ vaccine. So they suppressed him. And only now, over a year later, are other countries finally starting to use it. About time, right? It’s one of our most interesting interviews with a curious experimenter who wants to teach us all to be scientists. It’s worth a listen. Plus, new Russiagate docs, Trump’s toad penis, and throwing shit at politicians. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-charles-jaco?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= Charles Jaco and a team of brave, hardworking journalists ventured into the Middle East during the first Gulf War to cover the violence for CNN. And now, conspiracy theories line the internet claiming it was faked. Here Mr. Jaco discuss how a conspiracy theory gets formed, and can stick around for 30 years.

Subscribe for full episodes at http://usefulidiots.substack.com From our live Monday Mourning episode, Matt and Katie dissect Texas Governor Greg Abbott's newest evil plan: arrest refugees for trespassing. On public land. Smh. It's the latest in "Texas one-ups its own awful laws." Fun new segment, right?

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-charles-jaco?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= ""In 30 years, the United States as a functioning democracy is not going to resemble anything we see right now, one way or the other, simply because you cannot sustain a viable country when you have a cult that doesn't value facts or truth and are heavily armed. There's going to be major bloodshed.” This sounds alarmingly similar to what Chris Hedges said last week: “I watched Yugoslavia divide until you had these completely polarized, antagonistic camps that were speaking to each other in the language of violence. And I know from covering war that it becomes a very short step. Once you begin to speak in the language of violence to actually carrying out violence and that's what's happening.” Uh oh.

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy "They don't want to win back audience trust, right? Look, their motive is to cater to a particular demographic by which they will make money." Chris Hedges on the dark turn journalism has taken from authentic reporting to egotistical careerism. And he's not optimistic about the future.

Katie and Matt watch the Sunday Morning shows (so you don't have to) and then review them Monday morning for your enjoyment!

Click here for the extended interview with Charles Jaco https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-charles-jaco?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= During the first Gulf War, there was a transformation to an era of constant new news. The face of this change was CNN reporter and Useful Idiots Hero Charles Jaco. Views went from checking the news once or twice a day to constantly staying plugged in, anchors got famous and the whole thing became a spectacle. Jaco’s response? “What the devil is going on?” Jaco, who’s the star of the weekly UI segment "Jaco of the Week,” discussed the negative impacts of unending news. “We should've put up slides that said, ‘Look, this is being brought live. The first draft of history is always wrong. Take this with a grain of salt and we'll try to sort this out.’” With the need to always have fresh news, time for fact checking went out the window. And since the early 90s, trust in media has plummeted. Jaco says that’s why. We also discuss the shift from focusing on in-the-field reporters to idolizing talking heads in the studio: “One of the things that really annoys me now is that you've got these platforms that can give you 24-hour news, but on the three major channels, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, it's degenerated into just talking heads rather than using the expertise of the reporters in the field. It's irritating as hell to those of us who did it for so long.” It’s a fun interview with our charming and funny UI hero. And check back on Monday for the extended interview where Charles discusses teabaggers, conspiracy theories, and the impending US civil war (sense a trend?) Plus, we find out just how much Dems and Republicans suck as Biden lets Haitian migrants get whipped and McConnell plans to let the government default. Ugh. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy “I watched Yugoslavia divide until you had these completely polarized, antagonistic camps that were speaking to each other in the language of violence. And I know from covering war that it becomes a very short step. Once you begin to speak in the language of violence to actually carrying out violence and that's what's happening.” Nobody expects violence in their own country. And then it happens. Chris Hedges has warned us.

See the rest of the episode at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy It's official. Alex Jones has not lost his crazy fastball. Watch this insane video of the InfoWars host taking Ivermectin and then exploding in screams about the vaccine. It's downright exhausting. But also really funny. It does leave us with one question though: Does Goblin Piss fight Covid better than the J&J vaccine?

See the full interview at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy "I'm vaccinated, but do you trust Pfizer and Moderna?" Here at Useful Idiots, we believe in the vaccine and regularly tell viewers they should get vaccinated too. We also have a big problem with Pfizer and Moderna. The companies controlling our immunity against Covid-19 are the same ones refusing to allow generics to let other countries get help. We're not for that. Here Chris Hedges' and our thoughts on the vaccine and the mandates.

See the full episode at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy There's a new internet feud between two media heavyweights! Coming in at 20 million followers is Nicki Minaj challenged by underdog Joy-Ann Reid with only 2 million followers. Blood has already been shed. We're making predictions. Whose side are you on?

Subscribe for more at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Matt & Katie watch the Sunday Morning shows (so you don't have to) and then review them Monday morning for your enjoyment!

Click here for the extended interview with Chris Hedges https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-the-next-civil?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= “The charade of statesmanship played out by George W. Bush and his enabler, Condoleezza Rice, as they wander the Middle East is a fitting end to seven years of misrule, stripped of power and transformed from monsters into buffoons. One half expects to see him stand up at the next president's inauguration and screech ‘I’m melting! I’m melting!’ as he sinks into a puddle of slime.” This was penned by friend-of-show and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges back in 2008. And at the time, it seemed to reflect the opinion of George W. Bush among Leftists and Liberals. But now, he’s back. Liberals who used to condemn him now love him! He hangs out with Obama, he gives speeches denouncing Trump, he paints! Now that’s a thoughtful and cultured war criminal with whom we’d like to grab a Sauvignon blanc. In addition to blasting the grotesque rehabilitation of Dubya, Hedges shares his experience of 9/11 which he witnessed in New York City where he happened to be for a meeting with his then-employer The New York Times. He recalls those who jumped from the buildings who were edited out because “that mass suicide just didn't fit the narrative that both the media and the ruling elites were propelling.” When we asked him if 9/11 surprised him after years of serving and reporting in the Middle East, watching US bombs fall on cities, he responded, “That is how we communicate with the rest of the world. Huge explosions and death above a city skyline. That's how we have communicated for decades. And the hijackers learned to communicate back to us in the language we taught them. So when I saw the devastation, it was familiar. That was of course lost on most of the public who drank deep from that very dark elixir of nationalism.” Plus, the new Useful Idiots Wigged Moose Party announces a plan to ride in an armored pangolin and shoot Covid pellets at the Pharma companies refusing to share the vaccine. Maybe you have to see it to get it. It’s all this, and more (including a #JacoOfTheWeek), on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And don’t forget to subscribe to hear the rest of the interview with Chris Hedges, which drops Monday.

Subscribe for more at http://usefulidiots.substack.com From our live Monday Mourning episode, we mock one of the biggest bullsh*t news cliches: US Intelligence tells us... Do they ever say who that is? Do they even know? When US intelligence tells us that the Mother of All Bombs killed 0 civilians, should we believe it?

Subscribe for more at http://usefulidiots.substack.com From this week's live Monday Mourning episode, we watch democrat Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer refuse to retire to let Biden pick a younger dem to replace him. But it makes sense. You wouldn't ask a chicken how to make chicken a la king, would you? Wait, what? Plus, we give Biden a report card and a warning: watch out, Kamala might try to tackle you.

Subscribe for more at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie & Matt watch the Sunday Morning shows (so you don't have to) and then review them Monday morning for your enjoyment!

Click here to watch the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/bernie-v-hillary-round-2-turner-v?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy The Useful Idiots officially kick off coverage of the 2024 US Presidential election. And the first take: God, it's gonna suck. With terrible candidates, showy displays over race issues, and twitter fights, there's only one thing that can save us now: Frozen Biden 2024. Join us as we begin our awful parade into our political future. And don't worry, we'll make sure to take nothing seriously.