David Dayen, journalist and executive editor of The American Prospect, joins me today to talk about: ICE, the government shutdown, and the Democratic party’s inability to address people’s needs

https://prospect.org/

Dayen has been a contributing writer to Salon.com and The Intercept, a weekly columnist for The New Republic and The Fiscal Times and has also written for The New York Times, Vice, Naked Capitalism, In These Times and other outlets.[10][11] In 2019, he became the executive editor of The American Prospect.[3] In 2024, he and antitrust researcher Matt Stoller began the spin-off podcast Organized Money.[12]

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    12 days ago

    Rs: Let’s buy a gun!

    Ds: OK

    Leftists: this is a terrible idea

    Nazis: LOL

    Rs: let’s load the gun!

    Ds: OK

    Leftists: this is a terrible idea

    Nazis: LOL

    Rs: let’s leave our loaded gun on the table!

    Ds: OK

    Leftists: this is a terrible idea

    Nazis: LOL

    Trump: starts firing randomly

    Rs: LOL

    Nazis: LOL

    Leftists: this gun should not exist

    Ds: please fire less randomly

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      12 days ago

      I think being pro gun ownership is relatively common among leftists in general, at least that’s my lived experience. From Marx to the black panthers, I know there’s an SRA too.

      But I agree with the sentiment. Rs / Nazis adore state-sanctioned murder, Ds are only concerned about state-sanctioned murder if it starts to look bad. And even then, they’re only concerned about the optics, not the murder.