Aug 13, 2017
Note: this week's podcast
was recorded on the Friday evening before the white supremacist
terrorist attack in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
Van
Jones is the first guest on this week's episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the president of
Dream Corps, a two-time New York Times bestselling author,
a former adviser to President Barack Obama, an activist and
organizer, as well as commentator on CNN. He is currently traveling
the United States as part of the WE RISE tour in an effort to
mobilize voters to stand up against Donald Trump by working for
systemic change on a local and national level.
During this episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show, Van and Chauncey discuss America at six
months under Trump's regime, the Democratic Party's failure to
mobilize its voters, Trump's so-called "white working class"
voters, what resistance should look like in this moment, and the
responsibility that Bernie Sanders' and other third party voters
who chose not to support Hillary Clinton on Election Day share for
the national disaster that is Trump's presidency.
This week's podcast also features
two other great guests.
Friend of the podcast and
contributor to Jacobin magazine "Werner
Herzog's Bear" stops by to share some stories about his
recent pilgrimage home to Nebraska and how "Trumplandia" is often
misrepresented by the mainstream corporate news
media.
Writer and journalist Jared Yates
Sexton also sits down at the virtual bar and salon to
share his experiences fighting Trump's and other right-wing trolls
online. Jared and Chauncey also make some predictions about the
violence that Trump has unleashed in America and what they feel is
the very real possibility of imminent death and mass mayhem across
the United States caused by white supremacists and their
allies.
As is their habit, Jared and
Chauncey also spend some time discussing professional wrestling,
the upcoming WWE Summerslam pay-per-view, and of course Mayweather
vs. McGregor. This is bonus content that can be heard at the very
end of this week's podcast.
In this week's episode, Chauncey
DeVega reflects on Trump's threats of nuclear war with North Korea,
the white supremacists in the White House, and pleads with
listeners to prepare for what seems like obvious and predictable
violence at this weekend's Charlottesville white supremacist hate
festival.
At the end of this week's podcast
Chauncey also shares a story about how small the world really is
and why we should all count our blessings.
You alluded to the malevolent policy spree by the current GOP in power, this is a theme that is consistent in totalitarian governments, they legislate people to death to ensure intentional starvation, deprivation, and famine. Recall Stalin managed to kill millions of his people, with the power of redistribution of resources in order to ensure those far from the centers of supply would die of starvation. Mao did the same thing, killed tens of millions of Chinese by intentionally starving them with the power of the state. Bloodless Genocide through intentional governmental malfeasance.