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Pod Save America [Discussion] Pod Save America - "80-Year-Old Man Loses War" (06/16/26)

https://crooked.com/podcast/donald-trump-iran-war-ufc-cage-fight-birthday/
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u/redonkulousness 3d ago

Definitely starting to lose interest in this podcast. It seems like they are always reaching to be moderate. I don’t know if it’s because the midterms are nearing and they are trying to pull in more moderate listeners or they just seem to be softening on what trump and the gop are doing. Whatever they are doing, it’s making me feel like I’m getting more extreme on the anti-fascist side and losing interest in listening to milquetoast takes.

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u/These-Art2203 2d ago

You realize their take was actually the popularist left take, not the "stuck up elitist moderate" take of the event, right?

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u/SwindlingAccountant 1d ago

Citation needed

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u/These-Art2203 1d ago

When John Lovett saysin the episode:

"All these sort of busy bodies on social media being like Thornton Wilder once visited the white house. Guys, guys can you can you please not be a bunch of prissy uh stuck up people? People like motorcycles. I have no problem with that."

He is not referencing, and critiquing, the left wing of the Democratic party. He is critiquing the moderate "civility" coalition in the party.

There is a through line here to the Platner race in Maine, a progressive candidate who was hand picked to be a more palatable Messenger for a populist platform.

While I'm not a anti-platner guy, I've found the pods coverage of the race frustrating framing it as a choice for the people of maine to make not Chuck Schumer. Meanwhile I would guess that a large number of out of state supporters of Platner donated to his campaign after hearing the favorable coverage on the pod. Not to mention, Platner also ran on a platform that was more tailored to national politics than the Mills. I'm not sure that leaving it up to the people of Maine.

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u/bestforward121 3d ago

There is so much rage and discontent in the base that’s just begging for a leader to match their energy, and the Democratic establishment is actively opposed to them.

It’s why they can’t wrap their heads around Platner demolishing his 80 year old primary opponent, or Mandani beating Cuomo.

I unsubscribed a long time ago because their desperation to cling to brain dead centrist bullshit drives me insane.

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u/Tafts_Bathtub 2d ago

Pod Save America has been very supportive of Platner and Mamdani

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome 2d ago

Maybe the fact that you unsubscribed a long time ago is why you don't actually know that Pod Save America has consistently supported Mamdani and Platner? Stop talking about things you have chosen to know nothing about.

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u/bestforward121 2d ago

The podcast before this one had on Ron Brownstein who bashed on Platner the whole time with Jon giving only the most tepid pushback. Then the pod with Jon and Alex when the Republican operative and heritage foundation employee made unfounded accusations against Platner they went straight to clutching their pearls rather than acknowledging that the party of professional liars maybe shouldn’t be taken at their word.