Ep. 046 - America, You Are Cooked

In this episode, we get into what the United States has been doing to Venezuela for over 20 years and what seems to be culminating under Trump 2.0, Bari Weiss and the banned CBS/60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega prison/torture camp, and the billionaire technofascist takeover of our minds.Show notes:Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage of Venezuela https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article/3113/clinton-emails-reveal-direct-us-sabotage-of-venezuelaThe Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco https://newrepublic.com/article/178675/garry-tan-tech-san-franciscoBanned 60 Minutes Report on CECOT Torture and Abuse https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segmentFOLLOW ME: https://linktr.ee/anotherguypod Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 49, Another Guy gets into the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the ensuing wave of chaos, raft of political targeting, and vile opportunism that has been unleashed by the right in the week since, and where we are headed from here.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

The abject failures of neo-liberalism have blasted an opening through the fabric of society that fascists are trying to fill. An investigation by Byline Times has found a toxic amalgamation of dark money, tech platforms, virtually untouchable hard right-wing billionaires, and far right criminal gangs that are all behind the race riots that occurred over the last few weeks in Britain, and are fueling the far right movement globally.SHOW NOTES:As thousands turn out against the far right, were the planned riots actually a red herring? https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/08/08/race-riots-7-august-uk/On Saturday the country stood up to racism – but was it right, and is it enough? https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/08/12/stand-up-to-racism-part-oneExposing the Real UK Race Riot Instigators: The Key Players and Transatlantic Network Around Tommy Robinson https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exposing-the-real-uk-race-riot-instigators-the-key-players-and-transatlantic-network-around-tommy-robinson/A new Home Office report admits grooming gangs are not a ‘Muslim problem' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/19/home-office-report-grooming-gangs-not-muslimAFG Socials: https://linktr.ee/anotherguypodBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 47, I share my thoughts on sentiment regarding children in some circles on the left and right, neo-Nazis outed in a court battle in the UK, and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and how Donald Trump and the GOP are framing it. Socials: https://linktr.ee/anotherguypodSHOW NOTES:Luke Turner on established neo-Nazi Nina Power and associates’ harassment campaign against him: https://luketurner.com/Nina_Power/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 46, another fucking guy talks about one of the worst weeks in American history. Between the presidential "debate" and the latest round of Supreme Court decisions, the United States is looking as cooked as ever.SHOW NOTES:The FBI’s Double Agent: The Informant at the Heart of the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was a Liability. So Federal Agents Shut Him Up. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-informant/Whitmer declines to call Israel Gaza invasion a “genocide” https://www.wkar.org/2024-election/2024-04-15/governor-gretchen-whitmer-said-sunday-that-using-words-such-as-genocide-to-describe-events-in-gaza-is-meant-to-inflame-and-divide-usInstagram: http://instagram.com/anotherguypodThreads: https://www.threads.net/@anotherguypodX: https://twitter.com/anotherguypodBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/anotherguypod.bsky.socialSubstack: https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherguypodCheck out Graymane's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/164HnnlSKUAdXYwIM4drmEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 45, we get into the nationwide crackdown by police on pro-Palestinian student protesters demonstrating against the complicity of their universities in helping along the U.S.-Israel genocide of PalestiniansInstagram: http://instagram.com/anotherguypodThreads: https://www.threads.net/@anotherguypodX: https://twitter.com/anotherguypodBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/anotherguypod.bsky.socialSubstack: https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherguypodCheck out Graymane's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/164HnnlSKUAdXYwIM4drmESHOW NOTES:Netanyahu Decries Reported US Plan to Sanction Army Unit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-21/netanyahu-condemns-reported-us-plan-to-blacklist-military-unitPrison officers traumatized by rate of executions in U.S. death penalty states: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/prison-guard-trauma-execution-death-penaltyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

Far right activist Chris Rufo has spearheaded a targeted op to oust now-former Harvard President Claudine Gay, among other academics considered threats to the white, Christian capitalists in American power. The attack is part of a wider campaign on the right to remove liberal orthodoxy and replace it with fascism.X: https://twitter.com/anotherguypodBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/anotherguypod.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/anotherguypod/SHOW NOTESIs the age of liberalism coming to an end? https://www.jphilll.com/p/is-the-age-of-liberalism-coming-toWyoming limiting child marriage sparks Republican outrage https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back. https://inthesetimes.com/article/far-right-public-schools-takeover-south-teachersBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 43, we get into the history of how and why Israel keeps turning up the heat on Palestinians and then acts all surprised when the powder keg they keep refilling keeps exploding each time they light a match.Instagram: @anotherguypodX/Twitter: @anotherguypodPLEASE SEND A BLUESEKY INVITE!!!SHOW NOTES: A Textbook Case of Genocide: Israel has been explicit about what it's carrying out in Gaza. Why isn't the world listening? https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocideHow Palestinians were expelled from their homes https://youtu.be/rGVgjS98OsUThe Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus https://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdfBlowback: How Israel went from helping create Hamas to bombing it https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/Christian Zionism: It's one of the most successful, and in some ways unlikely, interfaith movements in the modern world https://aeon.co/essays/christian-zionism-the-interfaith-movement-hiding-in-plain-sightThe Impact of Christian Zionism on American Policy https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/ad/ad_v9_2/daw01.htmlA Palestinian Former Knesset Member Explains the Delicate Politics of His Party https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/former-palestinian-knesset-member-explains-his-party.htmlHalf of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/WHO: Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured https://www.who.int/news/item/14-10-2023-evacuation-orders-by-israel-to-hospitals-in-northern-gaza-are-a-death-sentence-for-the-sick-and-injuredNetanyahu At War | PBS Documentary https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-netanyahu-war/Post-9/11 wars’ death toll estimated at 4.5M https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4006281-post-9-11-wars-death-toll-estimated-at-4-5m/'Greater Israel' map provokes anger after minister's comments https://youtu.be/9XZFDqOieA4 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 42, we discuss the sprawling clusterf*ck of characters on the conspiratorial right, how they feed off of one another's audiences, and how they supplement the global far right movement that seeks to install fascism through propaganda, stochastic terrorism, and outright violence.Instagram/Threads: https://www.instagram.com/anotherguypod/X: https://twitter.com/anotherguypodMastodon: https://toad.social/@anotherguypodBluesky: SEND ME AN INVITE CODE PLZSHOW NOTES:The Beat with Ari: See Trump Vet Roger Stone Pushing Elector Plot On Tape https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/see-trump-vet-roger-stone-pushing-elector-plot-on-tape-beat-exclusive-190982725545CCDH poll: Belief in conspiracy theories higher among teenagers than adults, as majority of Americans support social media reform https://counterhate.com/blog/belief-in-conspiracy-theories-higher-among-teenagers-than-adults-as-majority-of-americans-support-social-media-reform-new-polling-finds/Steven Monacelli: These Christians Think God Needs You Rich And To Rule The World https://www.texasobserver.org/these-christians-think-god-needs-you-rich-and-to-rule-the-world/Gen Z influencers, quietly recruited by a company with deep GOP ties, rally to impeached Ken Paxton’s aid https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/14/influenceable-texas-politics-ken-paxton/Kyle Rittenhouse launches nonprofit with far-right Texans as he ramps up political engagement in the state https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/kyle-rittenhouse-texas-foundation/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.

In episode 41, we touch on the allegedly looming arrest of former president Donald J. Trump and peel back the veil of concern-trolling anti-trans profiteering among the liberal pundit class that is aiding and abetting the right wing crusade to eradicate transgender people from public life.Twitter (if you're still there): https://twitter.com/anotherguypodPatreon: https://patreon.com/anotherguypodSHOW NOTES:***DO YOUR PART! --> Find your local PFLAG chapter: https://pflag.org/Study: Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-TransitionContinuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00254-1/fulltext“Regret after Gender Affirming Surgery – A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Multifaceted Patient Experience” https://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/abstract/9900/_regret_after_gender_affirming_surgery___a.1529.aspxDetransition rates in a national UK Gender Identity Clinic (page 118) https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdfFactors Leading to “Detransition” Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213007/Health Care Experiences of Patients Discontinuing or Reversing Prior Gender-Affirming Treatments https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794543 Factors predictive of regret in sex reassignment https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9570489/Factors associated with satisfaction or regret following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12856892/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/another-fucking-guy-with-a-podcast--4745521/support.