The Slow Road to Dictatorship
Veteran HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte lays out survival tips for covering Trump, what's really happening w/ Venezuela and more
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Today on the show, veteran HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte, he’s in the trenches every day and fearless. I originally asked him on to chat about Venezuela and sea-faring and why speedboats can’t make runs from Venezuela to mainland U.S., but then we went deep on what happens in authoritarian countries and why living in a dictatorship completely sucks
SHOW NOTES
The moment Dáte learned that this second Trump term would be just as bad as so many of us feared
The wishful thinking of Republicans who thought Trump would just vanish after the January 6th insurrection
The potential for a third Trump term, seriously and literally
Why the White House is targeting Venezuelan speedboats, and why the Pentagon is pushing questions on it to the White House
The lessons of Venezuela on how long it takes before you realize you are living in a dictatorship and it completely sucks
Why dictators attack free speech and comedy first
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