publisher of the ink newsletter and author of winners take, all the elite charade of changing the world. i want to point you to a tweet which i think sums it up well. i m trying to imagine any other contacts where a publicly traded company has been a customer user product to break federal law and destroyed the lives of innocent people and then at that person to their board. elon musk has been sued to comparing justin trudeau to hitler, he was sued for defamation for calling a british cave diver had a guy. he is not exactly, i don t know your thoughts on him now being twitter s biggest owner? i am glad you brought up winners take all. although there was 300 pages of book there there was really one simple idea, buried in that 300 pages which is that we live in this moment in which the arsonists are cause playing as fire fighters. the people who cause our greatest social problems, global problems, are trying to calm us into thinking not only that they are okay but that they are the solu
that will never be filled and hopefully people who serve for public office will inspire to be like the great harry reid. we have a panel here and the ink on substacks and author of wooet winners take all, the elite charade of changing the world. ellie mystal join meese now. ellie, let me start with you on reid and his legacy because you heard faz say that one of the most consequential decisions was to get rid of the filibuster for appointees and that did unblock a ton of nominees and that was wielded by mitch mcconnell and donald trump to stuff the judiciary and we should note has led to a record amount of judicial appointments in biden s first year. so it has sort of done it for both sides. i wonder what you think the legacy of that decision is? i think it shows that what he was just talking about is true that sometimes you have to be concerned about the end state. i think reid gets unfairly
out the last coronavirus tax payments for the foreseeable future. the last six months, many parents were getting at least $300 month for cheer child. will you remember, the federal cdc eviction moratorium expired in october. right now is a publisher of the author of winners take all, the elite charade of changing the world. they re losing their coronavirus safety nets, but the coronavirus isn t going anywhere. this is all happening on the democrat s watch. is this a bad look, especially ahead of mid-terms next year in. well, it s a bad look ahead of what s going on in people s lives right now. the president of the united states has a saying i love, which is don t tell me your values, show me your budget and i ll tell you your values. so at the year s ends, let s look at what america has been willing to spend money on this calendar year and what it has been reluctant to spend money on. they are willing to spend money
big tent can get big things done and the tragedy, the tragic disappointments of this year are the political sadists and crony opportunists in joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who at every turn have chosen power and money over helping people. i am a writer. i m not a licensed clinician. i can t diagnose what s going on with manchin and sinema. i can t prescribe remedies and i do know there are therapies out there from people who derive pleasure from hurting millions of people. there are strange bedfellows and annan who you will see from time to time as a host of the show and he s a publisher of the ink, and the elite charade of changing the world. it s halloween weekend and thanks to the former administration, we have some cares in store including trump
athletics coaches and wealthy parents including lori loughlin and felicity huffman. some pretended they were charitable donations snagging tax cuts with the ill gotten admissions for their kids. joining me is anna, a political analyst and author of winners take all the elite charade of changing the world. thank you for having me. your book set the table for this and feels like after it was published it started flooding in. i have to thank these rich people. for helping you, right. yeah. the reality is you do have a wealthy class that feels they are philanthropic and great people that they re giving of charity, but they also feel really entitled. we re seeing rich people feel entitled to get their kids into elite schools so much so they re willing to bribe people for it. what s so amazing, sometimes some of these prosecutors i feel have a literary flair and the prosecutors that worked the college case had a nice literary touch. if you read the indictment