place between those two men, but now this bipartisan group may be soon the only game in town and may be starting with the electoral count act and then perhaps you ll see democrats try to see what else they can build a coalition around that enough republicans might support. again, that might very soon be the only game in town. yeah, indeed. let s talk also about what s been happening in arizona, the martin luther king jr. s family was there, others marching for voting rights in arizona to try to put pressure on senator sinema and possible also on her fellow senator mark kelly up in a very tough re-election vote, another critical vote they would need to change those filibuster rules. right, absolutely. it s been a really tough run, andrea, with democrats coming out of 2021 and now heading into this month of january or leaving this month of january with seemingly what looks like a lot of failures, in arizona this push to really persuade sinema who s made it very clear on
americans have a lot of economic might we just don t have anywhere to put it. we give our money to the same corporations that oppose us because they re the only game in town. i m tired of this nonprofit mentality that s permeated the right the last generation that says all we can do is lose, complain and beg for donations. nonsense we can build alternatives. laura: yeah, from universities, like hills dale, we need 50 hills dales we need private schools across the country. we have billionaires, they have to open up their wallets and stop endo you go buildings at harvard and princeton and start endo you go universities and entertainment entities. disney by the way just did release a new series for kids jeremy called rides up and sing out to discuss micro aggressions. watch. hey gabrielle. i didn t know that was your mom. your skin is so much darker than hers. hold it. did that comment make you feel uncomfortable? that s a micro aggression. what s a micro aggression.
is at this stage. i m wondering going forward what it says about whether we could deal with the taliban. the last administration, you know, brokered this agreement with the taliban that president trump said since would have never produced would have seen what we re seeing now. this administration, because it s the only game in town, has to deal with the taliban and issues of control and what have you. but going forward, apparently the taliban has been saying we want you to maintain some diplomatic presence in the country, and so, they re in this weird stage where we re working with each other, we don t trust each other. we don t necessarily like each other, but we kind of both need each other. do you agree with that? if that is in fact true, and i m not sure it is, but if it s in fact true, it s pathetic stance in afghanistan and we should never have gotten to this point. the previous administration has measurables in the agreement
are realising that creators drive a lot of engagement and trends, and it s not enough any more to just give them a place to grow an audience. they need to offer them better features and ways to get money, and besides youtube which used to be the only game in town, there wasn t a way to earn directly from social media networks until the last year or so. becky, what do you make of these new developments? i think there is a really growing trend of creators who are trying to kind of, almost regain the connection between themselves and their audiences without the platform because at the end of the day, it s really hard to trust the platforms. you know, changes are being made every single day to the algorithms, how our content is being served to our audiences and is often done in a very hard to read, almost like black box algorithmic way, which is hard to decipher and decode and you often second guess yourself and what you re doing. am i doing something wrong, why are my views not flowing ve
we need to do something different here? yes, i think tiktok and the pandemic have just been such big drivers of this. tiktok has totally up ended the creator ecosystem. as sam mentioned, they have made it so easy for the average person to go viral and garner a big audience and i think that social media platforms are realising that creators drive a lot of engagement and trends, and it s not enough any more to just give them a place to grow an audience. they need to offer them better features and ways to get money, and besides youtube, which used to be the only game in town, there wasn t a way to earn directly from social media networks until the last year or so. becky, what do you make of these new developments? i think there is a really growing trend of creators who are trying to, kind of, almost regain the connection between themselves and their audiences without the platform because at the end of the day,