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Bad Faith is two shows in one: it's a panel show about politics and pop culture with a rotating cast of performers and politicians, artists and activists, writers and radicals; and it's a two-way podcast where two people from two very different parts of the left make the case for one less terrible world. 
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​Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) is a former attorney, National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign, co-host of campaign podcast Hear The Bern, and a journalist who is early enough in her political career that she remains (tragically) sanguine.
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​Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) is an internet user and co-host of Chapo Trap House.

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Episode 136 Promo - I Told You So: The Podcast

Dec 27, 2021

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This week, Brie vented to Stephen Semler, co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute, about all the Build Back Better angst she's been sublimating over the holidays. Stephen's central observation, drawn from his foreign policy analysis, is critical: "Joe Manchin says he won’t support Build Back Better because it costs too much—a week after voting for $778 billion in military spending. Manchin has now voted for the last 11 Pentagon budgets." So what gives? Why isn't Manchin being confronted on the emptiness of his excuses, and how much are progressives to blame for this failure? Was Jayapal right to say she had no strategic regrets? Brie and Stephen run through the week's media clips, kvetch, and plot next steps.

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