Season 2 opens with Hani and Shawn returning behind the mic to dissect the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle following Kamala Harris’s landslide defeat (1:20). From her unearned and abrupt coronation to the rise of the consultant-industrial complex (10:50), our hosts explore how the weaponization of progressivism has fostered domestic apathy while enabling liberal imperialism abroad.
The conversation turns toward diaspora complicity—how elite communities remain entrenched in party loyalty, even as genocidal campaigns rage across the Global South (17:25). Through a takedown of the Democratic Party’s political theater and the hollow spectacle of “incremental change,” the hosts expose how empire continues to cloak collapse and corruption in the language of reform (18:25).
Tracing the decay from Obama’s legacy to Harris’s humiliation, they argue the empire is crumbling under the weight of its contradictions (35:36)—giving rise to the Axis of Resistance as both reality and narrative rupture. As they say: “Sir—full support, sir.” The satire is sharp, but the stakes are real.
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