Heard Tell w/Andrew Donaldson for 08Aug22

Vote-a-rama/Inflation Reduction Act, Alex Jones, Afghanistan, AR-15s in Schools, w/ Prathamesh Yamul

Your Heard Tell forMonday, August the 8th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with the sad spectacle of “Vote-a-rama” in the US Senate as the Inflation Reduction Act passes through reconciliation. We’ll talk about the whole mess from Build Back Better, to Build Back Manchin, to what happend over the 16 hours of reconciliation, and what it tells us about the current state of things in congress. Alex Jones loses his civil case brought by the Sandy Hook parents, and while Texas law is going to curtail the awarded damages, we break down what happens when a dealer in inflammatory fantasy has to face hard truth in a court of law. Our guest today is Prathamesh Yamul, who has a piece out on how one year out from the botched US withdrawl from Afghanistan a turf war between the Taliban and ISIS-K is dictating what’s going on in the war torn country. Prathamesh walks us through what has happened in Afghanistan in the year since Kabul fell, and other than the drone strike again Zawahiri when most folks in…