Intro

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5 Show Notes

Emails + Shout Outs

Outro

There were 15 references to China in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The recent bill passed by the House, which is more than what President Biden requested (because that makes fucking sense) contains 89 references to China. It’s official. We have our new existential bogeyman threat. Battle stations, everyone. We’re going to war with China. Someday. Or are we? Why would we? What the actual fuck is our problem? Today’s episode pulls back the cover on our latest propaganda campaign designed to scare the shit out of us and normalize aggression toward our largest trading partner on the planet.

Chapters

00:00:40 Intro

00:01:55 Chapter 1

00:05:15 Chapter 2

00:13:47 Chapter 3

00:19:25 Chapter 4

00:28:37 Chapter 5

00:37:31 Show Notes

00:39:41 Emails + Shoutouts

00:49:45 Outro

Resources

Richard Nixon Presidential Library: Nixon in China: Film

Militarist Monitor: Gatestone Institute

AlJazeera: Biden administration approves $650m weapon sale to Saudi Arabia

Brookings: Rising to the Challenge: Navigating Competition, Avoiding Crisis, and Advancing US Interests in Relations With China

Democracy Now!: Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows

60 Minutes Australia: Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning to the world

Democracy At Work: The Competition Between China and the U.S. - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff

Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky: Trump's attacks on China are a continuation of "Yellow Peril" fear-mongering

Unf*cker Recommendations 

Vivek Ramaswamy: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

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Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’

There were 15 references to China in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The recent bill passed by the House, which is more than what President Biden requested (because that makes fucking sense) contains 89 references to China. It’s official. We have our new existential bogeyman threat. Battle stations, everyone. We’re going to war with China. Someday. Or are we? Why would we? What the actual fuck is our problem? Today’s episode pulls back the cover on our latest propaganda campaign designed to scare the shit out of us and normalize aggression toward our largest trading partner on the planet.
Chapters
00:00:40 Intro
00:01:55 Chapter 1
00:05:15 Chapter 2
00:13:47 Chapter 3
00:19:25 Chapter 4
00:28:37 Chapter 5
00:37:31 Show Notes
00:39:41 Emails + Shoutouts
00:49:45 Outro
Resources
Richard Nixon Presidential Library: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cfsI4ZjTbU">Nixon in China: Film</a>
Militarist Monitor: <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/gatestone_institute/">Gatestone Institute</a>
AlJazeera: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/4/biden-administration-approves-650m-weapon-sale-to-saudi-arabia">Biden administration approves $650m weapon sale to Saudi Arabia</a>
Brookings: <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FP_20211105_us_china_rivalry_hass_jones_allen.pdf">Rising to the Challenge: Navigating Competition, Avoiding Crisis, and Advancing US Interests in Relations With China</a>
Democracy Now!: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HendU4zRg9A">Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows</a>
60 Minutes Australia: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3vns42Nd8">Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning to the world</a>
Democracy At Work: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEYv__qq0A">The Competition Between China and the U.S. - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff</a>
Democracy Now!: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KsN4ijdFQ">Noam Chomsky: Trump's attacks on China are a continuation of "Yellow Peril" fear-mongering</a>
Unf*cker Recommendations 
Vivek Ramaswamy: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781546090786">Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam</a>
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Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’

Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 

Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 

As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 

Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

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