{"id":24751,"date":"2023-01-13T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=24751"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:34:14","slug":"force-the-vote-with-pelosi-challenger-shahid-buttar-at-about-20-minutes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/force-the-vote-with-pelosi-challenger-shahid-buttar-at-about-20-minutes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Force the Vote with Pelosi Challenger Shahid Buttar [at about 20 minutes in]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Force the Vote with Pelosi Challenger Shahid Buttar\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiRwX_F45vI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>usefulidiots  \u2022 Jan 13, 2023 For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVk3WllfVWxNdVlrRFJXbFdic0pRMG5OeGtFd3xBQ3Jtc0ttSFN4ZjNWREdTS2FpSmVZQWRoT1FOVm41WEJpRk1zV0RYWWIzb1FLZDBWNURqZERCMmJsaWlTQ3BGNmNFbUdib3E2TU9GLWs1SXZrVzdvV2Jqc05nMTF4bHdHOXlBRUlwLU1idVdhbGs1a0I4eDRBVQ&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fusefulidiots.substack.com%2F&amp;v=KiRwX_F45vI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/usefulidiots.substack.com<\/a> Click here for the full interview with Shahid Buttar: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjR0T216N0FfaGlQT1RDMlphb3p3bUZQcFlRZ3xBQ3Jtc0trQmdjdG01aFBkanFjM181WGl5VWhBemFxWHM0NnFLcEJXSDQwclM5aV9UTlZNaGo4OWY0TVYyYjFyV2NrUXd4d1I1ODZCbVdoNzVMS0NjWm9la25yQWU5WTczMXZCeEdZbTFaT19DNjRMMFBTRTVKZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.substack.com%2Fpub%2Fusefulidiots%2Fp%2Fextended-episode-force-the-vote-with%3Fr%3Dje5va%26utm_campaign%3Dpost%26utm_medium%3Dweb&amp;v=KiRwX_F45vI\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/usefuli&#8230;<\/a> Advocate, artist, lawyer, organizer, musician, and former politician Shahid Buttar joins Useful Idiots to explain why Democrats are failing. Why is he a former politician, you ask? Well after running a campaign against Nancy Pelosi and getting buried by racist attacks from liberals, Shahid realized a sad truth about politics: \u201cPoliticians, as well as journalists and lawyers,\u201d he told us. \u201cAre all about careerism. People care about their careers more than the principles of their profession.\u201d And so self-proclaimed non-racists like Pelosi use racist attacks against opponents of color, like Shahid and Nina Turner, to keep their claws sunk deep into power, shielding themselves from any review of their own anti-democratic voting records. But Shahid doesn\u2019t put all the blame on these power-hungry, corporate vultures for choosing power over human values: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible not to in a fascist country.\u201d Shahid continues to explain how corporate Democrats cover up their power-hungry policy through distraction, claiming Donald Trump and January 6 are the real threats to democracy \u2014 all so that Americans are too beaten down from hearings to realize our government is busy overthrowing democracies around the world and spying on us at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usefulidiots \u2022 Jan 13, 2023 For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http:\/\/usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview with Shahid Buttar: https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/usefuli&#8230; Advocate, artist, lawyer, organizer, musician,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/force-the-vote-with-pelosi-challenger-shahid-buttar-at-about-20-minutes-in\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24752,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751\/revisions\/24752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}