80. This Week in Asian American Politics: Biden's Re-election Announcement, Asian American landlord movement, Climate Change in Asia, and Streaming's AAPI Representation
05/02/23 • 46 min
This week in Asian American politics:
- Biden announced he is running for re-election despite an NBCNews study that says 7 in 10 Americans don’t want him to do that. Biden cites the Big Bad Orange as good enough reason to run again as the oldest president America has ever had, begging the question, when will the evil be defeated?
- We discuss an article from a conservative publication about Asian American landlords and how weirdly a bunch of people our age want to be landlords? The article cries rivers about who will stick up for the little guy small business landlords, as if we all don’t know that it’s giant corporation landlords that these regulations are about
- Asia is hit with a “monster” heatwave—we’re talking about climate impacts across India, Pakistan, China, and the Philippines. While the US is running in circles about debating whether climate change is real, the climate catastrophe is already impacting parts of Asia that don’t have the infrastructure to protect the people.
- And lastly, we cover a report that points out streaming has better AAPI representation than traditional broadcast cable television. Gerrie has to use their college degree for once and explain to Aaron what broadcast television is. Netflix pumps $2.5billion into South Korea content, and more.
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This week in Asian American politics:
- Biden announced he is running for re-election despite an NBCNews study that says 7 in 10 Americans don’t want him to do that. Biden cites the Big Bad Orange as good enough reason to run again as the oldest president America has ever had, begging the question, when will the evil be defeated?
- We discuss an article from a conservative publication about Asian American landlords and how weirdly a bunch of people our age want to be landlords? The article cries rivers about who will stick up for the little guy small business landlords, as if we all don’t know that it’s giant corporation landlords that these regulations are about
- Asia is hit with a “monster” heatwave—we’re talking about climate impacts across India, Pakistan, China, and the Philippines. While the US is running in circles about debating whether climate change is real, the climate catastrophe is already impacting parts of Asia that don’t have the infrastructure to protect the people.
- And lastly, we cover a report that points out streaming has better AAPI representation than traditional broadcast cable television. Gerrie has to use their college degree for once and explain to Aaron what broadcast television is. Netflix pumps $2.5billion into South Korea content, and more.
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/politicallyasianpodcast/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/politicasianpod
- Website: https://politicallyasianpodcast.com
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We’re continuing our guest streak with podcast pal @decolonialbulaklak aka Ienna Fernandez! Ienna is an organizer for @anakbayanqueens, a youth organization that fights for national democracy and other related issues in the Philippines with a socialist perspective. this week, we chat about her journey, leftist politics, and community organizing. We love a good podcast listener to podcast guest pipeline!!
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Two Asians talking about politics and the Asian American community to get more Asians talking about politics! Join comedians Aaron Yin (he/him) and Gerrie Lim (they/them) for 45 minutes-ish each week as they discuss current topics and events related to Asian Americans through the lenses of history, class, and advocacy. Think John Oliver's show, but there's two of us, and we're Asian.
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Chinese American Politics, Korean American Politics, Japanese American Politics, South Asian politics, Asian American politics, AAPI politics, Asian American Political Alliance, Asian American leader, Asian American Protests 1960s, Asian American policy, Asian leftist, Asian American leftist, Asian American leftist podcast
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81. This Week in Asian American Politics: The Philippines Gives 4 More Bases to the US, US Debt Ceiling (we are poor), the Writers Guild of America strike, Tou Thou convicted in George Floyd case
This week in Asian American politics:
- The United States wants to add more military bases in the Philippines as the relationship with China deteriorates. It’d be like if you got your friends to follow your current partner on social media because you’re about to break up with them and you’d like to block. Except instead of social media, it’s military bases. Also your friends are the offspring of a former dictator.
- Do you have a bad credit score? Maybe your credit card bill is kinda lengthy? You’re not alone—so does the United States! Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns that the government needs to figure out if we’re going to raise our own credit limit or just default on our national Amex.
- We discuss the Writers Guild Association’s (WGA) strike. It’s the first one in 15 years or 2007. Roughly 11,500 writers across the industry have put down their pens and picked up picket signs. What are their demands? How will this affect you? And what’s different this time?
- Tou Thou, the last cop involved in George Floyd’s murder has been convicted and sentenced to jail. Thou’s defense was claiming he didn’t know Floyd had stopped breathing. Thing are not great when your defense is that you’re bad at your job.
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WHAT'S POLITICALLY ASIAN PODCAST?
Two Asians talking about politics and the Asian American community to get more Asians talking about politics! Join comedians Aaron Yin (he/him) and Gerrie Lim (they/them) for 45 minutes-ish each week as they discuss current topics and events related to Asian Americans through the lenses of history, class, and advocacy. Think John Oliver's show, but there's two of us, and we're Asian.
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CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Our memes are so good Asian people will mention them when they meet us in real life.
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/politicallyasianpodcast/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/politicasianpod
- Website: https://politicallyasianpodcast.com
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INQUIRIES: [email protected]
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SUPPORT US ON BUY ME A COFFEE (currently fundraising for episode transcription services and a video editor): https://buymeacoffee.com/politicalasian
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MUSIC by Clueless Kit: https://soundcloud.com/cluelesskit
Song title: live now
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ALGORITHM?
Chinese American Politics, Korean American Politics, Japanese American Politics, South Asian politics, Asian American politics, AAPI politics, Asian American Political Alliance, Asian American leader, Asian American Protests 1960s, Asian American policy, Asian leftist, Asian American leftist, Asian American leftist podcast
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