Join host Chelsea (attorney, social worker, advocate, and avid therapy-goer) as she walks listeners through the legal history of some of the biggest issues facing the country. Her background in administrative law, reproductive justice, cognitive behavioral therapy, and the Legend of Zelda proves her a worthy adversary to the general muck and mayhem of the American political sphere.
Topics in season one include: what the f*ck is the 14th Amendment?; why the f*ck is the American healthcare system so bad?; and who the f*ck said a burrito was a sandwich?
On this week's episode of America, What The F*ck?, Chelsea provides a walkthrough of gun control in the United States... and how it actually used to be pretty good, before SCOTUS (surprise, surprise) ruined it all.TW: Gun violence, school shootings, assassinations, and other violence discussed in this episode. Listener discretionary is advised.
18 Feb 2025
Marbury v. Madison v. J.D. Vance
On this week's episode of America, What The F*ck?, Chelsea dives into three important topics: (1) did J.D. Vance f*ck a couch (lol); (2) what is judicial review?; and (3) why is America teetering on the brink of monarchy all of a sudden? The answers to all of them may surprise you.
Remember, you can check who your representatives are (state AND federal) at https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials. You can't spell "activism" without "do literally anything but Tweet about it, for the love of god."
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3 Feb 2025
Why is American healthcare so bad?
On this week's episode of America, What The Fuck?, Chelsea dives into one of the most complicated problems of our time... why American healthcare sucks so bad. Does she solve it? No, but you will probably feel a little bit better about not feeling all too bad that the United Healthcare CEO got got.
NOTES:
The real reason why Americans have employer based healthcare (https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/921287295/history-of-employer-based-health-insurance-in-the-u-s)
U.S. Healthcare from a Global Perspective (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022)
The Affordable Healthcare Act of 2010 (https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-the-affordable-care-act/?entry=table-of-contents-what-did-the-aca-change-about-health-coverage-in-the-u-s)
27 Jan 2025
WTF is birthright citizenship?
On today's episode of America, What The F*ck?, Chelsea walks through a history of birthright citizenship. What is it? How do we have it? Where did it come from? And what, exactly, does Donald Trump intend to do with it? Spoilers: It isn't good.
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LINKS
National Immigrants Rights Center - Know Your Rights (https://immigrantjustice.org/know-your-rights/ice-encounter)
The National Archives: Dred Scott v. Sandford (https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dred-scott-v-sandford)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Nuremberg Laws (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws)
White House - Donald Trump's Executive Order re: Citizenship (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/)
AP News - Judge Blocks EO re: Citizenship (https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-lawsuit-immigration-9ac27b234c854a68a9b9f8c0d6cd8a1c)
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