Episodes
Sunday May 24, 2020
Ep 5.24.20: Hydochloroquine Rots the Brain: And Trump Shows Us The Proof
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Trump uses hydrochloroquine, which might lead us to conclude it rots the brain. Further contravening his own administration, he won't wear masks; no need to listen to experts when you don't care how you hurt others. And more on Trump's efforts to solidify his claim to greatest American-killer of them all!
We discuss the latest on Trump's efforts to not just kill Americans, but to kill America itself. He continues to ramp up his war on American civil society, law and order, and democracy. Even after his most recent Inspector General firing, another blatant cover-up of his criminal administration, we continue to indicate that we just don't appreciate the severity of the threat. We get closer to having an answer to the question of what civil minds will do when he and his criminal organization squash any semblance of democracy to steal the 2020 elections.
Finally, we examine the role of the media in the age of the two existential threats: COVID-19 and today's GOP. What do we need to learn if we have any hope of surviving? Is Constitutional Free Speech a suicide pact?
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Sunday May 17, 2020
Ep. 5.17.20: Above The Law; trump follows the totalitarian playbook
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Moving further down the totalitarian road, Trump indicates the law is not something he needs to be burdened by. The Justice Department throws in the towel in a game it has already won, by seeking to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn after he has twice pled guilty. This assault on the law and the US is far worse than is being portrayed (and it's not being portrayed as so great, either). This while Trump argues in the US Supreme Court that he is above the law. The fateful question is whether the Court will even bother to try to hide its naked partisanship as it engages in its naked partisanship.
Also in Supreme Court news, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case in which it will likely rule that support for slave owners is the only existing rationale for our electoral college system. (Other than the high principle of continuing to let unqualified republicans win presidential elections they have lost.)
Trump declares war on Obama by accusing him of the worst presidential crime ever; just give him a few minutes to make up something good about what that crime actually was. Add this to armed insurrectionists battling public health with the blessing of this President, and all in the name of their freedom to destroy the lives of others, and this country slips ever closer to civil war.
Oh, and let's not forget the latest administrative disasters regarding the Covid crisis, as Republicans continue to sacrifice their citizens to improve their reelection prospects. Trump solidifies his lead in the race to kill the most Americans.
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Ep. 5.5.20: Injecting the Clorox (for cultists who don't like Kool-Aid)
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
We discuss that the "leader of the free world" suggested injecting disinfectants as a possible solution to a deadly global pandemic. (Then we discuss the fact that we really had to write that sentence.)
We note some of the latest Trump moves to eliminate facts, reason, science, and oversight from the US government, with the help of his criminal organization (the GOP). Speaking of tools, GOP governors prepare to open their states, while GOP cult followers and religious zealots (ie, tools) are told to protest against public health measures, and do so, at tremendous cost to public health. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch continues to fight the Civil War, attacking as fiscally irresponsible the blue states that feed his own, even while his criminal organization diverts Cares Act money to themselves and to wealthy contributors. In sum, the GOP continues to show that thousands of dead Americans and billions of stolen relief are a price it is happy to pay for electoral victory.
Dave continues to offer his thoughts on how recent events should inform us on weighty public issues. Today, it's about freedom, loyalty, and patriotism. (And maybe a few other words that mean the opposite of what they are supposed to.)
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