Episodes
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Ep. 4.25.21: Retire the Pledge of Allegiance!
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
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This Week’s Discussion:
We address the big story of some justice for George Floyd; the conviction of the police murderer of George Floyd is a watershed event in America. But it, the reaction to it, and other big events from the week continue to demonstrate how far from "one nation" with "liberty and justice for all" America really is. So why would we make kids recite this bullshit?
President Biden and the Democrats continue to show how far they have progressed in seeking a better country and better planet, proposing policies to dramatically respond to climate change, racial injustice, mass shootings, and deadly pandemics, while republicans continue to show how they will have none of any of that.
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Monday Apr 12, 2021
Ep. 4.12.21: The Myth of Compromise
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
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This Week’s Discussion:
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says Biden should work to compromise with Republicans. Maybe if he agrees to give up his job they will let him keep his head! But Biden goes through the motions with his infrastructure plan. We discuss this pathetic fiction that there is such a thing as compromising with a criminal organization that believes in nothing but its own power, and why moderates and the media keep falling for the fiction that the GOP will be willing to compromise on behalf of an American people they don't care about.
Dave also talks about the Biden tax plan and ponders the possibility that this country might return to some form of progressive tax system, where the rich need to chip in a bit more to pay for what this country needs. In less uplifting economic news, the quest for economic justice took a big hit with the failed unionization effort at an Alabama Amazon warehouse. The GOP war on unions, and workers, gained another big victory. Also, we finally spot both cancel culture and democracy, in the GOP's efforts to wage war on corporations that are doing what their customers are demanding and opposing Republican voter suppression efforts in Georgia.
Finally, the latest news on trump-loving Republican congressman Matt Gaetz. Is he really a sex-trafficking creepy pedophile or, like the rest of the GOP, does he just like to hang around with them?
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Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Ep. 4.4.21: Biden's New New Deal
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
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This Week’s Discussion:
Perhaps the two most crucial things this country needs to do is fix our broken democracy and fix our broken country. We talked about Biden's and the Democrats' efforts to address voting rights last week and this week we discuss Biden's plan to fix the country. The US has failed to invest in itself for years, and Biden's plan is to make much, but not all, of the investment we need to keep America competitive. It is a laundry list of things this country needs that will greatly improve the lives of our citizens while paying for itself by raising taxes on the super-rich, including super-rich foreigners and Covid profiteers. It is immensely popular. So who can be against this? Why, Republicans, of course.
Dave also talks about the military repression and murder in Myanmar that has the GOP up in arms about the fact that they can't do that too. Dave also opines on the latest assaults on US democracy and, speaking of which, on the investigation into possible child sex trafficking and other sex crimes by vile Congressman Matt Gaetz. He really is the next Trump, keeping us shocked and not the least bit surprised at the same time.
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