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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Ep. 10.23.20: Civil Cold War
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dave looks to add substance to another presidential debate that had precious little on its own. A debate that has value only to those awakening from a years-long slumber who are blissfully unaware of the disgrace that is the US President. He and his whole criminal party continue to demonstrate that they are incapable of caring about another human being.
Trump's constant lying throughout the debate, and his presidency, are indicative of the right-wing propaganda mill for which reality is an enemy. Dave talks about how that has created a likely-insuperable divide in this country, with reality the boundary. It is why civilized people are looking at the current election as hostages dreaming of freedom from the most evil and stupid human beings to walk the earth.
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Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Ep.10.15.20: Flies Drawn to Shit
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dave discusses the VP debate, ramming through a Supreme Court apparatchik, the latest in COVID, and, through it all, the inability of decent people to grasp how profound is the evil of the republican criminal organization.
The main takeaway from the VP debate is that flies really are drawn to shit. Pence tells us that in order to love America you must be a mindless trump cultist, and he certainly fits that bill.
Amy Coney Barrett, in turn, gives us insight into the mind of a religious zealot of the right. Apparently, Jesus was all about the Benjamins. The religious extremism will destroy the rights of millions, but it is really just a facade for morons engineered by the super-rich, that just wants more, and is happy to destroy lives to get it.
Republican show their stripes in a busy week of theft. They steal votes by setting up fake ballot drop-off boxes, showing there is no level of election theft they are unlikely to stoop to. They tip off wealthy donors to the magnitude of the COVID threat so they can make a "killing" in the stock market, while putting their voters' lives at risk by downplaying the threat publicly. Their supporters plan for the upcoming civil war they seem to relish, in some cases by planning to kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan. They tell us outright that they plan to steal the election and more, and sane people still cannot comprehend the magnitude of the threat we are facing.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Ep 10.6.20: Humiliation! Part 2: Death but no Trump Taxes
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
The momentous week of Trump humiliations continues. Dave updates the conversation regarding Trump's COVID diagnosis and its aftermath. Having repeatedly downplayed the disease to the result of tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths, Trump continues to go from negligent to murderous as he willfully inflicts others.
Then we talk about the Trump tax returns, which manage to be shocking and unsurprising at the same time. To no surprise, Trump is a spectacular loser and sleazebag. But what they tell us about the super-rich are the most valuable lessons for the future: they tend to be worthless leeches feeding on the American public.
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Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Ep. 10.3.20: Humiliation! (Part 1: Trump gets COVID and "shut up, man!")
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
It was a momentous week in news, as Trump repeatedly (again) humiliated himself and the US. Too much to explore in one episode, today Dave talks about how Trump gets the COVID he thought he had only been inflicting on others, right after he turns a presidential debate into a clown show. Tomorrow we'll talk about his tax returns, finally obtained by The NY Times.
Dave feels the same level of remorse for Trump getting COVID as the president himself has shown for the hundreds of thousands of others he inflicted. We do wish him better health, so he can suffer the rest of his life in prison. Dave wonders if the message to evangelicals is that God has decided to weigh in on the election and the US Supreme Court.
After more than four years embarrassing this country, Trump somehow manages to take it up a notch on an international stage. Biden captures the civilized world's thinking in a nutshell: "Will you shut up, man?" Trump refuses to condemn violent white supremacists, and even calls on this huge part of the GOP base to help him steal the election. Dave even finds some actual issues in the debacle to discuss.
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Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Ep. 9.23.20: R.I.P. RBG
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Death and life are in the news this week as iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away, official US COVID death passes 200,000, and evidence of extraterrestrial life may be discovered around Venus. We discuss how trump and his supporters continue to show that there had better be intelligent life somewhere out in space because there is none in the republican party.
Dave discusses the impact of RBG's death and the GOP rush to fill her seat. Democrats are being left with no choice but to put down their olive branches as republicans continue to push us towards civil war. Will their race to fill RBG's seat finally show people how despicable they really are?
Trump shows again how much he respects his supporters, calling them disgusting as he continues to sacrifice them, and better people, to COVID. By corrupting the CDC and its MMWR, Trump continues his war on US health care, even as he continues his war on US health care...and reality at large Trump shows that when it comes to COVID, health care, civil rights, and more, he is not only a disgrace, he is absolutely clueless. But he has a lot of help.
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Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Ep. 9.13.20: Murder, not Incompetence; Trump talks to Bob Woodward
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
President Trump takes his case for greatest all-time mass murderer of Americans to another level by admitting intent to Bob Woodward. In another example of explosive yet completely unsurprising revelations about our President, Trump continues to show that he is his own--and our--worst enemy by admitting to the veteran journalist that he knew for months how bad COVID was while he was telling the American public otherwise. Turns out this particular snake oil salesman knew he was selling toxic snake oil (injectable bleach, perhaps?) to the rubes who follow him. He also reminds us why this President couldn't merit a security clearance.
The US west coast burns in record wildfires and unknown numbers of Americans perish. So Dave admits that our accounting of the numbers of Americans murdered by Trump and the GOP will sell them short, since we don't have a formula for attributing to them the climate change-related deaths they have caused.
Dave also looks at recent court decisions and talks about the vicious cycle now on display in Trump-GOP-world: the courts help the GOP steal elections, so the GOP can pack the courts with more apparatchiks who will help them steal more elections, and so on, until this country spirals to oblivion. We also look at pro athletes who are proving themselves to be exemplary role models, and talk about choosing role models wisely, and briefly look at Facebook's decisions to ban new political ads the week before the election.
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Ep. 9.8.20: Trump Murders Tom Terrific
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
President Trump burnishes his case for greatest mass murderer of Americans by killing baseball legend Tom Seaver...now among the tens of thousands of COVID victims attributable to Killer Trump. We also mourn baseball legend Lou Brock, but we don't know if he goes in Trump's "win" column.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. continues to show the humorous side of right-wing Evangelical cult leaders and their disdain for their own flocks...at least when we're not thinking of the threat they and their cult followers pose to civilization.
Same goes for the President and the military, as President Bone Spurs shows how much he loves the military by calling fallen soldiers "losers". Meanwhile, the military continues to expose its "rape culture, racism, corruption and impunity," which explains its affinity for Trump, as some US soldiers find it safer to be fighting a war than living on US military bases.
Dave opines on Trump's latest efforts to steal the election. As the US military war-games against Russia, the President and his Republican criminal organization show which side they're on. Unnecessary Hint: it's not our side.
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Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Ep. 8.29.20: Crooks, Charlatans and Rubes: The GOP Shows Its Contempt for its Base
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
The Republican National Convention shows again how much contempt Donald Trump and the GOP have for their own base. While the narrative maintains that Democrats do not respect GOP voters, it is their own party that needs to keep them ignorant in order to keep feeding off of them.
We discuss the hate-and-lie-fest that is the GOP convention and its contempt for its own voters. This contempt is also examined in light of the fraud charges against Stephen Bannon, the latest shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer, and the subsequent killing of two protesters, apparently by a 17-year-old gun nut with a military rifle.
Oh, and we celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage; 100 years with the right to vote which may end, along with all voting rights, if Trump prevails in November.
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Ep. 8.20.20: Un-Conventional: The Great Divide Part 2
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
An unconventional Democratic convention surpasses expectations, despite being all about unity. So Dems are all about unity, while the Republicans continue to be all about dividing (and wrecking). Dave continues his discussion on the great divide in this country between a political party that wants to govern for the benefit of the people and a criminal organization that just wants more for itself. Dave expands the discussion by talking about how the media remains unequipped to acknowledge this distinction, and how that plays to the criminals' advantage.
These themes are explored in the context of the major news of the week. A GOP-led Senate report details Trump campaign ties to Russia and reliance on Russia, as well as its all-around incompetence, Trump and the GOP continue their war on the environment, the Post Office, democracy, and voting. Tech lords appear before congress...and Republicans expose themselves. Republicans mostly put away their dog whistles and go full racist and sexist in their attacks on Kamala Harris. How nice guys finish last in the political world.
And a reminder of the impact of the Republican theft of federal courts, as a Trump appointee and a George W. Bush appointee prevent California from protecting its citizens from mass gun deaths.
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Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Ep. 8.13.20: Grand Canyon Divide (part 1)
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Dave comments on the choice and uses it to explore how recent events continue to reflect the stark divide in this country between a political party and our governing criminal organization. Disinterest in governing, and the governed, is also evident in the latest in the republican non-response to COVID and the economy it has helped ruin. Dave also looks at the war trump has chosen to fight: that against democracy, including his corruption of the census, the US Post Office, and voting. Also, The NY Attorney General goes up against the NRA.
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