Ep. 9.13.20: Murder, not Incompetence; Trump talks to Bob Woodward

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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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