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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
We celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with enthusiasm, as we finally breathe easier that the next President of the United States will be the guy Americans actually voted for a few weeks ago.
The transition to the incoming Biden administration gives us reason to be hopeful for the future. At least hopeful for the fact that we will have decent, competent, qualified people running our government again; people who care about the fate of their own citizens. We welcome the change this will bring, as we discuss Biden's early cabinet picks.
Dave also talks about how Covid continues to rage, and how the current President continues to show us, in his failure to provide any leadership during this crisis, how much the new President is needed.
In the spirit of celebration, look out for our special holiday episode interview with Forward Nation Radio founder and creator Damian Hardeen, coming soon.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Lest we be inclined to celebrate our stay of execution, Biden's win, America finds itself under assault from two enemies. The first is Covid, the second is the President of the United States and his criminal political party.
Dave looks at the latest evidence that we have a whiny little baby in the White House, not a President. As Covid roars back, the absence of a leader looms larger than ever. As the President continues to deny election reality, we ponder how much this is aimed at overturning the election result, how much is a whining tantrum, and how much is just trump's latest grift.
We have almost as low an opinion of 70+ million trump supporters as the President and his party have, and wonder about the future of a country with these voters in it.
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
The country has elected Joe Biden...barely. We celebrate our survival, and try to forget for a few moments that we remain on life support.
Dave discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of this presidential election result. There is much to celebrate in the defeat of the greatest internal threat to our so-called democracy that we have ever known...assuming trump and the GOP fail to incite a revolution and Biden gets to take office. There is a dissipation of fear in this country, and perhaps even a renewal of hope. We celebrate that, but remind ourselves that the theme song of the moment is "I Will Survive", and not "Hope Once Again".
And 70 million Americans voted for donald trump. We have our work cut out for us; Let that rain on your parade.
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Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
One day before the most fateful election in US history, and perhaps in world history, Dave opines on what is at stake.
Including Covid, of course.
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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
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
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
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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
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
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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
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
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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
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
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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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