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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
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
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
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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Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dave discusses the end-of-term US Supreme Court decisions, along with some other momentous federal court decisions. Despite some near misses and a couple of decisions worthy of celebration, this term is a tragic reminder of how extremist the republican criminal organization has become and how radical it has made our courts.
Despite appearances, the Supreme Court continues to further the republican assault on abortion rights, democracy, workers and the regulatory state. But it shows a real soft spot for religious fanaticism. Another reminder that to preserve this country and its best ideals, Dems must win in November and remake the courts in the image of what US voters have voted for.
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Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Trump says he passed a very difficult cognitive test, possibly demonstrating he is not excessively brain damaged, and thus is his argument for remaining President. Then he goes about unleashing his Gestapo on American cities, and thus is his argument for remaining President.
When he is not fomenting civil war, Trump continues to protect the US from the deadly COVID pandemic by sacrificing US lives by the tens of thousands. As confirmed US death tolls surpass 150,000, the Republican criminal organization in the Senate introduces a relief bill apparently designed to cause maximum destruction of US workers. The GOP bill has three goals in mind: Stealing their way to further riches and perhaps reelection, class warfare, and hamstringing a future Democratic government.
Also, some of the latest in our corruption watch, baseball is back, and Biden shows us the alternative!
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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
The death of civil rights icon and long-time US Congressman John Lewis gives us chance anew to discuss what it means to be extremist in America today. Republicans further embarrassed themselves when two GOP Senators tweeted pictures of deceased congressman Elijah Cummings in their disingenuous tributes to John Lewis. But the greater insult was in the faux tribute to a man they were attacking yesterday and will be attacking again tomorrow.
Congressman Lewis gives us another chance to look at false equivalences and extremism. Lewis represented what extremism is on the left: a willingness to fight for social justice and opportunity. Several prominent republicans represent what it is on the right: support for donald trump, the lunatic right-wing conspiracy group QAnon, and fantasy over reality.
Dave discusses the latest in President trump's efforts to battle the coronavirus by sweeping it under the rug, as he continues his assault on facts and reason. Is destroying America and killing Americans somehow a campaign strategy, such as by creating an excuse to close polling places? That's probably giving trump too much credit for being something other than a blunderbuss whose privileged life has rendered him incapable of doing anything other than self-promotion. Dave posits that that is why America is so divided; we have a President who knows only divisiveness.
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Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
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To get even trump supporters on board with beating COVID, Dave suggests doing the unimaginable; making republicans accountable! Let's make people who don't follow guidelines personally liable for the injuries that result. (in fact, let's even have some guidelines!)
Even better, Dave offers an additional modest proposal. Since people not practicing good safety practices are posing a direct threat to others, let's invoke Stand Your Ground laws (instituted to allow whites to shoot black people with impunity) to justify shooting anyone not wearing a mask in public! And of course, let's vote the threat-in-chief out of office in November!
Even the most selfish people respond to incentives.
We continue our discussions on free speech, American exceptionalism, the rich, and in light of trump's commutation of his henchman Roger Stone's sentence, our fascist-wannabee president. For fascists and rich people, both categories in which our president falls, the law is never an obstacle...or a concern.
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Happy July 4 everybody! For most of us, a celebration of US independence; for our president, a celebration of secession and the US Civil War. In a bitterly racist and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore on a day of national unity, Trump continues to make it clear that the 2020 election will be a battle for white supremacy...and totalitarianism.
We take stock in America for Independence Day. As Americans pat ourselves on the back for our imagined superiority, we put our exceptionalism in a somewhat harsher light judged by world events. Our "exceptional" failure to address a deadly global pandemic is a symptom of a country with a huge segment of its population that is exceptional only in its ignorance, its stupidity, and its selfishness. And with a political criminal organization that can achieve electoral success only by ensuring they remain that way.
That brings us back to the latest arguments in support of a re-examination of how we treat free speech in America. One of our most vaunted parts of our revered founding document, its application is being used to create the opposite of the "marketplace of ideas" it was intended to create. Instead, it is a facilitator of hate and lies and Dave questions whether a society as ignorant as ours can survive it. We look at the NY Times decision to publish a hate and lie-filled op-ed by a US Senator, and Dave argues that responsible media needs to stop printing lies and manipulative content.
Meanwhile, China's crackdown on Hong Kong is a lesson for the US protests for justice: if you stop, you will lose.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dave switches gears a bit from our prior show on hope to talk about how Republicans elevate the interests of those who kill humans above the interest of actual humans. We take a few minutes to reflect on corporate America's role as undisputed champion of killing Americans.
Dave talks about "tort reform" and other ways bad actors avoid suffering the consequences of their own actions. These basic themes not only explain the actions of corporate America, but also those of the trump administration and of the police that have led to the current movement for social justice.
With the Fourth of July holiday approaching, we would never forget some of President Donald Trump's latest betrayals of his country. This week we learn that US intelligence agencies told the President that US geopolitical enemy (but, more importantly, friend of the President) Russia offered a bounty to the Taliban in Afghanistan on the heads of US military personnel. In response to our adversary's (but friend of Trump's reelection prospects) conspiracy to murder Americans with our enemy, the President chose to do nothing. His excuse: I'm too stupid and too much of a security risk to have been told about it. (Editor's note: turns out he was told about it!)
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