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Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
Trump finally forces the Dems' hand, as they use the "I" word (and not the one Trump likes). We talk about what finally compelled the Dems to utilize the last best hope for preserving what passes for democracy in the US.
Anticipating the future, we comment on the false equivalence fallacy that continues to figure too prominently in our culture. When it comes to respecting democracy, the constitution, the flag, and our institutions...as well as the country, the planet, and basic human decency, we really need to stop equating the two political parties. We will talk about the mistakes we make, and why we make them.
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Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dave analyzes the issues addressed in round 3 of the Democratic debates, the first in which all the top candidates appeared on stage together. Dave provides his insights into health care, taxes, guns, racism, immigration, the economy, climate change and education.
We also discuss the civility of the debate, the contrast with the other political party, the continuing influence of the progressive candidates, and the number one takeaway from the debate: that one of these people needs to defeat Donald Trump...and badly!
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Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
We examine our competitive natures. We take it as a given in this country that competition is good, but could our reverence for it prevent us from identifying it as a source of many of our ills? I confess to being a convert in support of the give-every-kid-a-trophy ideal, and wonder why it took me so long to come around.
Also, much of the big news of the week. Walmart and other retailers take embarrassingly-small baby steps regarding guns. President Trump's third, and longest-serving, National Security Adviser is fired. Or did he quit? (Someone may be telling the truth here.) We examine the legacy of John Bolton. The President again demonstrates that he is likely the nation's number one security threat who cannot be trusted with sensitive information; did he out a crucial CIA asset? The President brandishes a sharpie and thus shows his supporters he can control the weather. The latest Trump comedy of lies reveals too much about his values and his respect for truth. And the latest in gerrymandering, and musings on whether democracy can come to America.
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Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
We celebrate Labor Day, even as the governing political party continues to celebrate War-on-Labor Day. The administration and Republican party continue to engage in their war on labor in every way imaginable, including through the naming of an anti-labor shill to head the Labor Department, the continued dismantling of the regulatory state, and its continuing war on immigrant and citizen workers.
Also, David Koch dies. And we acknowledge the memory of a sort-of-human by addressing his legacy of destruction and by shedding crocodile tears. And his spawn, President Mr. Bean, goes to the G7 meeting in Europe and continues to embarrass and marginalize the US on the world stage...or the sales floor, as he would (and did) have it.
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Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
Trump once again calls for election help from a foreign leader; this time it's Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he successfully enlists in his war against the US congress, proving again that these two deserve each other, while we deserve better. Then Trump engages in anti-Semitic tropes in an effort to, seriously, gain Jewish votes. We will analyze why any US Jews might support the Hitler-wannabe.
We will also talk about the latest efforts to do nothing about mass gun carnage in the US, how lying piece of trash Sarah the Huckster officially got the reward that all Trump water-carriers get: a gig on fox news (which is basically the same as what she had when she worked directly for Trump, only it pays better). We do--again--briefly address the question of what it means that the most popular fake-news channel in the US is blatant propaganda...blatant except to the idiots who watch it.
Republicans continue their efforts to suppress votes, Trump picks a fight with Denmark (and the rest of the civilized world), and NYC policeman and killer of Eric Garner Daniel Pantaleo gets fired: and boy are the police upset about it! How the PBA manages to give unions a bad name.
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Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
Our recent question of whether the President would be held accountable for the inevitable results of his calls for racist violence is tested all-too-quickly with the Trump-inspired mass killings in El Paso and Dayton. We discuss how US anti-terrorism policy and US gun policy are determined by a political party that is both racist and willing to sell out this country for money. We ask how a civil society that hopes to survive can possibly consider reelecting this President and his party, whose treason extends well beyond that of Moscow Mitch.
The need for a functioning President was made apparent this week by the latest evidence of the existential threat posed by climate change, as was the absence of such a President in the US. The failed nomination of a fox news lickspittle for Director of National Intelligence was further evidence of a President and a political party that do not care for this country.
Jeffrey Epstein is dead under suspicious circumstances that may end up protecting a lot of ultra-rich trash, including the President. But did they save his cock for re-seeding the planet? More reason to stop venerating the super rich.
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Saturday Jul 27, 2019
Saturday Jul 27, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
The anniversary of Apollo 11, the death of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and lesser news items show us what we've lost over the last several decades, and how little we ask of ourselves.
The moon landing shows us what we could be if we shared a national purpose...or at least a belief in science. Justice Stevens shows us what Republicans could be, if they had any empathy, compassion, intelligence, or decency. He also showed us what we should expect of the guardians of our constitution and rules of law, and how far we have come from that ideal.
Robert Mueller's testimony and its aftermath show us just how fragile democracy is when you have a criminal as President, and how great is the threat to US democracy right now. California's deal with auto companies on fuel standards shows what is possible when government wants to govern. Puerto Rico shows us what can be accomplished by an energized citizenry; Boris Johnson shows us what's possible when the opposite is the case, how Donald Trump is not a unique threat, and just how fragile it all is. The budget deal shows us how small we've been trained to think, while Trump's new Press Secretary shows us...well, whatever she shows us, it's certain not to be true.
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
The President of the US puts away the dog whistle and goes full racist in his tweet telling four US congresswomen to go back to their own countries. And his political party reacts swiftly and decisively to ...oh, never mind.
We use this, the continuing saga of the serial child predator Jeffrey Epstein, and other items in the news--even a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert--to explore the concept of privilege, and how it poisons every aspect of our society. We consider the tragic irony of how privilege keeps the 99% from uniting against its true enemy: the privileged and entitled 1%.
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Saturday Jul 13, 2019
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
At the celebration of this country's independence, the President of the United States shows how little he knows about...anything! We explore how long this country will be willing to have him demean and embarrass us. We look to the latest news to continue to explore the horror of what we have become. As the continued actions of this administration and the words of the now-former British Ambassador and leaders around the world, allies and adversaries alike, continue to show us the vile nature of the US government, we pose the question to our listeners: what did you do to stop this?
We pose that question in particular regarding the continuing crisis at our border and the very differing reactions to it. We also discuss the latest on child sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, and what his case says about the impact of privilege and its role in the mess that is our nation right now.
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Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
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This Week’s Discussion:
As we celebrate this nation's independence, we are shown the horrors of what we have become, and how the 2020 election shapes up as a battle for this country's soul. We are heartened that Dems seem determined to make the election a battle of good vs. evil (not just not-so-evil vs. evil). Dave addresses how and why this country has become inured to the evil of its leaders. We start with a president who is credibly accused, once again, of being a rapist while the country collectively yawns. Then we review the horrors of what this administration, and the CBP, is doing to the most desperate and vulnerable people on the planet, including children. Then we talk about the latest reasons the US Supreme Court deserves no respect and why it is imperative that it be reconstituted after the 2020 elections, as it shamelessly advances the anti-democratic agenda of its political party.
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