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We look at how our leaders are celebrating Memorial Day. One political party commemorates our fallen soldiers by trying to build and preserve what they gave their lives for; the other political party continues its efforts to tear it all down. Any guesses as to who's on which side?
Dave discusses the latest in voting rights, battling deadly pandemics, fighting bigotry, preserving the planet, helping families, building a stronger America, and how republicans are fighting all of the above. President Biden fights to have government again serve its citizens, but republicans and two Democrats are preventing him from doing so.
Also, republicans find nazis everywhere except where they actually exist; within their own party. And criminal charges appear to get closer for donald trump.
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Ep. 5.23.31: Leading from [the] Behind
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The Republican party demonstrates anew that it has no leaders; the dog is completely led by the woeful tail it has created over the past four decades. So who, exactly, is it that Democrats are supposed to be working with?
The question of how low they can go is addressed again as the GOP prevents an investigation into its own actions in inciting an insurrection and assault on the US Capitol. It is being addressed again as they limit abortions in clear violation of Roe v. Wade, hoping that the Supreme Court they have installed as a minority party overrules that long-standing precedent once and for all.
Also, Dave discussed the latest on Covid, the noose possibly tightening around the neck of GOP congressman and likely pedophile Matt Gaetz, a disappointing jobs report, and, yes, more trouble in and out of Israel.
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Ep. 5.9.21: Eulogy for Reality
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The republican party and the events of the last weeks prompts Dave to begin preparing his eulogy for reality, which is already dead to tens of millions in this country. The big remaining question is whether a eulogy will soon need to be delivered for the United States.
Liz Cheney's breed of dishonesty is no longer sufficient in the GOP, as she gets drummed out of leadership for acknowledging the reality that donald trump lost the 2020 election. Senator Tim Scott delivers the bizarro-world response to the President's not-quite State-of-the-Union address from some planet that can't be earth. Also, the fake republican reality of guns, net neutrality, trump, and criminal justice in the Dept of Justice under trump AG William Barr.
Meanwhile, Biden gives an inspiring speech for those of us who choose to live in the real world.
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Ep. 4.25.21: Retire the Pledge of Allegiance!
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We address the big story of some justice for George Floyd; the conviction of the police murderer of George Floyd is a watershed event in America. But it, the reaction to it, and other big events from the week continue to demonstrate how far from "one nation" with "liberty and justice for all" America really is. So why would we make kids recite this bullshit?
President Biden and the Democrats continue to show how far they have progressed in seeking a better country and better planet, proposing policies to dramatically respond to climate change, racial injustice, mass shootings, and deadly pandemics, while republicans continue to show how they will have none of any of that.
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Ep. 4.12.21: The Myth of Compromise
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Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says Biden should work to compromise with Republicans. Maybe if he agrees to give up his job they will let him keep his head! But Biden goes through the motions with his infrastructure plan. We discuss this pathetic fiction that there is such a thing as compromising with a criminal organization that believes in nothing but its own power, and why moderates and the media keep falling for the fiction that the GOP will be willing to compromise on behalf of an American people they don't care about.
Dave also talks about the Biden tax plan and ponders the possibility that this country might return to some form of progressive tax system, where the rich need to chip in a bit more to pay for what this country needs. In less uplifting economic news, the quest for economic justice took a big hit with the failed unionization effort at an Alabama Amazon warehouse. The GOP war on unions, and workers, gained another big victory. Also, we finally spot both cancel culture and democracy, in the GOP's efforts to wage war on corporations that are doing what their customers are demanding and opposing Republican voter suppression efforts in Georgia.
Finally, the latest news on trump-loving Republican congressman Matt Gaetz. Is he really a sex-trafficking creepy pedophile or, like the rest of the GOP, does he just like to hang around with them?
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