Jul 22, 2019
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David Waldman begins the week off with racism and impeachment and racism-impeachment talk.
But first, did you read that Al Franken article? It is a must read article that David sure as hell won’t read, at least until you kids in the back pipe down.
A QAnoner on a secret (imaginary) mission from Donald Trump takes out a mob boss (for real) in a blow to the (imaginary) Deep State. Buzz Aldrin couldn’t beat the conspiracy theories out of his moon landing truther.
Greg Dworkin calls in to decompound our national tincture of intolerance, while white anxiety, and Presidential approval keep going up. Over 80% of Republicans do have a racist bone in their bodies, and have inherited their identity politics with their skin color. Their strategic deployment of bigotry has been the default practice used to undercut democracy, therefore we must fight Trump and everything he represents. But... you can’t fight Trump directly, and you can’t ignore him, and you can’t fight him on substance, and you can’t fight him with artifice, so maybe Dems should become extemporaneous… and hire screenwriters. Oh maybe Robert Mueller will get up there and fix it all... After all he would if this was a TV show.
Many people get campaign information from their friends and family, which is one reason you are being tracked to your church.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren pulls closer to Bernie Sanders in a progressive straw poll and Sanders might be losing his NH firewall. Is Kamala Harris the one to beat?
Armando calls in to discuss the mechanics of impeachment and the whys and why nots of emoluments lawsuit dismissals.
Ivanka Trump and Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler have substantial evidence that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. They’d both prefer to keep their concerns private.