Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 4 March, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Will the New Illustrious Dunderheads Lead us Into WWIII
Article: "Will the New Illustrious Dunderheads Lead us Into WWIII?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Illustrious Dunderheads by Rex Stout.
Instagram: "I wish the CIA cared about our own border security like they care about Ukraine's. I will not vote to fund the CIA's war with Russia and the rest of my Republican colleagues should do the same. The U.S. Congress needs to focus and fix our own nation's problems!" by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Article: "The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin" by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz.
Article: "If Ukraine falls, 'Baltic states will be next', says Russia's former PM" by LRT.lt.
Article: "How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Shaping China's Plans for Taiwan" by Rebecca Kheel.
Article: "Republican opponent of U.S. aid to Ukraine argues his case at Munich Security Conference" by AP.
Article: "Medvedev floats idea of pushing back Poland's borders" by Andrew Osborn and Caleb Davis.
Article: "J.D. Vance goes all the way to Munich just to insult Ukraine" by Josh Rogin.
Article: "US Supreme Court rules Colorado cannot ban Trump from presidential ballot" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury" by Callum Jones and Lauren Aratani.
Article: "Here's what SCOTUS just did — and did not do — in its 'unanimous' Trump ruling: experts " by David Badash.
Article: "Read the Decision in the Trump Colorado Ballot Case" by NY Times.
Too "much" to be president?
Article: "On the subject of "Is Joe Biden too old to be president"" by EarlG.
Article: "Majority of Biden's 2020 Voters Now Say He's Too Old to Be Effective" by Lisa Lerer and Ruth Igielnik.
Article: "Russian Orthodox Church" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Breaking down the number of veterans in the 118th Congress" by Leo Shane III.
Article: "Tammy Duckworth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Failure of the "Budapest Memorandum" Is a Betrayal of World Peace" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Oswald Spengler" by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! Trump rages at Fani Willis "escapades" as an embarrassment. Could there be anything more embarrassing to American than a president convicted of Rape and boasting "grabbing pussies?" 'SEXCAPADES!' Trump Rages at 'GREAT EMBARRASSMENT'
Article: "'SEXCAPADES!' Trump Rages at 'GREAT EMBARRASSMENT' Fani Willis As Judge Weighs Disqualification in Georgia" by Jennifer Bowers Bahney.
Article: "Trump's Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls" by Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti.
Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: "Trump Once Said Republicans Are the 'Dumbest Group of Voters'?" by Izz Scott LaMagdeleine.
Article: "Transcript of Rona Barrett's 1980 interview of Donald Trump" "Rona Barrett: Why wouldn't someone like yourself run for political office? ... Trump: Because I think it's a very mean life.".
Article: "Donald Trump case tracker: where does each investigation stand?" by Cameron Joseph, Joan E Greve, Andrew Witherspoon.
Hour Two: Tennessee banning Pride flags in schools should be a YUGE concern
Article: "'A concern for everyone': Tennessee poised to ban Pride flags in schools " by Ava Sasani.
Case: "Obergefell V. Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).
Article: "Death of Nex Benedict" by Wikipedia.
Article: "New CDC Data Shows LGBTQ Youth are More Likely to be Bullied Than Straight Cisgender Youth" by CDC.
Article: "As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view" by Marc Ramirez.
University of Florida terminating all diversity, equity and inclusion positions...Why? Because that's what DeSantis' wants...
Article: "University of Florida terminating all diversity, equity and inclusion positions" by Edward Helmore.
Quote: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." - Donald J. Trump.
Article: "France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote" by Kim Willsher.
Saudi are cutting oil production to raise prices in advance of the election to help Donald Trump
Article: "OPEC to Extend Oil Production Cuts Through June" by Stanley Reed.
Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.
Article: "Trump admin bypassing Congress with $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates" by Conor Finnegan.
Article: "U.S. approved secret nuclear power work for Saudi Arabia" by Timothy Gardner.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Extermination camp" (death camp) by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.2 - Secure the Border Act of 2023" by Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26].
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Site: Minocqua Brewing Company.
Article: "Ivana Trump buried at Trump National Golf Club cemetery in Bedminster, NJ " by Bernadette Hogan, Natalie O'Neill.
Article: "The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump" by Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.
Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Nazi gun control argument" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of white nationalist organizations: United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Trump's trial calendar is shaping up ahead of 2024 election" by Stefania Palma, Joe Miller.
Article: "Michael Cohen (lawyer)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Is the digital dollar dead?" by Mike Orcutt.
Hour Three: The Attack from Within
- Barbara McQuade, MSNBC legal analyst / Professor - U. Mich Law School / Former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan 2010-2017 (appointed by President Obama - she was the first woman to serve in her position) / Author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America" @BarbMcQuade @UMichLaw
Article: "Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images" by Marianna Spring.
Article: "Elise Stefanik Condemned After Jan. 6 'Hostages' Remark" by Natalie Venegas.
Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Article: "" by .
Article: "Trump's "Shared Psychosis" Is Destroying the Fabric of Society" (adrenochrome) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Mike Flynn holds MAGA 'doomsday prophecy' gathering: 'Everything you believe in is right'" by Matthew Chapman.
Site: FactCheck.org.
Site: Snopes.
Site: PolitiFact.
Article: "Internet Research Agency" (IRA) (Yevgeny Prigozhin troll farm) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here's a breakdown of indictments and cases in Mueller's probe" by ABC News.
Article: "How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools" by Jon Henley.
Article: "US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation" by Tara Copp, Seung Min Kim.
Article: "Munich massacre" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Map of gun deaths across the U.S. shows cities have lower rates than rural counties" by Aria Bendix and Joe Murphy.
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Article: "14th Amendment section 5, July 9, 1868 "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Article: "Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6" by Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer.
Article: "A 6-year-old Palestinian-American was stabbed 26 times for being Muslim, police say. His mom couldn't go to his funeral because she was stabbed, too" by Holly Yan, Brad Parks, Lauren Mascarenhas and Virginia Langmaid.
Facebook: "Plainfield Community Alliance".
Article: "The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.
Is Victor Orban's visit to Mar-a-Lago a cause for alarm? You betcha....
Article: "Trump's Mar-a-Lago playdate with Orbán is cause for alarm" by Ja'han Jones.