Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The GOP's 60-Year Authoritarian Plot: Perhaps None Dare Call It Treason. But I Do.
Article: "The GOP's 60-Year Authoritarian Plot: Perhaps None Dare Call It Treason. But I Do." by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Real estate developer Donald J. Trump bought full-page ads in three major U.S. newspapers to say the United States should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to protect themselves" by AP.
Article: "When Trump is Finally Revealed as an Agent of Foreign Governments - Will America Wake Up?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke.
Article: "This Chart Shows How Reaganomics Has Destroyed The Middle Class" by Wes Williams.
Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "FBI Releases Files on Ivana Trump" by Jason Leopold, Ryan Teague Beckwith, and Mike Dorning.
Article: "CORRECTION: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity" by Dean Baker.
Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.
Article: "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy" by David Smith.
Book: None Dare Call It Treason by John A. Stormer.
Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Article: "2023 World Press Freedom Index – journalism threatened by fake content industry" by RSF.
Article: "Number of journalists killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 attacks called unprecedented loss" by Michel Martin.
Article: "Israel 'cannot guarantee' safety of journalists in Gaza, military says" by Thomson Reuters.
Article: "Israel-Gaza War Most Dangerous Conflict For Journalists" by Mark Taylor Canfield.
Article: "Saturday Report 12/2/23 - Loyalty test for people who want to work in the next Trump GOP administration revealed..." (Sandra Day O'Connor) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote"(Al Gore won) by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.
We all knew J6 was organized from the top down
Article: "We knew it! J6 was organized all the way to the top!" by IntegrityMatters.
Seriously - you can't make this up Crazy Alert! Tucker Carlson is 'Open Minded' to the Conspiracy Theory 'Nazi Scientists' Faked the Moon Landing for the U.S...
Article: "Tucker Carlson 'Open Minded' to the Conspiracy Theory 'Nazi Scientists' Faked the Moon Landing for the U.S." by Jamie Frevele.
Article: "Operation Paperclip" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Should Democrats Trade the Southern Border for Ukraine?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)" by USCIS.
Article: "Donald Trump reiterates pledge to scrap birthright US citizenship" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
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: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2 "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
Law: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
Hour Two: The "gofundme" experts thinks Clarence Thomas "sponsorship" is really bribery - Is it? You betcha!?
Article: "'GoFundMe': Experts say Clarence Thomas being 'sponsored by billionaires' is 'bribery'" by David Badash.
The Ohio GOP plot to thwart those who backed "immoral and evil" abortion rights
Article: "Ohio Republicans plot to thwart voters who backed 'immoral and evil' abortion rights" by Brad Reed.
Article: "'Stay one step ahead': GOP operatives scramble to keep popular initiatives off the ballot" by Maya Boddie.
Article: "After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion" by Jayme Lozano Carver.
Geeky Science! The Dutch are riding their bikes on two new solar cycle paths
Article: "The Dutch are riding their bikes on two new solar cycle paths" by Michelle Lewis.
Article: "Florida Bill Would Ban Communities From Flying LGBTQ Pride Flags" by Chris Walker.
Article: "Black, Gay Republican Heckled With Slurs at MAGA Event" by Khaleda Rahman.
Article: "The legal border crossing in this tiny Arizona town has been closed indefinitely because there are too many migrants" by Julia Ainsley.
Article: "In Escalation, Adams Says Migrant Crisis 'Will Destroy New York City'" by Emma G. Fitzsimmons.
Article: "UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges" by Beth Mole.
Article: "Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry" by Patrick Rucker, David Armstrong, Doris Burke.
Article: "Bracero Program" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Sandra Day O'Connor Single-Handedly Busted Our Union" by Kathy Wilkes.
Hour Three: "tripledemic"...covid, flu & RSV
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist - New England Complex Systems Institute / (per Dr. Feigl-Ding) "first whistleblower on the Covid pandemic" / former faculty member & researcher-Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. @DrEricDing @FAScientists
Article: "CDC sounds major alarm as new 'highly contagious' Covid variant grips the US - symptoms" by Isabelle Durso.
Article: "'Tripledemic'? Local medical experts urge vaccination as COVID, flu and RSV hospitalizations spike nationwide." by Angie Leventis Lourgos.
Article: "COVID strain classified 'variant of interest' by WHO as cases rise" by Sky News.
Article: "CDC warns providers of 'urgent' need to boost vaccination against COVID, flu, RSV" by Nathaniel Weixel.
Article: "United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics" by Worldometer.
Article: "Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Immunizations" by CVD.
Video: People experiencing long-term impacts from colds and flu, similar to long-COVID, study finds.
Article: "Doctors in meltdown as mystery China virus 'stops responding' to all antibiotics" by Adam Cailler.
Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Article: "'Awaiting Trump Speech': The cable news mantra of campaign 2016" by Erik Wemple.
David L. Smith's Cassandra Chronicles
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THE PROSECUTOR MEETS THE CRIMINAL
Why Trump is Chickening Out of Debating Kamala Harris
DAVID L. SMITH
JUL 26, 2024
The tidal wave of enthusiasm generated by Vice President Harris's campaign reflects the thinking electorate's desire to participate in a truly historic event comparable to Barack Obama's campaign in 2008. It is beyond satisfying to see her displace Trump from the headlines in the press, leaving him little alternative but to take cheap potshots from the sidelines, exposing his unfitness for the presidency.
Her opening salvo, "Believe me when I tell you that I know Donald Trump's type," has scared him into backing out of debating her for the flimsiest of reasons until after she is nominated (and probably thereafter) because, fittingly, he's a criminal and she's a seasoned prosecutor and he knows how that will end. Here are some thoughts on how she would demolish him:
• To goad Trump into incoherent rage, end her opening statement with an attack by paraphrasing his words back at him: (Speaking to the camera.) “You know when the Republicans send their people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing crime. (Look Trump in the eye.) They’re rapists, they’re convicted felons, they’re cheats and liars. (Look at the camera.) And some, I assume, are good people. And to you good people, I want to say, You can do better. And, together, we can do better.” (The strategy should be to woo traditional Republicans and never-Trumpers with reasons to join up with Harris to avert the disaster of a second Trump presidency.)
• Blunt his firehose-full-of-lies (‘Gish Gallop’) attacks by refusing to rise to the bait, wasting precious time she can devote to delivering her message. Dismiss his word salad with a wave of the hand and a laugh, saying “No, no, no, no. I’m not going to waste my precious time debunking your latest additions to the 30,000 documented lies you told during your presidency and who knows how many more since you lost the 2020 election by 7 million votes. I’ll leave that to the fact-checkers. What the American people want to know is what a Harris/(insert vice president) Administration will do about...(address the issue raised by the question).“
• When he continues with his firehose approach say: Mimicking Reagan, “There you go again (laugh).” Continue with “What the American people deserve to know is . . .”
• “You say, ‘President Biden is the worst president in the history of the country.’ Tell that to the 15 million unemployed Americans in 2020 who got jobs during the Biden/Harris Administration, more than any other president in history over the same period, resulting in the lowest unemployment rates in 8 decades. Tell that to the X million Americans who obtained affordable health care insurance through the Affordable Care Act, reducing the number of uninsured to an all-time low of 7.2% in 2023. Tell that to the millions of Americans whose salary increases are outpacing inflation. Tell that to the American households who are wealthier and in better financial shape than ever before by almost any measure. Household net worth rose to a record $156.2 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, from $131.4 trillion at the end of 2020. Tell that to Americans who witnessed homicides plunge from 6.8 per 100,000 population at the end of your administration to 5.6% during the first 3 years of the Biden/Harris Administration . Honestly, I don’t know what planet you’ve been living on for the past 3 years. You must have been praying to Our Lady of Alternative Facts. (Notice, this is a defense presented as an attack. Data provided by Bloomberg.)
• Hire comedy writers to supply one-liners ridiculing Trump’s lines of attack.
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Trump has so far managed to evade accountability and consequences for his many crimes by legal legerdemain within a judiciary he stacked with compliant toadies. He expects to finalize his escape from justice by winning back the presidency, which carries with it disastrous consequences for the nation. An electoral defeat in the court of public opinion is the last best hope to avert this travesty. Who better to try a criminal in the court of public opinion than a prosecutor who “knows his type”? In Kamala Harris the woman and the hour have met.
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