On today’s BradCast, Trump and the GOP trip over themselves in their mad rush to his 100th day as President, while Americans plan to hit the streets yet again in protest, this time in a Saturday demonstration on behalf of Planet Earth. [Audio link to show follows below.]
Amidst the Trump Administration’s panic to try and un-embarrass themselves about their historic lack of accomplishments before this weekend’s “100 Day” benchmark, things only seem to be getting worse for them. Among their latest embarrassments: A new DHS program launched by the Administration to supposedly help victims of crimes purportedly committed by immigrants goes awry in several different ways; the new scramble to pass an updated health care bill in the House to replace the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) has put some Republicans in an untenable position once again, and risks undermining a separate plan to avoid another government shutdown this weekend; the Pentagon confirms that Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is under an Inspector General’s investigation for allegedly failing to obtain permission for payments from foreign sources; and Sean Spicer confirms the Administration didn’t even bother to run a security background check on Flynn before naming him as NSA. (So much for “extreme vetting”.)
But, on Saturday, the 100th Day of his Presidency, another embarrassment awaits as thousands plan to hit the streets yet again, this time for the People’s Climate March, just days after Trump signed an Executive Order attempting, for the first time in U.S. history, to reverse national monument declarations made by three former Presidents. Among the public lands Trump hopes to remove protection for, to allow oil, gas and mineral extraction: the Bears Ear National Monument in Utah, a million acres “sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.”
Marta Segura of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute (whose modest mission is “Saving Life on Earth”), and a member of the steering committee for Los Angeles’ version of this weekend’s march, joins us to discuss all of that and more.
On Trump’s attempt to reverse public lands declarations, Segura charges: “The agenda of the Trump Administration is to strengthen the fossil fuel industry and to give them access to lands that have not been explored for fossil fuels, and which they suspect there will be a lot of opportunity to make a lot of people, and a lot of the refineries, very rich, very fast.”
“He’s claiming that the government has had a ‘land grab’ on these lands across the nation, and has taken control without the consent of the people,” she tells me. “He’s misusing that term. He’s basically trying to control these lands so that he can benefit the industries. The people are the ones that are benefiting from these public lands right now. That’s the definition of public lands.”
Speaking about this weekend’s climate march and why it’s separate from last weekend’s March for Science, she explains why organizers in L.A. chose to hold their version of the People’s Climate March near the site of a planned Tesoro Oil refinery expansion in Wilmington, near a densly populated residential area on the coast. If the expansion is allowed, she says, it would result in the “the largest refinery in the Western region. And it will be expanding at a time when we really need reductions in greenhouse gases.”
“This march,” Segura tells me before finishing on a hopeful note, “is for the representation and lifting voices of front-line communities who are disproportionately impacted by the greenhouse gases and pollution.”
And, speaking of Planet Earth, we close today with some of Bill Maher’s thoughts on hopes by some billionaires (and environmentalists) for colonizing Mars…
Is this intended to be an exponent, e.g. “his mad^100 day” or “his mad100 day”?
Because in that case, I really think it should be plural “days”; they’ve all been quite mad so far….
* [Ach, the superscript tag was not accepted around the ‘100’ in ‘mad100’…]
Whoops! Thanks, Raven! In my mad rush to post, it looks like I forgot the “rush” in their mad rush! 🙂 Fixed!
That’s rich, obstructing Trump every inch the whole way then terming it a, “mad rush” oh please not even obama had this much trouble placing people.
thinking it’s funny even though you won’t admit it, realize your opposition BLAMES YOU. IN the end, Might want to think about that while assaulting and battering them at your next domestic terrorist BAMN/Anti-Fa march, ask yourself is this the day they had enough of this “mad rush”
I see you make joke of this too.
” supposedly help victims of crimes purportedly committed by immigrants”
Within walking distance of my front door, in sanctuary California (sic), home of the AR bullet buttons *from the in PRISON (should be Leavenworth) Cali’s Senator Leland Yee for trans-national arms trafficking, I can take you to where you can be threatened, robbed, probably killed if your white, by a trans-national gang who I assure you has no such, NCIC database, FFL restrictions, or ccw requirements to jump through, yeah and Jerry Brown is in no mood to have them removed. They’re the new voters California’s liberal coup wants.
You Libs go to the “Resiste” march cause it looks good to hang out for the photo op in the morning with the smiling faces, flowers and chirping birds. The Resiste march is the Science March is the LGBT march is the OPEN BORDER march, is the BAMN march is the ANTI-FA march. you see your on the WRONG side, just ask Eric the Bike U-Lock 242 teacher
Soon you will have some competition. This sickness will be cast out.
RPF @4: So reporting on Trump is obstructing him?
Gee, what kind of cause is it that the truth hurts?
… ’cause Richard Nixon felt the same way.