On today’s BradCast, you have me as your host – Angie Coiro – as Brad and Desi catch some breath over the holiday.
In our first few minutes, stay with me while I connect some dots: Trump’s wall demands, and the opioid death toll in America. What he’s willing to spend on those two issues tell us a lot about him: time, money, interest, commitment, and especially honesty. It’s a bit numbers-heavy, but worth the time, I think.
Robert Mercer is stepping back into the shadows, putting out less to buy elections and reportedly losing influence as a result. Then the latest in the eternal riddle: why the hell does anybody trust Wells Fargo with their money?
We take a good long look at abortion today – starting with the latest from Ohio – and tomorrow, as ROBIN MARTY discusses her new book, A Handbook for Post-Roe America. She makes a good case that it doesn’t really matter if Roe gets overturned in court; we’re fighting a system that’s biting away at it so efficiently and relentlessly, we need to prepare anyway.
And we wrap with the second part of my interview with JAMES HATCH, Navy Seal and survivor of the effort to free Bowe Bergdahl in Afganistan. He tells his story – and that of his charity, Spike’s K9 Fund, in his book Touching the Dragon.
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I’ve got a wall building idea.
Let’s build a wall of palates of building materials, put all along the border with sale price stickers on them, and advertisements sent all throughout the country of Mexico.
Mexican businesses can drive up to the border and purchase the building supplies and take them back to their communities, so that they can develop an improved infrastructure system they need. In the process the Mexicans can pay for the wall that was put up, and the people along the border won’t have a cement eye sore on their property for a very long period of time. Trump can claim he created a wall (metaphorically), and Mexico paid for it.
US businesses can make lots of money providing the palates of supplies.