It’s special coverage of three different historic events — all at once, somehow — on today’s BradCast. It wasn’t easy, but it was a very lively show in dark times nonetheless! [Audio link to show is posted below.]
We’re joined today by old friends who, unlike the corporate media pundits and professional political operatives and academic geniuses, have been right over and over and over, for years, about pretty much everything. For some reason today, that is very comforting. HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and TOM SULLIVAN, both of whom can be found each day writing at Digby’s Hullabaloo, work through all of today’s nightmares with us. Parton, an award-winning opinion journalist can also be found as a regular contributor to Salon. Sullivan, a North Carolina writer and resident is also a grassroots organizer in the state, whose “For the Win” training guide for countywide Get Out the Vote operations should be required reading for every so-called “professional” Democratic party strategist in the nation.
First up on today program, it’s the ugly, bitter State of the Union address, filled with demostrable lies and cheap, offensive TV game show stunts, as delivered by Donald Trump on Tuesday night, and literally shredded thereafter by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Next, it’s the shameful historic acquittal by cowed Republicans in the U.S. Senate, just before airtime on Wednesday, of the proven-guilty President on both of his Articles of Impeachment, and some Senators from both side of the aisle who deserve notice for their votes.
Finally, it’s the continuing fallout from the disastrous use of untested, secretly-developed, non-transparent technology — despite warnings from experts (and, yes, us) — in Iowa’s Democratic Caucuses on Monday, where we still only have partial results reported by the Iowa Democratic Party as of today. We discuss that disaster and who may be the winners and losers from Monday’s contest, along with all of the other disasters and what they should mean for the candidates, the 2020 nominating cycle and the critical, last chance general election now on America’s horizon…
Lulu Friesdat: We found #RoundingErrors in 30% of the precinct math worksheets that we examined from the #IowaCaucus. Each “rounding error” gave one extra delegate to a candidate, over 50% of the time the extra delegate went to @PeteButtigieg
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Desi, a lot of folks put their butts (trial pending still) on the line to defend the Venezuelan embassy. When U.S Sanctions are killing thousands there. I hope you recognize who the real authoritarians are. We still love yah!
A new word has entered the popular lexicon.
To Guaido (verb) to falsely proclaim oneself as the winner, as in “Buttigieg tried to Guaido the Iowa state caucus.”
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