On today’s BradCast, we won’t be broken, even by more breaking news than we might have guessed. [Audio link to complete show is posted below.]
We knew we were starting with late breaking news today as California gave President-elect Joe Biden the requisite votes (270) needed to win the Electoral College just minutes before air time. But, because this is the Trump Era, that was quickly superseded by the breaking news just seconds before air time that Donald Trump’s corrupt fixer and Attorney General Bill Barr is now out at the Dept. of Justice after recently conceding there was no massive fraud in the 2020 election that Trump decisively lost.
In other news covered on today’s program on what developed into a surprisingly good news day by and large (at least by 2020 standards)…
- We begin with a fireside story for your holidays called “The President’s New Suit”. Spoiler alert: only his closest courtiers and sycophants (126 House members and, even more shamefully, 19 wingnut state Attorneys General) can see it. Even his stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court saw nothing there on Friday and dismissed the last-ditch effort to disenfranchise millions of American voters in four swing-states that voted for Biden, as filed last week by the indicted Republican Texas Attorney General and Presidential Pardon Hustler Ken Paxton.
- As the nation crosses its latest undescribably grim milestone today of more than 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, Trump continued to spend his time over the weekend lying about about “fraud” in the election that he lost, rather than the lives needlessly lost under his failed pandemic management as the surging crisis continues to smash new records each day. But, on Monday, the first doses of the first approved vaccine for the disease began to be distributed and administered to health workers and elderly Americans in assisted living facilities. It will likely be Spring before much of the general public will have access.
- No matter his lies and failures, Team Trump’s onerous attempts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in Wisconsin — but only in its two most diverse, most Dem-leaning, most African-American counties — continued over the weekend. Two different legal efforts in the Badger State, one in federal court and one in state court, fared no better than his 60 or so previous attempts to steal the election from Biden. Of the two latest cases, the last ones that we know of in WI, neither of which included evidence of fraud, one was dismissed by a Trump-appointed judge in federal court on Saturday, and the other was tossed by a 4 to 3 vote of the rightwing Wisconsin state Supreme Court on Monday. A conservative Justice, once again, voted with the court’s three liberals, and excoriated the Campaign’s attempt to toss more than 200,000 lawfully cast votes in a strategy that one Justice said “smacks of racism”. The ruling came just moments before Wisconsin cast its 10 Electoral College votes for Biden.
- Down in Georgia, where 16 Electoral College votes were cast for Biden today — eventually giving him 306 votes, versus the 304 votes Trump ultimately received in 2016, when he called his victory over Hillary Clinton a “landslide” — former Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams cast her vote as a Democratic Elector and offered some comments on bringing the nation together under the new Democratic President-elect, which we share on today’s show.
- Abrams optimistic remarks come in stark contrast, however, to the violence that erupted in D.C. over the weekend, as “Far Right Paramilitaries Allied With Outgoing President March Through City Vandalizing Black Churches”. That would be the racist Proud Boys MAGA Mob which stole Black Lives Matter banners from historically black churches and burned them on Saturday, as dozens were arrested and several stabbed just hours after Trump’s Marine One flyover of the latest Sore Loser Rally in the nation’s capital. One upside to the racist, rightwing sore-loserism, as we share on today’s program, the wingnut speaker who rallied the crowd to chants of “Destroy the GOP! Destroy the GOP!” before calling for the defeat of incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in their January runoffs against Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for partisan control of the U.S. Senate.
- And though we ran out of time for details, here’s the story of the Michigan state capitol which had to be shut down today for security reasons during the casting of that state’s 16 Electoral College votes for Biden, as a state GOP lawmaker appeared to threaten violence in Lansing this morning.
- Finally, in our remaining few minutes, we open up the phone lines to listeners, one of whom sees the continuing and futile Team Trump lawsuits as “treason”, another who questions the safety of the COVID vaccine, and another who ends today’s show with a rather appropriate song…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
12/14/2020
PREZ-ELECT BIDEN WINS ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE (IN WHAT TRUMP CALLED ‘LANDSLIDE’): ‘BradCast’ 12/14/2020 | Also: BARR OUT AT DOJ; Trump legal fights mopped up, rejected in WI; MAGA Mob sparks weekend violence in D.C., shuts down MI capitol... · · · · · PREZ-ELECT BIDEN WINS ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE (IN WHAT TRUMP CALLED ‘LANDSLIDE’): ‘BradCast’ 12/14/2020 | Also: BARR OUT AT DOJ; Trump legal fights mopped up, rejected in WI; MAGA Mob sparks weekend violence in D.C., shuts down MI capitol...
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Hello Brad, it’s been a while since I’ve followed you. It goes back to when GWBush stole the election from both Gore and Kerry. You and Bev Harris talked nonstop about computer voting machines being hackable and that the will of the people was at stake. I was a true fan and remember reading the comment section , so long I’d have to stop. Well we now have the same issue again but this time it’s the Republican voters that are being robbed through computer voting. Where are you now? Don’t care about the true will of the people! Willing to hide the comments because in this fight the wrong man wins. Were you always just a shill and voter integrity was you scam for money. I want my money back.
“Alvin Rorison” said @2:
Where is your evidence that “The Republican voters…are being robbed through computer voting”? I’ve followed the claims very closely, and yet there is no evidence to support them. If you’ve followed me so long, surely you know that I require evidence to support assertions.
Of course, for years now, Republicans have been doing everything possible to make sure that computer voting and tabulations were used, and to prevent any kind of security for those systems. Why would they complain now?
I care very much. I’ve been here all along. I’ve never heard of you. You’ve never left a comment here before…unless, of course, you are using another fake name. Again.
We don’t hide comments. Why would you say that?
The voter’s have plenty of integrity. It’s the election systems that don’t. Since you’ve never given me ANY money, sorry, I can’t return it to ya. (Unless, of course, you are using a different name, in violation of our rules again. You wouldn’t do that now, would ya, boss?)